Got two 1TB SSD’s for OS and games and two 2TB HDDs for storing crap…
In addition to some external ones. One 8TB and two 4TB I think.
I’m good for a while, but will probably buy larger SSDs in the future when the price drops a bit.
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well i have ssd since 2012 and back then it was just 60 GB one for OS alone, but the prices heavily declined over time and now 480 GB one costs less than this 60 GB one in 2012 did.
I decided to get a better SSD somewhere in WOD when i was switching through 10 different characters to send them out on missions, farming gold. This part alone cut down the total loading screen time by significant amount, to the point where rotating all your alts took just about 5 minutes.
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I have 2x 500GB ssd + 250GB ssd for windows, plus 1TB hdd for other crap. So i am fine , bought 3800x ryzen and planing to replace my 1060gtx with rtx 2060or 2070.
My laptop had an HDD. It now has an SSD. So you can most certainly change your laptops drive
M8 I live in Crete. We have like 600k residents and are Greeces largest island. We aren’t exactly a “remote” island 
. Malta is an entire country and has less residents than we do
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Is an external SSD fine to use? I simply dont have the room inside my PC for anything else and I use both my current HDD’s so is it viable to buy an external and just use that for WoW?
Popgligor answered this further up
U dont have room, means u dont have free slots, or u literaly have no room where to place it, like u have full case?
Because, i believe, there is solution for both cases.
This is why Type A USB is slowly becoming obsolete. It’ll all be Type C in a few years.
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For everyone who needs to upgrade to an SSD, get an NVMe instead(If you have an M2 slot in your computer that is), much faster than that slowpoke SSD =)
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The main thing is that you need to connect it to an USB 3.0 port. It is the same USB port as the older versions, except it is much faster. It came out in 2008, USB 3 is not cutting edge technology. You probably have at least a few of them. I think in the beginning, USB 3 ports on PCs were blue, as opposed to the USB 1 and 2 ports which were black, but that changed with time. As for cables - if it’s not some cheap brand, I’d assume the cables the external SSD comes with will be good. It’ll say in the device manager if the USB ports on your PC are USB 3.0. If it says anything else, you probably have USB 2 or 1 ports.
Have SSDs got past the hardware degradation issue yet?
Nah, and they never will, but the issue is very much overblown. In order to wear down an SSD in 4-5 years, you need to write A LOT on it. More than anyone really does. Also, the degradation only prevents your ability to write to the SSD, but not the ability for data to be read from it. The main problem is that in the past years we’ve seen some very cheap SSDs that use chips and circuits that wear out in 3-4 years easily, but right now, even good SSDs that will last 7-8 years are very cheap. But this… fear is why I keep all my work files on an HDD. My OS, and my games are on SSDs, but everything valuable is on a good ole HDD. And I think a 7-8 year lifespan for a PC part is respectable.
SSDs are entering the new consoles, and as with everything in consoles, they’ll become the benchmark for games. Most games on PC already are kinda designed for SSDs but you can expect games to not run at all on HDDs soon.
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Thanks for the answer…I had heard that it helps to have a larger capacity SSD as well, since this apparently gives more resilience…been waiting for prices to come down on good quality 1TB SSDs, so I can buy two (one as a spare)…kinda grinds my gears to get 1TB SSD, at same price as 4TB HDD
I dont use an SSD in BFA and wont use an SSD in SL , dont see why I would bother, I can take loading screens taking a few seconds longer
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I honestly don’t know why anyone would still be using a mechanical hard drive at this point, unless you’re on the poverty line then fair enough. I bought my first SSD in 2009, back when they were new and expensive but these days? Cheap as chips, I recently bought a 1TB m.2 SSD for £70 on sale from Amazon. It’s by far the biggest upgrade you can make to your PC and well worth investing in.
Not that I’m questioning the video but the only time my HDD takes that long to load is first time logging in that day, otherwise it’s sub 10 seconds. Furniture and stuff on the other hand tends to slowly load in after the loading screen when I teleport to a different continent.
I’ll upgrade when the HDD starts to feel annoyingly slow and so far it’s been chugging along just fine. I have an SSD in my laptop and it’s nice but if I didn’t have a couple extra seconds to spare then I wouldn’t be playing.
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Again do not spread false information.
The prices have not dramatically dropped on ssd in every nation in europe.
I have given prices where i am the
So stop the lies.
If you have to choose a 2 or 4 terrabyte harddrive but hhd or 250gigabyte harddrive in ssd you know damn well you take the bigger size.
yes they are i can buy a 500bg M.2 for the SAME PRICE as the cheapest 500gb SSD.
Now i can use that but many people can not use m.2 because of there motherboards.
Stop just claiming SSD has suddenly become cheap. It is just factually not true for a whole lot of people.
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Will be a shock for me if the game won’t run on HDD, but since it is clearly stated that SDD is a minimum I am kinda scared I would have to learn how to upgrade my Lenovo legion tower ouch
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Mmm new pc just 500 but is empty… so lets the game begin!