Question Just one game is over 100GB, should I have to buy a 2TB SSD ?
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Because of a bit lower price and if you want to just ad it to other one,
Also no meed to have more storage until your SSD gets full over 3/4. and slows down much.
You decide: Fast internet or lots of offline storage. Or medium internet and lots of offline storage. Gamer might want fast internet for low latency anyway as well as large downloads once or twice a month.
if you can download your games in a reasonable time frame then you don't need much offline storage. Probably 4 or 5 large games installed at once is more than you could play all day or all week for that matter and I should think that 1tb + fast internet is very manageable.
Offline storage makes it convenient to reinstall like a jukebox more immediately but you could also opt to only offline store large games.
And you might also want to back up your offline storage so network attached storage so once you're done thinking about it have quadruple redundancy: The online store you can redownload from , the game installed on your disk, the offline storage and the offline storage backup.
It depends if you just want fast internet anyway. Slower downloads once a week or twice a month or something with plenty of storage is probably cheaper since drives are probably cheaper than your internet connection if you only spend 100 or 200 a year and they last 3-5 years under warranty it's way cheaper than 20 a month internet /240 a year or should I say 200 for 5 years or even 400 for five years of more backup sol'n is cheaper than 2000 for 5 years of fast internet. So a slow or bearable medium connection plus offline storage is more probably somewhere in the range of an optimal price/performance ratio.
where a fast internet connection only is way more expensive than a medium connection and offline storage. In a perfect world Fast internet that was cheap as dirt would be better. Then you'd only have dual redundancy: The game installed on disk plus the online store.
But since internet connections go down and drives fail you might even want a spare backup internet connection if 100% uptime was your goal.
It all depends on what you want, what you need or what you can manage with.
I'm coming from a different set of circumstances. 8 year ago internet deals were bog standard and drives more expensive. Well the internet deals are probably still bog standard and drives are cheaper but if you shared a house and only paid a fraction, the calculus could be a bit different.
I have a 256gb os drive, and 2 256gb sata 3 drives so I bought a new one mid-way through the warranty of the other, a 1tb hdd and another 320gb hdd so bought in dribs and drabs over 8 years that's 2 terabytes about 2/3rds full with about 80 games in storage of varying sizes from the days when data wasn't quite so huge plus more that I could download on demand if I fancied it and the time to renew my isp contract is rolling around so I could stand to get another 2tb storage drive or two for another backup and maybe not need so much if the internet connection speed is what's advertised.
if you can download your games in a reasonable time frame then you don't need much offline storage. Probably 4 or 5 large games installed at once is more than you could play all day or all week for that matter and I should think that 1tb + fast internet is very manageable.
Offline storage makes it convenient to reinstall like a jukebox more immediately but you could also opt to only offline store large games.
And you might also want to back up your offline storage so network attached storage so once you're done thinking about it have quadruple redundancy: The online store you can redownload from , the game installed on your disk, the offline storage and the offline storage backup.
It depends if you just want fast internet anyway. Slower downloads once a week or twice a month or something with plenty of storage is probably cheaper since drives are probably cheaper than your internet connection if you only spend 100 or 200 a year and they last 3-5 years under warranty it's way cheaper than 20 a month internet /240 a year or should I say 200 for 5 years or even 400 for five years of more backup sol'n is cheaper than 2000 for 5 years of fast internet. So a slow or bearable medium connection plus offline storage is more probably somewhere in the range of an optimal price/performance ratio.
where a fast internet connection only is way more expensive than a medium connection and offline storage. In a perfect world Fast internet that was cheap as dirt would be better. Then you'd only have dual redundancy: The game installed on disk plus the online store.
But since internet connections go down and drives fail you might even want a spare backup internet connection if 100% uptime was your goal.
It all depends on what you want, what you need or what you can manage with.
I'm coming from a different set of circumstances. 8 year ago internet deals were bog standard and drives more expensive. Well the internet deals are probably still bog standard and drives are cheaper but if you shared a house and only paid a fraction, the calculus could be a bit different.
I have a 256gb os drive, and 2 256gb sata 3 drives so I bought a new one mid-way through the warranty of the other, a 1tb hdd and another 320gb hdd so bought in dribs and drabs over 8 years that's 2 terabytes about 2/3rds full with about 80 games in storage of varying sizes from the days when data wasn't quite so huge plus more that I could download on demand if I fancied it and the time to renew my isp contract is rolling around so I could stand to get another 2tb storage drive or two for another backup and maybe not need so much if the internet connection speed is what's advertised.
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Cost, mostly.
But most uses don't really benefit with NVMe vs SATA III.
And don't sacrifice quality for speed.
If they are of equal price per GB, and you have available M.2 ports, sure...get another NVMe.
Otherwise, size and quality.
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i would recommend you buy the biggest drive you can afford.
I have seen articles that tell you how to put games and games clients onto a portable ssd , they are a lot cheaper than internal ones , that said , i once made that comment on here and some users said that putting games on an external ssd was not recommended.
20 years ago my first pc only had a 40 gb hard drive , if i still had it their would not be many games that would fit the hard drive
I have seen articles that tell you how to put games and games clients onto a portable ssd , they are a lot cheaper than internal ones , that said , i once made that comment on here and some users said that putting games on an external ssd was not recommended.
20 years ago my first pc only had a 40 gb hard drive , if i still had it their would not be many games that would fit the hard drive
what the internet speed has to do with it -because of the time it takes to install things. If you can download 100gb in 8hrs or something rather than 4 days that's a bit more bearable though it only takes 10-20 mins to install from offline storage. The point is you can redownload most games you've purchased from online stores and you couldn't play more than a couple of games in a day if you wanted to so you could save on storage. They already have oodles of backups and storage on their server farms so offline storage is simply duplicating what they've already done and only worth doing if your internet is really slow if you want to conveniently reinstall things from backup.
So you could spend less on storage if the network was fast but that's only taking into consideration gaming there's still docs, vids, pics to think about as well as other productivity apps - it all depends. Mostly gamers probably just want faster network anyway for a low ping.
As for cloud services hosting data well a saved game position probably isn't quite as sensitive as docs, emls and other personal bric a brac.
If you own a legendary or epic item in a online mmo technically the data is in the hands of the company hosting the game. anyway.
You can easily control what to store online or offline so, nobody has to get your data. The bulk of 100s of gb's is just software samples of the game being cloned over the network when you download it.
Company like Valve too big to fail? Hard to imagine them going down and taking the whole store and all your games with them. Even then if they did maybe all the digital copyright protections would be invalidated, who knows? There are probably old softwares that have vanished from existence though can still find even many old bbc micro games from 40 years ago. You can't play steam games without the steam client anyway. Offline mode sort of works until you need to validate files or something.
So you could spend less on storage if the network was fast but that's only taking into consideration gaming there's still docs, vids, pics to think about as well as other productivity apps - it all depends. Mostly gamers probably just want faster network anyway for a low ping.
As for cloud services hosting data well a saved game position probably isn't quite as sensitive as docs, emls and other personal bric a brac.
If you own a legendary or epic item in a online mmo technically the data is in the hands of the company hosting the game. anyway.
You can easily control what to store online or offline so, nobody has to get your data. The bulk of 100s of gb's is just software samples of the game being cloned over the network when you download it.
Company like Valve too big to fail? Hard to imagine them going down and taking the whole store and all your games with them. Even then if they did maybe all the digital copyright protections would be invalidated, who knows? There are probably old softwares that have vanished from existence though can still find even many old bbc micro games from 40 years ago. You can't play steam games without the steam client anyway. Offline mode sort of works until you need to validate files or something.
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