Unnamed option that I use: a personal home server. I have a ton of movies and tv shows saved over 40TB and in one of those HDD's, I have all of my roms backed up on there. As for my gaming PC, i have an nvme boot drive, a 4tb nvme that holds launchbox and the majority of my games. Paid PC games from Steam, Epic etc on two 1tb 2.5 ssds
256 GB flash drive. 25 bucks each so I picked up two. they store my emulators and daily play roms. main drive stores library and cloud to store roms ps1 and sooner cause their size
Mechanical drives last much longer than SSDs. SSDs have a finite amount of writes. It would be pretty damn hard to burn through an SSD used as storage unless it is a cheap brand or old. For me, I have a box of about 20 2TB internal drives, many older than ten years and they are my main backup. I use them with a multi-slot HDD USB 3.1 dock. On my PC, I have two 8TB drives (WD Black), one where ROMs live for emulation, the other mostly for games to put on modded consoles (Wii, GC, XBOX, etc.)
Agreed, that's why I just keep the roms I play daily on a ssd and my use hdd for storage. Another thing to remember is that a hard drive insides will slowly break itself down just from being turned on.
@@UrCasualGamer OG XBOX modded in 2003-2004 with Xecuter 3 chip, 250 GB IDE drive. Still works and occasionally played to this day (TV in make-shift man cave). A PS2 with an even older 120GB drive works fine too and both those drives came from my daily driver gaming PC at the time when I had more PC gaming time so they've seen their fair share. All HDDs/SSDs fail, it just depends. No one can yet say that their 20-year-old SSD still works. Ultimately, don't break the bank but if the data is important, spend more for the next model up, dpending.... WD Blacks are worth the extra over Red/Blue/Green. Samsung 800 EVO drives are great, 900 PRO drives seem to be a waste of extra cash. I actually did have a brand new 650GB WD Black fail after a month of ownership used in my family file-server. Luckily, it was in a RAID 1 setup and the identical drive still kept going. Had a replacement drive in two days from WD, both drives working for over 10 years 24/7. I think I should do a smart test though. Anyway, great video. Long time viewer, I've seen your channel grow over the years. All the best to you.
It also depends on things like what systems you're playing and whether you have multiple internal drives or partitions. SNES and GBA ROMs take up way less space than Playstation onward. If you're a big RPG fan, they're your go-to for small files, big games, and hacks. It's all about strategy - how and where you store 'em that feels right for you.
CREATE BACKUPS!!!! Once you have your collection downloaded, you won’t want to do it again. I thought I had myself covered a few years back with a single backup and I ended up losing it all 🤦♂️. 2TB worth of data! I personally have several backups now (just over 4TB worth of data) over a fleet of drives. Not for everyone but, I have 3 gaming PCs with 6TB HDDs in each (mirrors). Also, an external backup 6TB HDD (not connected to the network) and a 6TB NAS HDD backup connected to my router. At least one or preferably two should do the job for most folks. 2 backups to the master drive/s is highly recommended imho. ✌️✌️ Edited: Made edits to clarify for peeps who might be out there looking for some slightly different solutions in the future. Keep it up @UrCasualGamer!!!
This is good advice. If I had to add something, you can also build your own external SSD, like I a have an ASUS TUF enclosure which is dust and waterproof. You can also pick A RAID enclosure, I have one running in raid 1, which means you can write data to 2 separate drives at the same time, which is useful if one of them fails.
that flat small usb drive isnt safe. they could easily be lost. lucky im not a modern days games fans. modern games isnt fun and it doesnt make sense. i can play retro games all day long everyday if i wanted
Convenient video. Just an hour ago I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this. I'm looking for more of an all-in-one solution though. I guess that's probably not optimal though.
Why just external drives? Hdds are dirt cheap. I've seen used 8tb hdds with 100% health for $35, even on eBay. I'm considering getting one even though I already have about 6tb in total
I have them stored at three places and it is rather large now around 5TB all said. I am glad I bought mine when prices were lower. I got a 5 TB SSD for $90 and a few 1TB to 4 TB NVME's for $39 to $100 each. All total I got 18TB of storage for under $420.
