SSD or HDD

[Tyty001]

I know this question as probably been ask a million times but I'm really not sure. So I want to buy a 1 tb hdd. Do I really need a ssd for gaming ?

[alexhelvetica]

I would get an SSD as the boot drive.

Store games on the HDD.

[Gale]

No, you don't need an SSD for gaming. What most people do is: Place their OS and most used programs in the SSD. They store everything else (games, music, photos, etc.) in an HDD.

[amp88]

Do I really need a ssd for gaming ?

No. An SSD will improve your level loading times and may improve certain aspects during gameplay (e.g. loading large textures or large areas of new map), but it won't get you a significant increase in FPS.

[ThatGuyNamedKasper]

People these days get an ssd and a hard drive, the ssd for windows so it boots up in like 3 seconds and for everything else like their movies, games and photo's they store it on  their 1TB hard drive. 

[Tyty001]

Ok thank you a lot I'm can buy a ssd and a hdd

[TonyStark]

I'm currently using SSDs in my rig and HDDs in my server and NAS. In general I prefer SSDs for apps, games, OS and HDDs for general storage as they tend to be more reliable from SSDs up to this point (2 of my SSDs were rendered useless in less than a year and were replaced by their warrantry coverage).

[Captain_WD]

I know this question as probably been ask a million times but I'm really not sure. So I want to buy a 1 tb hdd. Do I really need a ssd for gaming ?

 

Hey Tyty001,

 

Games generally rely on the storage's performance only for the loading times and autosaves. FPS and graphics are not affected in any way. Only a few games need to load huge texture files while in-games, but HDDs are usually capable of doing that (those are usually open-world games).

Besides that, SSDs can bring a lot of value to your system as it decreases all loading and boot times, makes the whole system much more responsive and increase the transfer speeds.

 

Captain_WD.