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The Sales Will Continue (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly......spinning disks are good for anything. Yeah I don't have any in my gaming rig but my NAS is only spinners. Cheap and fast enough.

It all comes down to how much money you have. If you can only afford spinning disks, then get them - and enjoy your gaming. If you can afford faster drives then great, good for you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I used to think this too until I got a proper NVME (instead of another SATA SSD). Once you get used to programs opening instantly—and no loading screens in games, ever—there's no going back to spinning disks. Waiting 10-20 seconds for a program to open on a HDD feels like an eternity now.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you must recognise that's a luxury. There's no going back because your circumstances allow it. If someone needs more storage but they can't afford an SSD then there is going back - and I for one would choose loading screens over no screens.

There's way too much snobbery around PCs imo. I want to encourage the world to be more compromising so that there is no societal pressure to buy this year's gfx card for £1700 and this year's CPU for £700 and this year's newest nvme for £300 etc...etc...buy what you can and want to afford.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You make good points and I have nothing further to add.