I use a 4tb external hard drive for my whole collection. But I have been slowly burning all of my roms to optical discs as archival storage. Optical discs give you a physical backup that lasts multitudes longer than an HDD or an SSD. Many are graded to last over 100 years! Just store in room temp, away from sunlight. Smaller storage capacity? Actually, I prefer it. Storing collections on multiple discs lessens the risk of losing everything in the event that a single disk gets destroyed.
Hello friend I'm playing God of War Ascension I want a very good setting for my computer. He stops and lags during the game. Features of my computer. Ryzen 5 5600X .RTX 4060TI . Thank you for your help
Unconventional option is a dual layer BD and stored off in a CD jacket. You can go up to 100gb on them but usually locked to 50gb. Where these shine is longevity and the lwck of moving parts. Disc rot becomes a problem in time, but its only 20 or 30 years since the disc based games have started to show these signs of physical age. A high quality burn, stored in a CD jacket in a cool, dry place can hold many items and are relatively cheap. You could store the entire ps1 collection for north america in a 20 disc tray and still back up no intro cartridge collections that span up until the Nintendo DS. With another jacket you could store the entirety of the NDS and 3DS collection and still get room for something else like NTSC Saturn.
i use 2 external ssd 2tb for all my roms And because of the way the games industry is going, every day I appreciate my collection more and I'm thinking of buying 2 more SSDs to make more copies.
Saving roms to the cloud as a permanent solution is a terrible idea. I play on multiple devices and I store my save files in the cloud as my go-between. If I want to quickly transfer a rom over, I will also use the cloud. But as a permanent solution, its a terrible idea.
keeping only a handful of games on your PC and the rest you store on external drives is a good option… your external drives will be at less of a risk of being dropped.
You can get a hard drive with a large capacity and a hot swap usb dock for the best price. Paid cloud storage is expensive. You need two drives. One for backup.
Im building a new pc and i always give my internal drives a rom storage. But in this pc my case can hold 10 hdd and i bought a Seagate 8tb hard drive for my roms. And im also playing ro buy more hdd for my anime collection that ive collected over the years
From my past experiences, the best practice would be to keep all your ROMS and emulators (zip) on one external drive and a back up external drive ….. on my laptop and Legion Go I have the emulators & roms I will most likely use….. and I keep a portable copy of RetroBat or Launch Box …. with games… on a thumb drive…. copy games from externals when I feel I need something new to play
I highly recommend creating at least one backup drive, too. One day you'll be glad you have one, believe me. Every drive will die sooner or later, if you did not make a backup, you'd have to download all files all over again.
Yea, they will work as well. Plus, they last just as long as an ssd but mostly come in smaller storage amounts and slower speeds, which is fine for emulation. Dang kinda wish I would have mentioned them in the video now.
I'm a newbie. Should I keep the emulators on my C drive and the roms on an external hard drive OR should I have both the emulator and their roms on an external hard drive??
I wouldn’t recommend keeping anything related on your C: Drive if you can help it. I have been keeping nothing but Windows on it for just about 20 years now. If something goes wrong and you have to reinstall Windows, you HOPEFULLY shouldn’t lose all your files on the other drive/s 🤞
how about a NAS? it's like cloud storage with a one-time fee. only downside is the increased light bill and buying the hardware for it. regardless, it works great for me
I would NEVER recommend getting an external HDD. Yea, they are more affordable but I had one die on me in less than 4 years and I never dropped it or let anything happen to it.
Hey Shandell, I have a kind of "in-the-middle" setup to yours: - Internal 1TB NVMe SSD (for ROMs I currently play) - Internal 2TB SATA SSD (for archival purposes)
Well I have 8tb WD as a backup, a 2tb Toshiba for movies and animes, a 500gb external drive for Roms, another 500gb for pc games. So in my mini pc a 2tb nvme as main drive and a 1tb WD blue as a second drive and that’s where I stored all the roms/pc games I’m playing in the computer.
I got them stored on an external SSD, together with Retroarch and PCSX2, so whenever i hang out on a friend's, i just plug the drive on his PC and just play whatever we want from my collection. This is one of the biggest reasons why having the actual consoles just isn't feasible anymore, plus, digital storage on SSDs lasts longer than CDs/DVDs and consoles.
