daggermoon@lemmy.world to

PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months ago

Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?

31

Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?

daggermoon@lemmy.world to

PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months ago

Like obviously not for newer cutting edge games but for newer indie games and older AAA games?

Chat

KiwiTB@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
2·
7 months ago
Old games and indie are mostly fine. Anything newer or open world and you’ll need a SSD or a level 2 cache at least. NOTE: this only applies to CMR hard disks, SMR hard disks are unusable.

PC Gaming@lemmy.ca

pcgaming@lemmy.ca

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !pcgaming@lemmy.ca

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let’s Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

571 users / day
1.94K users / week
5.41K users / month
11K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
13K subscribers
6.7K Posts
53.3K Comments
Modlog