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Forums - PC Discussion - PC Gamers: Are You Planning on Upgrading your SSD's/HDDs?

 

Where do you keep your Games?

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 highly doubt that developers would alienate a large portion of their potential audience. Many people are still using regular HDDs or possibly a small SATA SSD to go along with it.

I have GEN3.0 nvme drives in both my desktop and my gaming laptop. Desktop (3900X/X570 Aorus Master) has a 1TB Samsung 960 Pro and 960GB Corsair MP510 and my 15" Razer Blade Advanced also has a 1TB 960 Pro. My X570 motherboard is capable of GEN4.0 SSDs, but I have no reason to upgrade. I still have my old (former boot drive) 480GB Sandisk Extreme Pro SATA SSD in there as well.

I'm not sure why anybody would stick to a conventional HDD when even Sata SSDs are a huge upgrade over them as a boot drive. For storage a regular HDD is fine. I even threw a 120GB SSD in a retro PC (Win98SE/Pentium 3) that I'm putting together (with an IDE->SATA adapter) and it makes it super responsive!

It's strange that Samsung is calling their EVO drives, MLC. The EVO line is marketed at a lower price using TLC compared to MLC in the PRO line.

Last edited by smbu2000 - on 20 May 2020


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