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Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/games
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On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it's 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I picked up a 1TB NVMe for literally $38 this week. Absolutely absurd how inexpensive SSDs are right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Be careful, most cheap NVMe drives have low endurance. Llike, not "Oh, you're just hand wringing about nothing," endurance ratings but an actually and relevantly low number of terabytes that can be written before the drive becomes failure-prone. They also usually lack a DRAM cache, so certain operations can be as slow as a mechanical hard drive, thereby negating the major advantage of opting for solid-state storage.

[–] Molecular0079 9 points 1 year ago

What low TBW numbers have you seen that give you concern?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were all that price unless I went up to PCIe 4.0, which my laptop doesn't support. I got a well-known brand. But thanks for the heads up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For future proofing it can be worthwhile to get a pcie4 drive for a pcie3 machine.

That said, even if you have a pcie4 machine it may not be worth it to bother with pcie4 storage. I was annoyed about loading times with baldurs gate 3 and decided to try installing it to a RAM disk (yes, using 130GB of RAM)... Barely loaded any faster. Turns out the main bottleneck is elsewhere and my storage was not the issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It was for a laptop. I'm not going to be changing the motherboard to a PCIe 4.0 compatible one. By the time I buy a new laptop, I may need PCIe 5.0. I'm not sure, but I don't want to overspend now when by the time I need something it is cheaper. If PCIe 4.0 is more than $38 cheaper when I need it than now, then I saved money. And I doubt I'll be in the market for a new laptop any time soon. Mine is only 2 years old and still kicks ass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Well known brand like Sandisk?

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

If you're running a database server or something with lots of writing and data you don't want to lose, I can see the concern.

But a drive for gaming is the best possible use case for a lower endurance drive. Even a poor drive can write the whole thing 200 times. I doubt many people would even get close to that.