Topic: Does a gaming PC even need a hard drive?

Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #96,454

Seeing as there is one terabyte microSD cards. Can’t you just use that? Obviously you’ll need a video card and an audio card. Not to mention CPU and motherboard. But given how big such tiny cards are nowadays I don’t see why you can’t use it for gaming. Can you have a PC build for gaming where the hard drive is a microSD card?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,088,277

What a gaming PC really needs is a good router.

dreamworks joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,278

No they're not fast enough use an ssd

Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 8 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,279

SD cards aren't designed to be used as hard drives. They're more for occasional read/write than continuous. Also they're not fast enough.

SSDs are so cheap nowadays I don't even know why you would want to do this honestly.

dreamworks replied with this 6 years ago, 22 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,283

Wow a 1tb microsd is €300

tteh !GETFUCKED joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,285

You're not going to have a good time with the ~10MB/s read/write speeds of an SD card. A standard SSD is about 500MB/s for comparison.

tteh !GETFUCKED double-posted this 6 years ago, 38 seconds later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,286

P.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 39 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,088,302

@previous (tteh !GETFUCKED)

Even drives plugged into a USB 3.0 port have faster read/write speeds than that.

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