Well that’s just not factually accurate. The accurate thing would be it causes so little wear and tear it might as well not count on the memory chips. But using ANYTHING causes wear and tear to build up eventually and a SSD has more points of failure than just reading and writing to the memory.
In case someone’s wondering about cheaper options; Samsung 980 500GB NVMe M.2 costs as much as £32 GBP (~40 USD), and 1 TB version is £52 GBP (~65 USD).
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Ssd required?
It shouldn’t be a surprise. Games load assets on the fly to save memory, which would be terrible on a hard drive.
Not great for an SSD either since they have finite read/writes too.
Solid State Drives have no read limits, only write limits.
Oh wow that made a ton of changes to my statement! Same difference.
No it’s not the same. Playing games, or loading assets causes no wear for the SSD.
Well that’s just not factually accurate. The accurate thing would be it causes so little wear and tear it might as well not count on the memory chips. But using ANYTHING causes wear and tear to build up eventually and a SSD has more points of failure than just reading and writing to the memory.
Nonsense. NAND flash memory is non-volatile and can be read from indefinitely without wearing out.
You can’t read I said the SSD has more points of failure than the memory. And those points of failure go up the longer it’s used.
SSD has been a best practice requirement for a long ass time anyway. SSDs are cheap now.
I just bought an 8TB chonker last week for $340. It comfortably fit my entire Steam library of 19 years with room to spare.
A year ago this same drive was still averaging ~$650-$700.
In case someone’s wondering about cheaper options; Samsung 980 500GB NVMe M.2 costs as much as £32 GBP (~40 USD), and 1 TB version is £52 GBP (~65 USD).
Bought a Samsung nvme M2 that was 2 TB for like $90.
What year do you live in?
I still install all my games on hdd. Works fine.
Well some games now rely on the speeds of SSDs since the newest consoles have them, so that HDD does not in fact work fine anymore.