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You’re going to need an SSD in order to play Final Fantasy 16 on PC
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I haven’t had an HDD since around 2004, maybe 2002. Sure I cant keep tons of big games installed, but decent internet makes that not really an issue.
What were you storing your stuff on?
The first reasonable sized consumer ssds I remember were the original ocz line. What was it like onyx or agility? And that wasnt until almost 2010 ish.
2002 seems suuuuper early.
Probably floppy disks
I haven’t had an FDD since around 1950, maybe 1970. Sure I cant keep tons of short songs installed, but decent radio makes that not really an issue.
That’s super early to have adopted SSDs solely, no?
Yeah it is, and Windows didn’t get TRIM support for SSDs until Windows 7 in 2009.
The MacBook Air didn’t even get SSDs until 2008, and I believe it was the first mass-produced consumer computer with an SSD. Linux also got support around that time.
I’m skeptical unless OP’s dad worked somewhere that had enterprise drives to discard… and allowed drives to disappear.
The oldest receipt I can locate was from 2009. I think that was my second. The first ssd being from before my son was born. He’s about to graduate high school. I remember when trim came out it was a big deal and I remember vaguely having issues with getting it to work on that first drive.
All that said, you’re probably right that 2002 was way too early of a guesstimate. Say 2006 or even 2010. What have people been doing all these years. Just waiting to boot up? There is a whole generation that should never have had to deal with hdd’s for anything but data hoarding.
That sounds more reasonable lol.
Yeah ~2008 is kind of the timeframe I have for people getting SSDs in consumer devices. I mean… maybe you could count compact flash?