It's not a hard requirement.

They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.

for POrn, but who downloads porn nowadays. unless its the illegal kind. to the idiot below who brigaded and downvoted, i was repeating other people saying it was for porn.

Sure, you might.

But Baulder’s Gate 3 for example, which claims to require an SSD in it's system requirements runs just fine on a HDD.

It's just the developer making sure you get optimal performance.

Get your meds, man

Makes me shudder. I have to replace a drive in my array, because it is degraded. It's a 4TB. Imagine having to replace one of these. I'd much rather have a bunch of cheaper drives, even if they are a bit more expensive per TB, because the replacement cost will eventually make the total cost of ownership lower.

Also, repeat with me: "Please give me a Toshiba or Hitachi, please"

humble homelabbers masquerading

LMAO!!

Indeed, as others have said this isn't a hard requirement. Anyone with a handheld (e.g. Steam Deck) playing off a uSD card uses a device that's an order of magnitude slower for sequential I/O

I can personally guarantee that it is a hard requirement for Spider-Man and Ratchet

Yep staggering manufacturing dates is a good suggestion. I do it but it does make purchasing during sales periods to get good prices harder. Better than losing multiple drives at once, but RAID needs a backup anyway and nobody should skip that step.

That's not how computers work, but sure bro.

Do people actually use such massive hard drives? I still have my 1 TB HDD in my PC (and a 512 GB SSD), lol.

I mostly buy new Toshiba drives now. The WD blue drives are fine. I have a few of them. I have a WD red that is reporting surface errors, it's still going and the number of errors hasn't increased so I'm not stressing replacing it. Also, btrfs gives me peace of mind because I can periodiclly check if my filesystem has corrupted data.

Pretty sure I had a bigger hard drive than that for my Amiga. You could have broken a toe if you’d dropped it.

no thanks Seagate. the trauma of losing my data because of a botched firmware with a ticking time bomb kinda put me off your products for life.

see you in hell.

Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it's mostly enterprise use.

Still, I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.

Is Seagate still producing shitty drives that fail a few days after the warranty expired?

It's not really Ext4 doing that, it's a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.

You'll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.

Hey, they told you how long they expected it to last

But it is a hard drive requirement.