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You’re going to need an SSD in order to play Final Fantasy 16 on PC (www.techradar.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can get a 10TB HDD for under 250€, and there are some technical advantages. For example, if you have an ssd lying around unpowered, it will lose data much quicker than magnetic storage

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You run programs or operating systems off that 10 TB HDD?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have a 6TB one and yes mostly for single player games since loading screens typically aren't that big of a deal. OS always goes on your best drive and you know you can have multiple drives in a singular pc since you are sort of implying you can only have 1 drive.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well good on you for not caring about load times, but for FF16 that 6TB won't cut it. Moving forward platter drives will only be useful for storage, hell I'd argue that's how it is now.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I mean games that finally make use of SSD speeds sure but most people have games before SSDs were standardized. Hell most people's libraries are filled with those. Hell you don't even need NVME drives since most games never make use of them. Until games start actually using direct storage the difference between sata and NVME are very minor for games at least.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The PS4 has an HDD, and only partway through its life upgraded from SATA2 to SATA3 even.

    Personally, I've got my boot drive, plus a 2TB SATA3 SSD for games that benefit from it's plus a 12TB HDD for the vast majority of games that don't need it (or to temporarily store games- it's faster to move them between drives than re-doenload them). So if I was planning on playing this games hearing this from the devs would let me know I need to free up some SSD space.

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