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You’re going to need an SSD in order to play Final Fantasy 16 on PC (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

ITT: people bragging about the 32 GB they paid $700 for so Oblivion would load faster.

If you dropped five grand on a PC a decade ago, yeah, of course you've used SSDs exclusively. Each gigabyte only cost two bucks! Meanwhile, on hard disks: ten cents.

If you built a PC three years ago, SSDs were finally approaching that ten-cent figure... while HDDs were pushing two cents per gigabyte.

The gap is closing. The low end for SSDs is trivially affordable, now. Key word: now. There's no reason not to have your OS on SSD, now. And the capacity of spinning plates can only be pushed so far within a 3.5" module. There will be a point where there's no reason to buy new disks. But if I want another dozen terabytes for network storage, like hell I'm gonna pony up for neon-spangled M.2 drives. $200 versus $600... how badly do I need those milliseconds?