Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

• TyrantTW@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Indeed, as others have said this isn’t a hard requirement. Anyone with a handheld (e.g. Steam Deck) playing off a uSD card uses a device that’s an order of magnitude slower for sequential I/O

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not a hard requirement.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But it is a hard drive requirement.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not how computers work, but sure bro.

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Okay well try telling that to my computer when the games wouldn’t run without constantly freezing to load assets every few seconds.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They stream data from it while you play, so if you don’t have an SSD you’ll get paused in game play.

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sure, you might.

      But Baulder’s Gate 3, which claims to require an SSD in it’s system requirements runs just fine on an HDD.

      It’s the developer making sure you get optimal performance.

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      • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Once upon a time there was minimum/recommended specs. 😔

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Both Cyberpunk and BG3 work flawlessly on the external USB hard drive that I use. The loading times suffer a bit, but not to an unplayable degree, not even close

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• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cyberpunk literally has an HDD mode, I play it of an HDD every day.

  With sufficient ram to load everything in you’ll just have longer load times, no hdd hitchiness

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• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Forza Horizon 4 and 5 don’t say they require an SSD I think, but when I had it on my hard drive any cars that did over 250kph caused significant world loading issues, as in I’d fall out of the world because it didn’t load the map.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Forza Horizon 4 actually does include an SSD in its requirements. Thank you for reminding me about that.

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It does technically work without it, just don’tgo over A class, don’t do sprints and there was 1 normal circuit that’s a tad big in a forest bit

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If a game isn’t fully playable without an SSD, then I consider it a requirement.

        Ever try playing Perfect Dark without an Expansion Pak back in the day? It’ll technically work, but you’ll get locked out of 90% of the game, including the campaign. Same thing with SSDs today.

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