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I want to play it, but finding 120gb for Baldur’s Gate 3 was hard enough, so I’m going to have to pass until I can afford a bigger hard drive.
I'm pretty sure bethesda said playing starfield with a hard drive isn't great 1tb SSDs aren't too expensive anymore I'd really recommend moving away from a hard drive
Huh I always thought "hard drive" was the umbrella category, and SSDs and spinny disk drives are subcategories.
Nah, the "SS" and "HD" bits refers to how each storage disk reads data. HDDs use hard metal disks to read & write data, hence it got the misnomer hard disk drive. SSDs use solid state flash memory to read & write data, hence it being called a solid state drive.
If you want the general category, you'd want to say "storage drive" specifically since if you say "drive", that can also refer to an optical drive (AKA the CD slot) or a USB drive (AKA flash/thumb drives).