2TB HDDs, what is this the 2010s?
Get a 1TB SSD for OS/games and 10TB HDD for media/cold storage. Neither are particularly pricey these days.
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impudentmortal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Option 1 will work for a while. The only thing you will need for the near-ish future is larger storage. Games nowadays take up so much space and 1 TB won’t last long. Would recommend buying a 2-3TB HDD while you’re at Microcenter. They may even be able to install it for you
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I guess 2 TB is also relatively small. However, considering that OP only mentioned one specific game their child wanted to play, I think it’s not an unreasonable amount of storage.
If their kid also wants to do things like download/edit movies, graphic arts, or other storage heavy activities then of course they could go for a larger storage. It all depends on their needs and budget.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
2TB is SSD range now, is my point. Buying an HDD that small is kinda pointless. It’s massively outclassed in both speed and capacity by modern drives. It will be replaced quickly and end up being more expensive in the long run for more effort and a subpar experience.
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I replied to another comment saying I’m surprised how cheap lower capacity SSDs have become. It was only like $100 more than a comparable HDD.
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Got it, thanks!
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Please, don’t buy an extra HDD, buy an SSD. The difference is that an HDD has a physical spinning disc inside of it (picture yourself a CD) while an SSD doesn’t rely on physical moving components like that, which makes them literally 10 or more times faster. Ifbyou hage an old computer that is slow it’s very likely that it has an HDD and swapping it out for an SSD would make it feel new. Please don’t fall into the “HDDs are a bit cheaper” trap, it’s not worth it especially with those two machines
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Very helpful, thank you!
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve upgraded the storage on my PC so I am surprised at how much cheaper SSDs have gotten. The fact that a 4TB WD Black SSD is only $100 more than the HDD one is pretty crazy to me. With that in mind, if OP is willing to spend more money, than the SSD is definitely the way to go.
One thing to note, however, is that Option 1 only has expansions for 3.5" storage (i.e. HDDs). So if OP does decide to go with Option 1, they’ll have to take the 1TB SSD it comes with and replace it with whatever they buy, rather than adding additional storage. Option 2, however, only has m.2 expandable storage so using only SSDs for that computer would be a lot easier.
Forester@pawb.social 3 days ago
you would not want a hard disk drive as reading data off of that for vastly slow the system performance HDD
A solid state drive would be recommended. SSD. Preferably an SSD that has caching.
Dhs92@piefed.social 2 days ago
Most modern games will barely run when installed on a HDD as well. Especially open world games