How will new games work on old HDD?

[undertaker086]

Hi I have old HDD, I think its 10+ years old and its been sitting in my case for long time, I thought it was broken but I dont know why I kept it in case and few days ago I decided to throw it out but I was curious, I wanted to give him one last chance and BOOM, ITS WORKS. So now I have 300gb free storage which is great especially because I have only one SSD Samsung 750 EVO 250gb and since I play games like BF1, Overwatch, World of Tanks, CS, Need for Speed, etc I dont have enough space on SSD so what am I doing ( probably stupid ), I download 2-3 games from my libraries and play them 3-4 months and then I uninstall them and download 2-3 other and play another 2-3 months and that is the circle, but with 300gb of free space on old HDD I can add more games and play them in same time, but I dont know how will they behave with, I think slow, old HDD. I think to put there BF1 and CS, so if anyone knows how will they perform on old HDD (10+ years I think brand is WD) can please provide me with answer I would appreciate it.

SPECS:

MB: Asus B250G-GAMING
CPU: Intel i5-6500 3.2 GHz
GPU: Asus GTX1060 DUAL-series 6GB OC
RAM: 2x8GB Kingston DDR4 2133 MHz
SSD: Samsung 750 EVO 250GB
PS: ThermalTake 630w
and new (old) HDD 300GB I think its WD brand

 

[dalaran]

Should be fine, loading time will be longer than on the SSD but other than that you should be fine and if all you put on it is games you don't have to worry too much about reliability, if it ever dies you can download the games again, I see no good reason not to try and use the drive for games. Also note that if you're using steam you can have a steam library on both drives and moves the games from one to the other quite easily.

 

[undertaker086]

@dalaran

Thx for reply, I will try, but I dont know why I like to use libraries from game developers (probably stupid), I will share my expirience I plan to put BF1 and World of Tanks.

 

[undertaker086]

Well, I installed and played World of Tanks and result is that I enter the game 5 sec from beginning with textures still have to load details but in-game I go from 70 fps to 120fps, so think it would be good for less demanding games like WOT, CS, etc..