That’s, like, 22 God of War Ragnaröks
One of the more compelling arguments for gaming graphics degrowth is that all those extreme-fidelity moss textures andMaster Chief helmet dentsare producing some horrifically engorged installation sizes. That’s a recipe for anSSDupgrade, and if it’s space you’re after, thenAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayshas the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus on some big discounts. It’s down from£250 to just £192in the UK, and down from$360 to $210in the US.
That’s not an exaggeration about file sizes, by the way. 150GB forHorizon Forbidden West. Nearly 200GB forGod of War Ragnarök.Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3and all its Warzone trimmings are something like 235GB, and adding all the DLC maps toArk: Survival Ascendedblows it up to over 400GB. And because games increasinglyrun like dogshiton mechanical hard drives, a bigger and better SSD is the only real long-term hardware solution. Luckily, the P3 Plus is a good’un – higher-end drives like the WD Black SN850x have it beaten in our game loading tests, but it’s still impressively competitive in general file-moving benchmarks.
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As this is a PCIe 4.0 SSD, it’ll need a motherboard that supports the 4.0 standard for its best speeds, but that’s easily doable unless your PC is grey haired and bereft of all its original teeth. The more limiting limitation is probably the need to be an Amazon Prime member to get the lower price; Prime Big Deal Days is, like the main Prime Day even in the summer, a kind of exclusive club for subscribers. Though you could always just sign up for Prime’s free trial.
Prime Big Deal Days runs across October 8th-9th, so keep an eye out for more hardware offers to come. Likely including some other SSD options, if you fancy something faster but without quite as much capacity.