I think your recommendation makes a ton of sense, and not just for ROMS or other games. Get yourself a big hard drive to use for backups, and treat it like it's fragile. Then you don't need to spend as much money on larger external SSDs for everyday use.
in my humble opinion , the best time to put all your ROMS and emulators together in one spot is if you are making an arcade machine or other device that is going to be “permanent” ; the less wear and tear on the storage devices, the better…
I’ve been thinking about getting a nas for a while, but never actually started saving/budgeting for one yet. Been collecting more blu rays lately and wanted to digitize them and run a plex or jellyfin server. Been collecting roms for mostly just the things that I actually wanted to play, but now I’m thinking I should just start hoarding files just in case
I actually use to use a usb stick to store and play games on and it wasn't to bad but probably not the greatest to do. I stop using it because my other usb of that same brand stopped working and it was cheap so not surprised, so the one that is still surviving is just used for to store Linux and windows isos. I just bought a 2 TB external hard drive a couple months ago since it was cheaper than a SSD and I used up most of my amazon money.
thats what i did with my hard drive i store file anime games then store them at a safe place never to be use. but if a must to get those game back. i been storing game that way long ago
Getting a reliable USB thumb drive makes more sense for storing roms than buying pricy external drives. SanDisk and PNY are the most reliable brands. I have a rom collection on a 64 GB SanDisk flash drive. It’s lasted me 15 years so far.
My main PC has a 2.5TB Toshiba internal HDD for keeping classic/old games and ROM+emulator (and some game soundtracks too). If I want to play the game on other devices I would copy the ROM file to the device (and keep the save files on the cloud). Of course being an internal drive it’s unlikely to get dropped. My PC has 4 drives in total of 7TB. 2SSD and 2 HDD. I also have a home server with 20TB RAID6. I might move those ROM here and let other devices access to the files via VPN.
The average person won't reach 35000 writes in 10 years, the lifespan of an ssd. But that hard-drive well break within 5 or 6 simply because of the spinning disc inside. That's why I say don't leave them plugged in when not in use.
Switch roms and PS3 games will load a little quicker on ssd, but you will still have to wait for compileing to be done on your rom. So honestly, you probably won't notice a difference between the 2.
Correct, but if you look at the specs you'd have to write something like 2TB of stuff every day for ten years (or some crazy numbers like that) to wear out the blocks.
Correct, but if you look at the specs you'd have to write something like 2TB of stuff every day for ten years (or some crazy numbers like that) to wear out the blocks.
You're right a hhd really doesn't have a limit. It's the movement of the parts in side over the years that kill the drive. But an Ssd can write up to 35000 times before it's pretty much done for.
Great channel! Photographer here and novice gamer. You can also get an internal drive and buy an external drive enclosure for it. You can also get an usb drive adapter for it for sata drives etc. If you just want to dump and forget it, that’s budget solution for me. Unless you’re going to be constantly using it, then of course an actual external drive is the way to go. You can get a 4tb for less than 100 nowadays depending on the speed. You really don’t need a 7200 for data storage. There are some eco versions or 5400’s No doubt SSDs are the way to go but they are overly expensive for just storage.
Unnamed option that I use: a personal home server. I have a ton of movies and tv shows saved over 40TB and in one of those HDD's, I have all of my roms backed up on there. As for my gaming PC, i have an nvme boot drive, a 4tb nvme that holds launchbox and the majority of my games. Paid PC games from Steam, Epic etc on two 1tb 2.5 ssds
Storing on a data ssd thats not external is sill a solid option.
So a nas totally works? Trying to just store games, not play them from the server itself. Just want a place to store my game collection
@@alexschmeling2655 definitely. I just have them on the nas for backup in case I have any issue with an ssd in my gaming pc.
Are you sharing your roms?
