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HDD (Not planning to upgrade) 5 17.86%
 
HDD (Planning to Upgrade) 4 14.29%
 
Sata SSD (Not Planning to Upgrade) 6 21.43%
 
Sata SSD (Planning to Upgrade) 3 10.71%
 
PCI Gen 3.0 SSD (Not planning to Upgrade) 5 17.86%
 
PCI Gen 3.0 SSD (planning to Upgrade) 0 0%
 
PCI Gen 4.0 SSD (Not planning to Upgrade) 2 7.14%
 
PCI Gen 4.0 SSD (planning to Upgrade) 3 10.71%
 
Total:28

I want to put a SSD on my regular desktop.



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I planned to replace some of the main components of my PC later this year but, due to some unnexpected expenses, that will have to wait until next year.

The plan was to upgrade to a mid-range NVMe drive for OS and other software (probably a 500GB drive as the 250GB SSD I have now is too small) and a large, maybe 2TB SSD for games.

Between that most GPUs nowadays have 8GB of VRAM and, say, another 16GB of system RAM (much faster than any SSD), most devs shouldn't have problems running their games on such kind of PC.



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Ka-pi96 said:
Nope. I have 1 500GB and 1 250GB SSD and see no reason to upgrade those anytime soon. Very much doubt any game is going to be too big to fit on the 500 GB one, especially the kind of games I play. I've only played 2 games over 10GB so far this year.

In general, the larger the game, the smaller the play time, in my case. There are exceptions like GT Sport and Death Stranding. Yet usually those huge games are single player story driven games which are great, but finish quickly and delete.

I just want next gen to start already, new vr headset, next gen vr games, no more move hopefully. And maybe my decision on what game to pop on won't be influenced by the loading times anymore. For that PC needs to start loading smarter as well, since even with a fast SSD loading times are still too long imo.



2 of my drives are 7 years old so yes.



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Due to my old PC's death, I must replace it earlier than I hoped, so I'm building a cheap temporary upgrade. Hence I'll stick to HDD's for now, and when SSD's with large capacity will be cheaper, and the tech will allow a larger number of rewrites before failure, I'll add to my next major upgrade a SSD too, using it for the things that it can improve the most, while HDD storage will be for everything that doesn't need the largest possible boost.



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Does building a new rig count? My old one still runs on a HDD, the new one is supposed to get 2 SSD (1 480 GB-1TB NVMe for the OS and a second one, either 1-2 TB NVMe or SATA, for the bulk of the data (and a 4-8 TB WD Red for all the pictures, videos, installers, BOINC, and so on - though that could become an external drive)



I've only got one HDD and that's 2tb, so that's the only thing holding me back in the storage dept. Other than that I've got 4 other SSD's, with the OS being on one of them. Only parts I'll need to upgrade down the line are the CPU/GPU and probably a 32gb kit of RAM, though I might just wait for the next memory leap, so I can get more out of it for my vid editing.



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I'm running first gen Ryzen 7 with crucial 1TB SSD. I can't remember the speeds but it's more than fast enough for me and I've been running it for three years.

I don't think developers are gonna abandon HDDs since all it means is longer load times.



Happy with my current SSD. It's not holding me back yet.

Probably upgrade when PCI-E 5.0 nVME drives happen next year.



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I guess I will upgrade to a nVME when I build my next PC, it might be in 1 year, might be in 5.



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