Should I play retro PC games on a HDD or SSD or does it even matter?
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>>12053087It won't make much of a difference. The assets are not particularly big so it won't be a game changer as there isn't much data to move around. Realistically how long would it take a late 90s 3D game to load map_16.level which is only 10MB? Your HDD reads at 80 MB/s, your SSD at 500MB/s. It'll be faster but it won't be distinct.
>>12053095Would the faster SSD break anything though? You always hear about high fps breaking old games for example
It doesn't matter, only games made in the last 15 years or so have enough data to cause issues loading off a spin drive as opposed to an SSD. And no playing off an SSD shouldn't break anything since very old games where the game running too fast was an issue was a processor speed issue, not a data load speed issue. You fix that with emulators like DOSBox by setting the cycles used to an acceptable speed.
>>12053087I play PC games on an SD card and it doesn't make difference. Maybe load times will slightly differ but the variance is so small that you wouldn't notice.
>>12053087SSD every time simply because there are less moving parts. Every moving part is a potential point of failure.
>>12053351don't HDDs last longer than SSDs
>>12053414>>12053414Yes in theory but modern HDD makers suck ass.That said my old IDE HDD with 100gb still works no problem and that's with still constant use. Its been through several builds. I hear constantly about peoples drives failing and I've never experienced one
>>12053104No. Two completely different matters.
