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Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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You can move things to and from different drives in the steam settings pretty easily, so in the past I used to archive larger games I was not playing to a large HDD on my system to avoid having to download it all again.
When I wanted to play again I moved it back to my SSD.