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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaladane View Post
    Extra hdds aren't a big problem as long as you get a case with a few bays. Plus you can always go external if you have to for movies and stuff.
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    You should only need enough room for an optical drive and 2x internal HDDs max. Larger drives are always getting cheaper so if you use 2 of them it's fairly quick and easy to swap out the second one for a larger drive.
    Backing up shit you use externals and don't keep them hooked up unless you're actually using them.
    so is it still recommended to use an ssd for an os apps? or could I get away with using a non-ssd for that stuff?
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    Yeah plenty of PC dudes recommend ssd for primary drive because of the increased read/write speeds. Also reliability has been an additional reason for using them, but they can fail just like any other drive...even when quite new.
    No reason why you can't use a larger capacity sata drive though, just depends what your priorities are really.

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    I believe Inferno had a SSD fail on him when it was fairly new.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
    Yeah plenty of PC dudes recommend ssd for primary drive because of the increased read/write speeds. Also reliability has been an additional reason for using them, but they can fail just like any other drive...even when quite new.
    No reason why you can't use a larger capacity sata drive though, just depends what your priorities are really.
    so it really just boils down to price than?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grouch View Post
    so it really just boils down to price than?
    It's basically $$ per TB if you don't care about having the fastest read/write speeds.

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    By that I mean you don't necessarily go for the largest HDD you can afford, you go for the sizes that are good value for capacity. As I said you only really need 2 internal HDDs max, you can use externals for everything else and always upgrade the second internal later on when it's worth doing.

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    I'm sure somebody obsessed with racial purity will come along and poo-poo what I posted. Because all of my hardware is potato anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
    By that I mean you don't necessarily go for the largest HDD you can afford, you go for the sizes that are good value for capacity. As I said you only really need 2 internal HDDs max, you can use externals for everything else and always upgrade the second internal later on when it's worth doing.
    DL HDD array.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
    I believe the game was originally built for consoles, so the PC version is a port. A port of a last gen console game.
    Maybe it is possible to force 4k I wouldn't know You probably have to mess around with files or whatever.
    But there isn't an official release or patch to improve the game to current gen standards.

    Some of the dialogue has changed now anyway, ok so not much and it's only related to questioning. I remember reading that originally the relevant dialogue was intended to be different than what it was in the first release.
    Depends on how well they ported it. If it wasn't done by monkeys the engine/game will support arbitrary resolutions and framerates and have better textures.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
    I'm sure somebody obsessed with racial purity will come along and poo-poo what I posted. Because all of my hardware is potato anyway.
    No one is going to argue that SSDs are garbage for storage. Internal or external is a point of preference if it's only for storage. Either configure the power settings to turn off inactive drives or use an external option(s) .

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    I imagine price is a concern from what you're saying Grouch. You could always grab a small sata drive to start or even just yank one out of a laptop until you save up for more impressive hardware.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaladane View Post
    I imagine price is a concern from what you're saying Grouch. You could always grab a small sata drive to start or even just yank one out of a laptop until you save up for more impressive hardware.
    price is only a concern because I really don't need some uber gaming rig.
    a laptop drive is an option since I have this one that's only a year old and 500gb building a desktop means I really have no use for this old laptop other than maybe as a backup but with the screen dying out on it it'd only serve as a desktop(which is what I'm using it for right now)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grouch View Post
    price is only a concern because I really don't need some uber gaming rig.
    a laptop drive is an option since I have this one that's only a year old and 500gb building a desktop means I really have no use for this old laptop other than maybe as a backup but with the screen dying out on it it'd only serve as a desktop(which is what I'm using it for right now)
    There ya go! 500gb is a start!

    I have 2 laptop drives just dangling in my desktop right now

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaladane View Post
    There ya go! 500gb is a start!

    I have 2 laptop drives just dangling in my desktop right now
    I was thinking about it last night but I wasn't sure if you could hook up a laptop sata to a desktop. I also thought about the possibility of putting it in an external case and using as an external hdd for storage.
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