Adding a hdd for steam and other games

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Ripthruster

Ripthruster

Distinguished
Nov 28, 2010
241
0
18,710
Just as the title says... I'm adding a drive for game storage : Steam and a couple of large games like StarCitizen.
I'm going to pick up a WD black 2T but noticed that fit 40 more microcenter is selling a HGST 4TB deskstar drive that has similar stats (7200rpm 64 cache), similar reliability, but has double the storage. Is it with the extra forty bucks or stick with the 2t black? I have a 280g SSD as a boot drive and a 600g Hitachi drive that is currently my main.
I want to keep all of my games together on one drive so a large enough SSD isn't in the budget right now.
 
Solution
F
Strongly recommend being a bit judicious with the amount games you have installed and getting a 500gb SSD.

Keep HDDs for media storage. Im finding it ever so hard to justify WD blacks over much cheaper seagates. All HDDs are slow as dog manure compared to SSDs.

Samsung 850 evo 500gb is $150. Get it.
Sort by date Sort by votes
Gingerbread

Gingerbread

Judicious
Nov 2, 2009
4,752
0
33,960
The 4tb one is good and will do the job, however the WD black is faster more likely better, hgsts had the highest death rate in the 3-6tb range from what I remember reading, while the WD black has a 5 year warranty and I doubt you will run out of storage any time soon with it. Also are you sure your motherboard supports 4tb to begin with?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Ripthruster

Ripthruster

Distinguished
Nov 28, 2010
241
0
18,710
It's a P8p67 board for a Sandybridge cpu so no problem on the size.
I thought the only reliability issues were with the 3tb drives.
2tb should certainly be enough for quite a while as I've been surviving for this long on a 600gb drive. I just happened to see this HGST on sale and was thinking if 40 bucks and a little performance hit was worth reading of for double capacity. Unless it would be a big performance hit because of the size.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
F

fredfinks

Honorable
Oct 21, 2015
1,922
16
12,465
Strongly recommend being a bit judicious with the amount games you have installed and getting a 500gb SSD.

Keep HDDs for media storage. Im finding it ever so hard to justify WD blacks over much cheaper seagates. All HDDs are slow as dog manure compared to SSDs.

Samsung 850 evo 500gb is $150. Get it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
Ripthruster

Ripthruster

Distinguished
Nov 28, 2010
241
0
18,710


No, but I hate deleting games and redownloading them just to check out new dlc or live events. I have a collection of controller friendly games for in front of the living room TV and some for normal use in office next to the tower with mouse/kb or flight stick. Also have titles the wife likes. I realize 2t is overkill right now for strictly a games drive but it's barely more expensive than a 1.
Whatever the main game I'm playing that is more often open ended like an mmo (rift, Elite, etc...)ends up on my 280g ssd.
When decent 1tb ssd is more affordable, I'd go for that.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
F

fredfinks

Honorable
Oct 21, 2015
1,922
16
12,465
get a cheap external USB3 or internal HDD and use steams backup / restore function. You download once and off to archive storage it goes. Reinstallation is a few minutes even with massive game sizes.

I backup/resotre because internet here in Australia is slow and be damned if im going to the hassle of downloading a 30gb game again.
More & more games are loading area data during gameplay, its not just save/load and boot times. Dont waste your $ on expensive HDDs. Unless its for reliability for backups.



 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom