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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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[–] 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.