@@treekidd I have with my family. Not online though
If I was to be honest I am choosing the ssd personally
256 GB flash drive. 25 bucks each so I picked up two. they store my emulators and daily play roms. main drive stores library and cloud to store roms ps1 and sooner cause their size
Mechanical drives last much longer than SSDs. SSDs have a finite amount of writes. It would be pretty damn hard to burn through an SSD used as storage unless it is a cheap brand or old. For me, I have a box of about 20 2TB internal drives, many older than ten years and they are my main backup. I use them with a multi-slot HDD USB 3.1 dock. On my PC, I have two 8TB drives (WD Black), one where ROMs live for emulation, the other mostly for games to put on modded consoles (Wii, GC, XBOX, etc.)
Agreed, that's why I just keep the roms I play daily on a ssd and my use hdd for storage. Another thing to remember is that a hard drive insides will slowly break itself down just from being turned on.
@@UrCasualGamer OG XBOX modded in 2003-2004 with Xecuter 3 chip, 250 GB IDE drive. Still works and occasionally played to this day (TV in make-shift man cave). A PS2 with an even older 120GB drive works fine too and both those drives came from my daily driver gaming PC at the time when I had more PC gaming time so they've seen their fair share. All HDDs/SSDs fail, it just depends. No one can yet say that their 20-year-old SSD still works. Ultimately, don't break the bank but if the data is important, spend more for the next model up, dpending.... WD Blacks are worth the extra over Red/Blue/Green. Samsung 800 EVO drives are great, 900 PRO drives seem to be a waste of extra cash. I actually did have a brand new 650GB WD Black fail after a month of ownership used in my family file-server. Luckily, it was in a RAID 1 setup and the identical drive still kept going. Had a replacement drive in two days from WD, both drives working for over 10 years 24/7. I think I should do a smart test though. Anyway, great video. Long time viewer, I've seen your channel grow over the years. All the best to you.
It also depends on things like what systems you're playing and whether you have multiple internal drives or partitions. SNES and GBA ROMs take up way less space than Playstation onward. If you're a big RPG fan, they're your go-to for small files, big games, and hacks. It's all about strategy - how and where you store 'em that feels right for you.
man, you're the MVP of emulation guides
Guess I'm getting a external drive or one of those 1tb flash drives
CREATE BACKUPS!!!! Once you have your collection downloaded, you won’t want to do it again. I thought I had myself covered a few years back with a single backup and I ended up losing it all 🤦♂️. 2TB worth of data! I personally have several backups now (just over 4TB worth of data) over a fleet of drives. Not for everyone but, I have 3 gaming PCs with 6TB HDDs in each (mirrors). Also, an external backup 6TB HDD (not connected to the network) and a 6TB NAS HDD backup connected to my router. At least one or preferably two should do the job for most folks. 2 backups to the master drive/s is highly recommended imho. ✌️✌️
Edited: Made edits to clarify for peeps who might be out there looking for some slightly different solutions in the future. Keep it up @UrCasualGamer!!!
Agree 💯
This is good advice. If I had to add something, you can also build your own external SSD, like I a have an ASUS TUF enclosure which is dust and waterproof. You can also pick A RAID enclosure, I have one running in raid 1, which means you can write data to 2 separate drives at the same time, which is useful if one of them fails.
that flat small usb drive isnt safe. they could easily be lost. lucky im not a modern days games fans. modern games isnt fun and it doesnt make sense. i can play retro games all day long everyday if i wanted
nah HDDs can easily last 10 years and still work
Convenient video. Just an hour ago I was wondering what would be the best way to go about this. I'm looking for more of an all-in-one solution though. I guess that's probably not optimal though.
That was informative. I didn't realize the life of a external hd was so short.
Why just external drives? Hdds are dirt cheap. I've seen used 8tb hdds with 100% health for $35, even on eBay. I'm considering getting one even though I already have about 6tb in total
Yea, you can do that, but the reason I didn't mention them is because most people don't know how to install them.
I also used MultiPar or QuickPar to ensure / fix (if error) / verify checksum my massive ROMs
I have them stored at three places and it is rather large now around 5TB all said. I am glad I bought mine when prices were lower. I got a 5 TB SSD for $90 and a few 1TB to 4 TB NVME's for $39 to $100 each. All total I got 18TB of storage for under $420.
how the hell u got a 5 tb ssd for 90 bucks????
