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Ideally, yes, the games would also be on SSD, but I've had my Steam library on a separate HDD for a while. I can get a 2TB HDD that is fast enough for me for ar
by stordoff 11y ago
Ideally, yes, the games would also be on SSD, but I've had my Steam library on a separate HDD for a while. I can get a 2TB HDD that is fast enough for me for around £60, which would store most of Steam library. Spending a similar amount on an SSD would only get around 240GB storage, which could be filled quickly depending what you want to play (random example from the Steam homepage: XCOM2 requires 45GB storage).
I'd love to upgrade all my storage to SSDs, but the cost/benefit ratio isn't that great IMO (it's improving, so may be a non-issue in a few years). FWIW, photos/videos/movies get stored on my NAS (4x3TB;RAID5) unless I'm editing them in Premiere.
Edit: fixed typo.