On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it’s 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition

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      1 year ago

      I picked up a 1TB NVMe for literally $38 this week. Absolutely absurd how inexpensive SSDs are right now.

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        1 year ago

        Be careful, most cheap NVMe drives have low endurance. Llike, not “Oh, you’re just hand wringing about nothing,” endurance ratings but an actually and relevantly low number of terabytes that can be written before the drive becomes failure-prone. They also usually lack a DRAM cache, so certain operations can be as slow as a mechanical hard drive, thereby negating the major advantage of opting for solid-state storage.

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          1 year ago

          They were all that price unless I went up to PCIe 4.0, which my laptop doesn’t support. I got a well-known brand. But thanks for the heads up!

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            For future proofing it can be worthwhile to get a pcie4 drive for a pcie3 machine.

            That said, even if you have a pcie4 machine it may not be worth it to bother with pcie4 storage. I was annoyed about loading times with baldurs gate 3 and decided to try installing it to a RAM disk (yes, using 130GB of RAM)… Barely loaded any faster. Turns out the main bottleneck is elsewhere and my storage was not the issue

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              It was for a laptop. I’m not going to be changing the motherboard to a PCIe 4.0 compatible one. By the time I buy a new laptop, I may need PCIe 5.0. I’m not sure, but I don’t want to overspend now when by the time I need something it is cheaper. If PCIe 4.0 is more than $38 cheaper when I need it than now, then I saved money. And I doubt I’ll be in the market for a new laptop any time soon. Mine is only 2 years old and still kicks ass.

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          If you’re running a database server or something with lots of writing and data you don’t want to lose, I can see the concern.

          But a drive for gaming is the best possible use case for a lower endurance drive. Even a poor drive can write the whole thing 200 times. I doubt many people would even get close to that.

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        1 year ago

        This could be a problem for console players though, especially those with a Series S which can’t run new games off an external.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah, let’s create 250GB SSD cartridges per game because thry each cost about 26€

      You know how ridiculous that sounds, right?

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        1 year ago

        Yes, everyone realizes how ridiculous that sounds. Why did you post it?

        Also, please don’t give EA any ideas.

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        1 year ago

        I mean if you really wanna maximize your spending you can get 150 1gb flash drives and trick the OS to thinking its one device.

        Or like just gets bigger drive that’s cheaper per GB like someone with a brain.

        And like how would cartridge games work anyways? most PCs have really limited sata slots