Comment on Why does Helldivers 2 have such a bloated install size on PC? Old hard drives, says dev

• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not even remotely what I said and I don’t appreciate the insinuation.

  SSDs have been very inexpensive for many years now. Enough that the power bill alone can offset the additional cost.

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Ew how can people be so dumb”

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So uh… you find a lot of people around you tend to ask that, huh?

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SSD’s are at best like… 3 times the cost of an HDD (and in that case you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel finding the worst SSD’s known to man)… At worst they are like 5-6 times more expensive. Speaking in absolutes is irrelevant, the relative costs are the ones that matter. Different regions have even higher prices, too.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A 1TB HDD goes for $40-80, depending on how fancy you wanna get. That’s like maybe $20 more. Not that any of that is relevant since you can’t sell back your HDD so $60 is $60. It’s not a lot of money for a massive increase in performance.

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