@@cynz5294 On clearance at Walmart. It is a WD Black external SDD.
@@cynz5294 I gotta second that… what 5TB SSD did you get for that price? That’s a bit suspicious to me tbh
I have every single Nintendo game.
Question what about storing Emulators should I use use my C drive or external drive
I would still prefer SSD D: drive (not os).
I use a 4tb external hard drive for my whole collection. But I have been slowly burning all of my roms to optical discs as archival storage. Optical discs give you a physical backup that lasts multitudes longer than an HDD or an SSD. Many are graded to last over 100 years! Just store in room temp, away from sunlight. Smaller storage capacity? Actually, I prefer it. Storing collections on multiple discs lessens the risk of losing everything in the event that a single disk gets destroyed.
8TB damn my man has access to Nintendo servers lol
🤣😂🤣
Is a usb ok
Hello friend I'm playing God of War Ascension I want a very good setting for my computer. He stops and lags during the game. Features of my computer. Ryzen 5 5600X .RTX 4060TI . Thank you for your help
Unconventional option is a dual layer BD and stored off in a CD jacket. You can go up to 100gb on them but usually locked to 50gb. Where these shine is longevity and the lwck of moving parts.
Disc rot becomes a problem in time, but its only 20 or 30 years since the disc based games have started to show these signs of physical age. A high quality burn, stored in a CD jacket in a cool, dry place can hold many items and are relatively cheap.
You could store the entire ps1 collection for north america in a 20 disc tray and still back up no intro cartridge collections that span up until the Nintendo DS.
With another jacket you could store the entirety of the NDS and 3DS collection and still get room for something else like NTSC Saturn.
Do ROMs get corrupted or stop working. Sorry i'm new to emulation.
Synology NAS box
i use 2 external ssd 2tb for all my roms And because of the way the games industry is going, every day I appreciate my collection more and I'm thinking of buying 2 more SSDs to make more copies.
Saving roms to the cloud as a permanent solution is a terrible idea. I play on multiple devices and I store my save files in the cloud as my go-between. If I want to quickly transfer a rom over, I will also use the cloud. But as a permanent solution, its a terrible idea.
I have a 512 GB USB drive and may get more. Gotta keep my Yuzu safe.
I store roms on a floppy drive 😅
keeping only a handful of games on your PC and the rest you store on external drives is a good option… your external drives will be at less of a risk of being dropped.
I have ally roms on a HDD. And as my back up I have them stored on my old laptop that's been alive since 2002
I stored my roms on Facebook 🗿
That's idiotic
can you tell me how you do it? i heard faacebook has infinite storage
You can get a hard drive with a large capacity and a hot swap usb dock for the best price. Paid cloud storage is expensive. You need two drives. One for backup.
Trust I have back ups cause one of my external drives bit the dust. Always good have options to store roms
Im building a new pc and i always give my internal drives a rom storage. But in this pc my case can hold 10 hdd and i bought a Seagate 8tb hard drive for my roms. And im also playing ro buy more hdd for my anime collection that ive collected over the years
Didn't know they are still making cases with that many drive slots, but that's great. I would throw 2 hdd in there to backup the backup.
@@UrCasualGamer look up thermaltake lv 500 case is the medium size and is 10 different areas where you can put 3.5 and 2.5 hard drives
From my past experiences, the best practice would be to keep all your ROMS and emulators (zip) on one external drive and a back up external drive ….. on my laptop and Legion Go I have the emulators & roms I will most likely use….. and I keep a portable copy of RetroBat or Launch Box …. with games… on a thumb drive…. copy games from externals when I feel I need something new to play
Can I just keep my emulator on my SSD and the Roms on HDD
I highly recommend creating at least one backup drive, too. One day you'll be glad you have one, believe me. Every drive will die sooner or later, if you did not make a backup, you'd have to download all files all over again.
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What about a micro sd card, I been using that for about two years
What about a flash drive? even with just 100gb especially for those that don't game much
Yea, they will work as well. Plus, they last just as long as an ssd but mostly come in smaller storage amounts and slower speeds, which is fine for emulation. Dang kinda wish I would have mentioned them in the video now.
