1 TB HDD with 128 MB SSD vs 256 MB SSD
New laptop time folks! Avid Sims 3 player - all expansions (except Katy Perry of course...) Mods and a sizable amount of CC. Question is, should I be more inclined to go for a 1 TB HDD with 128...
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@enterprise1927 - Again, sorry but your results alone do not match up with that of the vast majority of players, perhaps your usage pattern is different. And 15 GB free space is not nearly enough for Win 7 and the game to operate smoothly, Win 10 will require more like 35 GB as a minimum just for itself. From a technical standpoint, you should actually be correct (on most counts). From a practical standpoint, from what we have seen it just doesn't work that way for most players.
You are free to disagree based on your own experiences of course, but be prepared for other tech responders here to point out the same thing. We don't always exactly agree on what the game needs to run smoothly, but being mindful of space on drives that are too tight compared to real life players' patterns of usage is something that has never really sparked much debate.
There also isn't much point in continuing this discussion until such time as the OP returns with more information on these systems or has follow-up questions.
Edit: You know what? Never mind. It took me a while to connect the dots, but I believe you are the same advanced level systems builder (not sure if hobbyist or professional though that doesn't really matter) who periodically posts on MTS under a similar screen name to tell every one of us who advises players over there that we are doing it wrong.
If so, then you do have an impressive skill set, know what you are doing, and are able to react to minute differences in system performance and maintenance before problems spread that the average TS3 player will not be able to comprehend or be interested in undertaking. Sorry, I should have been able to figure that out just from your signature block.
The audience here is not going to benefit from theoretical performance on expertly maintained systems, again this is real world where overworked system components do have a tendency to weaken with age and burn out. Players can potentially waste a lot of time and money (to them) purchasing off the shelf systems that are just never going to perform for them the way that they might for someone with such deeper levels of understanding. That is why it might look like we over-compensate on recommended system specs here and that includes the drive space thing. We are here to help the players who come to us at the levels of computer system understanding that they have, not to provide advice that may well be technically correct but impractical for the actual end-users.
There also isn't much point in continuing this discussion until such time as the OP returns with more information on these systems or has follow-up questions.
Edit: You know what? Never mind. It took me a while to connect the dots, but I believe you are the same advanced level systems builder (not sure if hobbyist or professional though that doesn't really matter) who periodically posts on MTS under a similar screen name to tell every one of us who advises players over there that we are doing it wrong.
If so, then you do have an impressive skill set, know what you are doing, and are able to react to minute differences in system performance and maintenance before problems spread that the average TS3 player will not be able to comprehend or be interested in undertaking. Sorry, I should have been able to figure that out just from your signature block.
The audience here is not going to benefit from theoretical performance on expertly maintained systems, again this is real world where overworked system components do have a tendency to weaken with age and burn out. Players can potentially waste a lot of time and money (to them) purchasing off the shelf systems that are just never going to perform for them the way that they might for someone with such deeper levels of understanding. That is why it might look like we over-compensate on recommended system specs here and that includes the drive space thing. We are here to help the players who come to us at the levels of computer system understanding that they have, not to provide advice that may well be technically correct but impractical for the actual end-users.
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