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SocialistGamer 04/07/20 7:03:54 PM #1:	Are regular external HDDs still good for storing Steam games on? --- Capcom is the best developer ever! Steam ID: SocialistGamer92 <cite>SocialistGamer posted [p:936970317] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Are regular external HDDs still good for storing Steam games on?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MarthGoomba 04/07/20 7:05:14 PM #2:	HDDs are irrelevant in 2020 <cite>MarthGoomba posted [p:936970382] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>HDDs are irrelevant in 2020</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Darmik 04/07/20 7:12:43 PM #3:	Sure. If they disconnect you might need to rescan them back to the library. --- Kind Regards, Darmik <cite>Darmik posted [p:936970760] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Sure. If they disconnect you might need to rescan them back to the library. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
billcom6 04/07/20 7:13:42 PM #4:	if its usb 3 --- //constant loneliness// --- Steam and Fortnite: billcom6 My Teams: The Ohio State Buckeyes, New York Yankees, Buffalo Bills, The CBJ, Cavs <cite>billcom6 posted [p:936970809] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>if its usb 3 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
645AR 04/07/20 7:14:05 PM #5:	no youre going to be moving it to an ssd anyway so theres really no time saved and if you play it off an external its going to be slower than an internal HDD use externals for read only memories and watching movies and stuff --- sig <cite>645AR posted [p:936970827] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>no youre going to be moving it to an ssd anyway so theres really no time saved and if you play it off an external its going to be slower than an internal HDD use externals for read only memories and watching movies and stuff</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Alucard188 04/07/20 7:14:11 PM #6:	MarthGoomba posted... HDDs are irrelevant in 2020 Wrong. Try again. --- Face it Cloud is a gaming icon and has appered in lots of games while mario has only appeared in 2 games sunshine and 64~xSlashbomBx <cite>Alucard188 posted [p:936970831] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted... </cite> <quote>HDDs are irrelevant in 2020</quote> Wrong. Try again. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
645AR 04/07/20 7:14:59 PM #7:	Alucard188 posted... Wrong. Try again. depends what you use them for anything that youre going to be using all the time or playing modern video games, then it pretty much is --- sig <cite>645AR posted [p:936970873] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Alucard188 posted...</cite> <quote> Wrong. Try again. </quote> depends what you use them for anything that youre going to be using all the time or playing modern video games, then it pretty much is</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MarthGoomba 04/07/20 7:21:48 PM #9:	Alucard188 posted... Wrong. Try again. It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC <cite>MarthGoomba posted [p:936971268] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Alucard188 posted...</cite> <quote>Wrong. Try again.</quote> It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Buzz Killjoy 04/07/20 7:25:46 PM #10:	MarthGoomba posted... It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC How about my servers or my VM hosts or my storage arrays? --- *Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?* <cite>Buzz Killjoy posted [p:936971480] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted... </cite> <quote>It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC</quote> How about my servers or my VM hosts or my storage arrays? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Master_Bass 04/07/20 7:29:45 PM #11:	MarthGoomba posted... It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC Sure there is. You need space and you need it in capacities that SSDs don't provide or don't provide at a reasonable price. A RAID 0 array isn't that bad to play games on either. I have 2 5TB drives in RAID 0 and it's plenty fast for most games. For the few that do really need SSDs, like Fallout 4, I throw them on my NVMe drive. --- Many Bothans died to bring you this post. <cite>Master_Bass posted [p:936971688] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted... </cite> <quote>It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC</quote>Sure there is. You need space and you need it in capacities that SSDs don't provide or don't provide at a reasonable price. A RAID 0 array isn't that bad to play games on either. I have 2 5TB drives in RAID 0 and it's plenty fast for most games. For the few that do really need SSDs, like Fallout 4, I throw them on my NVMe drive. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
645AR 04/07/20 7:31:55 PM #12:	tbqh raid is so 2009 i use drivepool and pick what I want to duplicate and still have the same high speeds --- sig <cite>645AR posted [p:936971819] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>tbqh raid is so 2009 i use drivepool and pick what I want to duplicate and still have the same high speeds</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DarthAragorn 04/07/20 7:34:51 PM #13:	That's gonna depend on the game Linear older stuff like Half-Life 2 and indie games? Probably fine. Open world games and/or games with lots of loading screens? Nah, 7200 RPM HDD is bare minimum for that and external drives don't usually reach that speed without having their own power supply, so internal it is generally. <cite>DarthAragorn posted [p:936971968] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>That's gonna depend on the game Linear older stuff like Half-Life 2 and indie games? Probably fine. Open world games and/or games with lots of loading screens? Nah, 7200 RPM HDD is bare minimum for that and external drives don't usually reach that speed without having their own power supply, so internal it is generally.