@@UrCasualGamerthanks King! 🙌
@@UrCasualGamermake a part 2
bro how can download games for pcsx2 please tell me
My small 256 and a couple of 4tb internal hard drives are 8 years old and still going strong.
That's great what's the brand?
@@UrCasualGamer seagate. I've always had great luck with them and all of my drives are from them because they're also usually the cheapest
I'm a newbie. Should I keep the emulators on my C drive and the roms on an external hard drive OR should I have both the emulator and their roms on an external hard drive??
I wouldn’t recommend keeping anything related on your C: Drive if you can help it. I have been keeping nothing but Windows on it for just about 20 years now. If something goes wrong and you have to reinstall Windows, you HOPEFULLY shouldn’t lose all your files on the other drive/s 🤞
Thanks for the tips, dude!
You seen whats happened to Vimms Lair?
Do i backup them in rar or zipped ?
I got 20tb hard drive put roms on
Thnx dude this is what I wanted
Same. Your video production is on point 💯
I'm sure he means porn, not Roms?
plug drive into your router?
On every drive i have
100gb mdiscs? 🤔
$100 for 12tb-18tb HDD (3.5")..... and $150 for 2TB SSD.... been working so far!
how about a NAS? it's like cloud storage with a one-time fee. only downside is the increased light bill and buying the hardware for it. regardless, it works great for me
Hey UrCasualGamer, I think you could make a tutorial about Lossless Scaling, it's something that increases your FPS by a lot and is great on old games
I would NEVER recommend getting an external HDD. Yea, they are more affordable but I had one die on me in less than 4 years and I never dropped it or let anything happen to it.
For all the good it did me, The seagate onetouch drive that I have contains 5 terraybytes of space and that's how I store all of my games in there.
Hey Shandell, I have a kind of "in-the-middle" setup to yours:
- Internal 1TB NVMe SSD (for ROMs I currently play)
- Internal 2TB SATA SSD (for archival purposes)
Well I have 8tb WD as a backup,
a 2tb Toshiba for movies and animes,
a 500gb external drive for Roms, another 500gb for pc games. So in my mini pc a 2tb nvme as main drive and a 1tb WD blue as a second drive and that’s where I stored all the roms/pc games I’m playing in the computer.
So you recommend what I already do. Oh thank god I didn't fk up.
Thanks mate
I have some backed up on both HHD and SSD external drives, common sense really.
That second Black Panther was horrible. RIP Chadwick Boseman
I got them stored on an external SSD, together with Retroarch and PCSX2, so whenever i hang out on a friend's, i just plug the drive on his PC and just play whatever we want from my collection. This is one of the biggest reasons why having the actual consoles just isn't feasible anymore, plus, digital storage on SSDs lasts longer than CDs/DVDs and consoles.
i store mind on External drivers WD 1Tb, and 2Tb and planing on buying a 4TB
I think your recommendation makes a ton of sense, and not just for ROMS or other games. Get yourself a big hard drive to use for backups, and treat it like it's fragile. Then you don't need to spend as much money on larger external SSDs for everyday use.
in my humble opinion , the best time to put all your ROMS and emulators together in one spot is if you are making an arcade machine or other device that is going to be “permanent” ; the less wear and tear on the storage devices, the better…
I store my roms on Cloud storage and my phone storage since that's where I play my classic games on
I’ve been thinking about getting a nas for a while, but never actually started saving/budgeting for one yet. Been collecting more blu rays lately and wanted to digitize them and run a plex or jellyfin server.
Been collecting roms for mostly just the things that I actually wanted to play, but now I’m thinking I should just start hoarding files just in case
I actually use to use a usb stick to store and play games on and it wasn't to bad but probably not the greatest to do. I stop using it because my other usb of that same brand stopped working and it was cheap so not surprised, so the one that is still surviving is just used for to store Linux and windows isos. I just bought a 2 TB external hard drive a couple months ago since it was cheaper than a SSD and I used up most of my amazon money.
