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Tachikoma said:
dane007 said:


Noob question here. Whats a mechanical HDD? Are those like the hybrid HDD i keep seeing?

mechanical is just a standard hard drive, (not ssd or hybrid), you can get them in rediculously large capacities for cheap now, i picked up a 3tb drive the other day for about $60.

It is best to use one to install your games and store your downloads and stuff on, rather than use the SSD, installing games to an SSD is only really useful for a small selection of games, the rest wont show much improvement in operation at all.

For your average game, install to the normal hard drive

For games that use heavy streaming from hdd assets, skyrim, gta, just cause, far cry, etc, install to SSD

Steam now lets you pick different drives to install games to now so it should be a pain free process.

I got a 3tb one. I wish they cost that low but sadly nz price are marked up hugely.  Are the  hybrid ones any good? Like are they alot faster then normal HDD?