Starfield is now available to preload on Xbox Series X/S consoles and PC, meaning we now know its install size. On PC, …
  • MrZee@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Old curmudgeons unite! I totally knew what you meant.

    Edit: that said, I would add NVMe SSD as the way to go… although I think that is pretty much all you find these days. Are non-nvme m.2 drives a thing?

    • lloram239@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      M.2 SATA drives are still a thing, same port, but different slower protocol as NVMe. They are less common, but still around and available in TB size. Don’t think there is any reason to get this outside of compatibility with old hardware.

      There is also mSATA, which is a different port from M.2, but has a very similar look and size. Also slower than NVMe and no reason to get them unless you have hardware that uses them (e.g. some old Beelink miniPC have them).

    • deadcream@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not sure about now but a couple years ago most motherboards had both SATA M.2 and NVMe M.2 slots. Also SATA SSDs aren’t much slower than NVMe for games. NVMe shines in very large sequential reads/write operations, there aren’t much those in games (except maybe on initial loading?).