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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 20 days ago

Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?

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Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 20 days ago

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

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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.

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