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The Sales Will Continue (lemmy.world)

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[-] MHanak@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Congrats, you have just invented caching, but worse
SSDs have limited write endurance, so moving a lot of large files on and off of them will wear the nand flash out shortening its lifetime and potentially killing it
If yoh DO want to run off of a HDD, it is a good idea, but for older games that were designed to run on them, modern games are more reliant on fast drives

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assuming 150MB/s HDD read speed (fairly fast for a hdd) it would take 11 minutes to move a single 100GB file. This speed would be vastly lowered if copying many small files

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

SSDs have limited write endurance, so moving a lot of large files on and off of them will wear the nand flash out shortening its lifetime and potentially killing it

This is the conventional wisdom, but honestly I've not seen any detectable wear on any of my several year old SSDs even with daily use. I've seen more SSDs fail just due to age/power on hours professionally and never wear-related

[-] MHanak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That's probably because you are not moving 100s gigabites of daya on a regular basis (i assume)

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

But for gamers moving game installs that they don't feel like rebuilding the mod load out for between an HDD and an SSD that might be moving an extra 100GB month or so, probably less frequently depending on how much they're moving games around, plus it's no more wear than if they simply uninstalled and reinstalled the game as needed. Ultimately I don't think that'll make much difference.

I'll look at the wear stats on my main desktop with its 8 year old SSD when I get a chance and share