I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2021-06-21.

  • Sharp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    still use a hdd to store movies, tv shows, music, video game clips, ISO files, ROMS and pictures from my phone, hdd’s are still great in 2023 for things besides from operating systems programs or games, and they are cheap too

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      1 year ago

      even really old drives can be used as removable storage if you have a sata dock

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      …good for games too, especially huge-ass ones. mechanical drives are cheap af.
      while ssds are faster, difference in loading times and tile pop-in is rarely significant enough… unless you’re playing a heavily modded game (and especially if it’s Minecraft, you need an ssd unless you want to spend 40 minutes on the loading screen)

      • Sharp@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        yeah 100%

        older games or more simple ones work just fine on hdds, but of course ssds give you better loading times most of the time