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Like obviously not for newer cutting edge games but for newer indie games and older AAA games?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I use a 5TB array of old HDDs for my gaming rig set up with LVM for expandability and raid 0 style striping for speed.

The longest game for me to load is Risk of Rain 2 coming in at about 3 minutes from launch to main menu, even cp2077 only takes about 2 minutes from launch to "in game".

The thing you'll notice most is your drives will slow down significantly as you start to fill them up, it takes longer to read data from the outside of an HDD than the center.

The advice part: Git you a couple high rpm high capacity HDDs, set em up in raid 10, have fun!