Hey so I’ve seen alot of back and forth about internal drive in a case vs external drive so whats the best for storing games long term and moving them once/twice a week

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    1 year ago

    “Best” is usually a vague term. Best would be likely a high end enterprise SSD. Costs about as much as a car but is reliable and pumps out data at multi GB/s speed all day long.

    How much storage do you need?

    How big is your budget?

    How fast does it have to be?

    How large are your games usually?

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      1 year ago

      Why ssd over platter drives? It’s for storage. I’d say that for longevity a mechanical will outlive an SSD.

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    1 year ago

    It really depends there on the games and their disk usage. I do prefer to have NVMe drives for my games, simply not to even think about possible issues with disk performance.

    I understand that it can be costly depending on the required capacity, but I do not spend anything on backups for them since they can be easily redownloaded.