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

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[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Some indie games and AAA games from 10 years ago should be fine.

That being said, SSD costs are low enough these days that you should be able to play off an SSD.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I know, thing is I have a lonely, sad 1TB HDD from 2008 that somehow still works and I thought it would be a shame to not game with it. I want it to spend its final years gaming with me. I know, I'm weird. Once it dies, I'l probably get a SATA SSD. I have an M.2 SSD but it's almost full.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'd use it for data storage. Movies, games, backups.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I don't want to store things I care about on a drive that old in case it dies. Steam games are a different story. I can just redownload them. I have plenty of storage dedicated to media as it is anyway.

[–] reversedposterior@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Agree with this. SSDs are cheap enough these days that there's no point living with the disadvantages of a hard disk any more apart from in cases where you won't notice the difference at all (i.e long term storage with not many reads and writes)

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

True, but the point was to use this particular HDD for gaming.