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MarthGoomba 04/07/20 7:35:03 PM #14:	Master_Bass posted... Sure there is. You need space and you need it in capacities that SSDs don't provide or don't provide at a reasonable price. A RAID 0 array isn't that bad to play games on either. I have 2 5TB drives in RAID 0 and it's plenty fast for most games. For the few that do really need SSDs, like Fallout 4, I throw them on my NVMe drive. You don't need so many TBs of games installed all the time It's fine to delete things you aren't going to be playing anytime soon. 2TB is pretty generous for what you're actually playing. 1TB will serve most people well. <cite>MarthGoomba posted [p:936971979] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Master_Bass posted...</cite> <quote>Sure there is. You need space and you need it in capacities that SSDs don't provide or don't provide at a reasonable price. A RAID 0 array isn't that bad to play games on either. I have 2 5TB drives in RAID 0 and it's plenty fast for most games. For the few that do really need SSDs, like Fallout 4, I throw them on my NVMe drive. </quote> You don't need so many TBs of games installed all the time It's fine to delete things you aren't going to be playing anytime soon. 2TB is pretty generous for what you're actually playing. 1TB will serve most people well.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Master_Bass 04/07/20 7:47:58 PM #15:	MarthGoomba posted... You don't need so many TBs of games installed all the time It's fine to delete things you aren't going to be playing anytime soon. 2TB is pretty generous for what you're actually playing. 1TB will serve most people well. I got the drives on sale, so why waste time redownloading games? Yeah, it's not required but it's nice. I'm also a data hoarder and have a bunch of other drives of varying space. I don't need an SSD to store files on and they don't commonly come big enough. --- Many Bothans died to bring you this post. <cite>Master_Bass posted [p:936972723] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted... </cite> <quote>You don't need so many TBs of games installed all the time It's fine to delete things you aren't going to be playing anytime soon. 2TB is pretty generous for what you're actually playing. 1TB will serve most people well.</quote>I got the drives on sale, so why waste time redownloading games? Yeah, it's not required but it's nice. I'm also a data hoarder and have a bunch of other drives of varying space. I don't need an SSD to store files on and they don't commonly come big enough. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Alucard188 04/07/20 8:34:39 PM #16:	MarthGoomba posted... It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC A 2TB HDD is cheaper than a 2TB SSD, and is good for mass storage. --- Face it Cloud is a gaming icon and has appered in lots of games while mario has only appeared in 2 games sunshine and 64~xSlashbomBx <cite>Alucard188 posted [p:936975416] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted... </cite> <quote>It's not all that expensive to get a few TBs in SSDs these days. There is really no reason to be putting such slow archaic hardware in your PC</quote> A 2TB HDD is cheaper than a 2TB SSD, and is good for mass storage. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MarthGoomba 04/07/20 8:48:08 PM #17:	Alucard188 posted... A 2TB HDD is cheaper than a 2TB SSD, and is good for mass storage. Outdated, slow hardware that is more prone to failing is always cheaper <cite>MarthGoomba posted [p:936976217] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Alucard188 posted...</cite> <quote>A 2TB HDD is cheaper than a 2TB SSD, and is good for mass storage.</quote> Outdated, slow hardware that is more prone to failing is always cheaper</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
645AR 04/07/20 9:36:14 PM #18:	MarthGoomba posted... Outdated, slow hardware that is more prone to failing is always cheaper depends what kind of HDD western digitals are reliable af --- sig <cite>645AR posted [p:936978797] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>MarthGoomba posted...</cite> <quote> Outdated, slow hardware that is more prone to failing is always cheaper</quote> depends what kind of HDD western digitals are reliable af</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Alucard188 04/08/20 9:35:09 AM #19:	645AR posted... depends what kind of HDD western digitals are reliable af I've had my 2TB Seagate Barracuda for 4 years with no issues. Failure rates of hard drives are always overstated. --- Face it Cloud is a gaming icon and has appered in lots of games while mario has only appeared in 2 games sunshine and 64~xSlashbomBx <cite>Alucard188 posted [p:937000752] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>645AR posted... </cite> <quote>depends what kind of HDD western digitals are reliable af</quote> I've had my 2TB Seagate Barracuda for 4 years with no issues. Failure rates of hard drives are always overstated. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
645AR 04/08/20 11:23:50 AM #20:	Alucard188 posted... I've had my 2TB Seagate Barracuda for 4 years with no issues. Failure rates of hard drives are always overstated. seagates are good too everything else tho are pretty trash --- sig <cite>645AR posted [p:937005376] in Stupid PC ... [t:78554925]...</cite> <quote>Alucard188 posted...</cite> <quote> I've had my 2TB Seagate Barracuda for 4 years with no issues. Failure rates of hard drives are always overstated. </quote> seagates are good too everything else tho are pretty trash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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