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Update November 30: Look, you can never have too much fast storage on a gaming rig with the way things are going, and at the time of writing you can still treat yourself to an extra terabyte of high speed storage for just $80. I would have recommended splurging on two terabytes, but the 2TB version of the WD Black stick here has just run out of stock on Amazon—maybe take a look at our SSD deals hub if you want to try out the 2TB life. I got such a stick for myself this time last year, have installed all my games on it since, and still have more than a terabyte left to spare. I did, unfortunately, have to use pliers and a screwdriver to disassemble (read: destroy) the Silicon Power X570's proprietary heat sink so the damn thing would fin on my motherboard, but hey: You won't have that particular problem with a WD Black SN850X!
The time has once again come for a Black Friday SSD deal to hopefully help me survive another year in the neverending war of attrition between the file size of my favorite games and the storage space in my PC. This year I'm looking at my game library drive with dread as I total up the nearly 700GB worth of games I was really hoping to play this holiday. Unlike in past years when I would be eyeing a 512GB drive and counting my pennies, this year I think I'll score a roomy new NVMe for under $100.
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Here's my dilemma, and tell me if you can relate: I played 80 hours of Baldur's Gate 3 last year and only reached act two and then at some point this year had to uninstall it to make room for newer games. Red Dead Redemption 2 got that same axe last year when I sacrificed it to my Diablo 4 installation. It turns out I just really like big games.
Now I'm looking from my game library to my NVMe drive, trying to figure out what's going to give. Because I've got a lot of games I want to play this holiday break. If I reinstall Baldur's Gate 3 to finish my playthrough, reinstall RDR2 so I can finally play that campaign instead of tooling around in RDO, reinstall Elden Ring (which I also didn't beat), and then also toss in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth that I didn't play yet, Metaphor: ReFantazio that everyone swears to me is amazing, Dragon's Dogma 2 that I barely touched in March, and Path of Exile 2 coming up next week we're looking at a grand total of 692 GB of storage space that I need to find.
Now that could all fit on a 1TB drive that's also my boot drive if I wanted it to. Since our favorite WD Black SN850X drive up there is down to $80 right now that's a tidy way to either start a fresh PC build with room for your current library and space to expand or add it in as a secondary drive and move your game library over to it.
Even after I buy myself a new drive and spend a day waiting for all these games to install, am I even going to have time to crack into all of them over the short holiday break? Who died and made you the responsible one? My delusions will last as long as the discounts do.
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