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thats what i did with my hard drive i store file anime games then store them at a safe place never to be use. but if a must to get those game back. i been storing game that way long ago
I keep mine on and sd card which i keep in my steam deck oled
Always best to save them on SD cards
He's The BEST in This Community. 🎮💻
Call me boomer but external HDD is better.
Getting a reliable USB thumb drive makes more sense for storing roms than buying pricy external drives. SanDisk and PNY are the most reliable brands. I have a rom collection on a 64 GB SanDisk flash drive. It’s lasted me 15 years so far.
That depends on the amount of “Roms” and what systems you’re talking about
Does anyone know a good site to download Ocarina of time so far I haven’t found any that work on lime
Yes
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@@afistfulofpimples1745 then tell me tell me damn youuuuuu pls 🥲
My main PC has a 2.5TB Toshiba internal HDD for keeping classic/old games and ROM+emulator (and some game soundtracks too). If I want to play the game on other devices I would copy the ROM file to the device (and keep the save files on the cloud). Of course being an internal drive it’s unlikely to get dropped.
My PC has 4 drives in total of 7TB. 2SSD and 2 HDD.
I also have a home server with 20TB RAID6. I might move those ROM here and let other devices access to the files via VPN.
You are ready for the rom apocalypse with all that storage. My man 💪
As always, comin in clutch with some quick and clean info
Bro took the grey out his bread lol it’s ok bro embrace it
you noticed that 😂 😅I tried that just for men for your beard.
@@UrCasualGamer nah bro rock it, not many get to
Yea, I feel you on that.
@@UrCasualGamerI did, it makes you look wiser but it’s your decision either way I’ll still watch your content regardless
I have mine on a 5Tb external hard drive. Thanks for the ssd information. Have to get funds first. Great video brother stay safe
Np and good to see you in the comments
I use google drive
they say ssd has low life spand than hdd. because of read and write limitation.
The average person won't reach 35000 writes in 10 years, the lifespan of an ssd. But that hard-drive well break within 5 or 6 simply because of the spinning disc inside. That's why I say don't leave them plugged in when not in use.
yeah yeah thats one i want
i have 1.5tb and 2tb sata 3.5 hdd drives from like 2005 and they are still working
Dang, you use them daily?
@@UrCasualGamer nope, just when i need to install something....i have like 10 of them full of isos...
Quick question, would there be a difference in boot time when placing Roms or the emulator itself on HDD vs SSD?
Switch roms and PS3 games will load a little quicker on ssd, but you will still have to wait for compileing to be done on your rom. So honestly, you probably won't notice a difference between the 2.
@@UrCasualGamer Thanks man 👍
I thought SSDs had a limited # of reads and writes and HDDs didn't... I guess I was wrong? Hmmm... 🤔
Correct, but if you look at the specs you'd have to write something like 2TB of stuff every day for ten years (or some crazy numbers like that) to wear out the blocks.
Correct, but if you look at the specs you'd have to write something like 2TB of stuff every day for ten years (or some crazy numbers like that) to wear out the blocks.
You're right a hhd really doesn't have a limit. It's the movement of the parts in side over the years that kill the drive. But an Ssd can write up to 35000 times before it's pretty much done for.
Anyone using the cloud option? Is it any good? 15GB for google drive is great for my current collection of roms. What do you guys think?
Good enough if you really don't need much space. Once you're saving PS3 games 15GB is like 1 or 2 games tops.
@@omegamac10 do younprefer google drive or dropbox?
@@JQuitoriano no I use the computer's built in hard drive but this video is making me reconsider and maybe get that first thing.
You mean all those roms you haven’t paid for?
Oh no, God forbid somebody downloads a game that isn't being sold anymore
Great channel! Photographer here and novice gamer. You can also get an internal drive and buy an external drive enclosure for it. You can also get an usb drive adapter for it for sata drives etc. If you just want to dump and forget it, that’s budget solution for me. Unless you’re going to be constantly using it, then of course an actual external drive is the way to go. You can get a 4tb for less than 100 nowadays depending on the speed. You really don’t need a 7200 for data storage. There are some eco versions or 5400’s No doubt SSDs are the way to go but they are overly expensive for just storage.