For the future what would you recommend a 1tb SD or a 4TB HDD for the same price?

for the future what would you recommend a 1tb SD or a 4TB HDD for the same price?

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Is this the only storage device you're gonna have?
If yes, get HDD.

Personally I would go for about 500gb SSD and 2tb HDD, my 240gb SSD has served me well but the retarded game sizes these days make it hard to manage even when I don't keep a lot of things installed.

Depends on what you want from storage device.If you're a data hoarder pick HDD, if you just want to use it as your main drive and install some games go with SSD

SSD for games/programs/boot drive, HDD for media storage and games which dont require the faster r/w speeds of an SSD.

Playing on pc? I'd rather get a HDD with a ton of space. I don't really notice loading times at this point with a HDD. On console? lol.

unless youre a single player only faggot SSDs are still pointless and inferior. 99% of people that have them don’t have any real use for them beyond: OMG MY WINDOWS BOOTED IN 2 SECONDS!!!
if you play multiplayer then youre gonna be waiting on people with hard drives anyway, which is most people.

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Assuming the system would have an SSD already in some fashion (because why would you suffer with an OS installed on a platter drive in modern-day), I'd take the 4tb and just get in the habit of swapping games on/off of the SSD if the space is limited.

You get the SSD for software and you get the HDD for media.

Large HDD for storage and old games
Medium to large SSD if you can afford it for OS and new games

>being a poorshit
There are multiplayer games that literally do not function without SSD like PoE for example. You can also get voted out of the game if your load times are shitting up the lobby.

1tb add is a must, 500 is too small. Later you can get 4-6tb of hdd

This.

Stop making us wait with your ancient boomer tech. Get an SSD for multiplayer you cheap fucks.

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Depends on your use case. SSD for boot drive, or games you want to load fast and have notoriously shit load times, HDD for dumping loads of crap you wont access constantly.

ew why would I want a big fugly HARD DISK

If it's possible for you, it might be more sensible to get M.2 SSD rather than 2.5". I know that current gen games don't really benefit from loading time like 3000MB/s, but with both new XBox and PS5 boasting about their loading times, I imagine developers are gonna start optimizing for that pretty soon.

>gonna start optimizing for that pretty soon.
That is one way to say "stop optimizing"

It makes no difference, no matter single or multiplayer games.

You will not see any improvement in any shape by using an ssd. Big fucking deal if you have to wait a minute longer for some shitty game to load.
It's 4-5 times more expensive unless you get chinese garbage.
A hard disk drive will last you 5-10 years easily with extensive daily use. Just don't order online.

this weeb is correct

why not both? have an SSD where you install your OS and a HDD where you stooge all your shit.

sure thing bro
any decade now

i personally don't give a fuck if i have to wait 5s more for a game.
my setup:
mvme for windows.
ssd for programms.
hhd for games.

And can you imagine what kind of loading times you'll be dealing with if you're still gonna be loading shit from HDD?

It's a sad fact that consoles are generally the platforms that set standards, and they've relied on HDDs since PS3 and 360 came out. Sure, it was possible to upgrade the standard HDD with a faster SSD, but even that is too complicated for normies, and devs couldn't count on customers to do that, so of course everything was built around the standard HDDs.
The new gen is going to be the first one where the consoles have faster storage out of the box. And jump from HDD to M.2 SSD is pretty insane.

2TB HDD and get a SSD of whatever space you want to have for games that is all

This is correct though, that said nothing wrong with wanting more perfomance in single player games, specially open world stuff

I got a 5TB 2.5" HDD for 80€ just a few weeks back. It's great.

I'd not use a HDD for anything today, they're probably more expensive than SSD storage now if you're including the cost to make them as safe as a good SSD.

8tb ssd

if you're asking for a dedicated game drive, get the ssd

then you delete games when it gets full, we know damn well you're not gonna replay them anyway

multiplayer games still need to load maps and shit, and definitely benefit from an ssd

even more so in games that don't wait for everyone to load before proceeding, that way someone else's dumpster salvage pc won't directly affect your load times

Both

if i installed my OS on a HDD, will my games still run faster if i install them on a SSD?

Both, obviously. SSD for the games that benefit heavily or more or less need it, HDD for everything else.

SSD for software.
HDD for storage.
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Of course they will. It all depends on the media the software lies on.
Just having OS and the games on separated disks would provide a small speed and stability boost.

They are different components in the memory pyramid.
Not mutually exclusive.

500gb SSD +2TB hard drive