Quit worrying about game install sizes with these future-proof SSDs
January 23, 2025
There’s one word that immediately strikes fear in every gamer’s heart: backlog. With endless games to play, it’s difficult to ignore the urge to pick up the latest multiplayer open-world RPG every couple of weeks, and games you purchased but never installed often end up lost in the dreaded backlog. When the latest first-person shooter is taking up so much space on your hard drive, what’s a gamer to do?
The clear solution is high-performance, future-proof SSDs that can keep up with the ballooning install sizes of the latest games. Wading through the options for SSDs can seem harrowing, but the choice is actually quite simple. Whether your pile of shame is filled with countless indies or massive AAA behemoths that love to gobble up gigabytes, the WD_BLACK™ series of award-winning SSDs offers top-tier gaming performance.
Purpose-built performance
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When it comes to gaming PCs, there are a lot of ways to cut costs around a build without sacrificing performance. The SSD should never be skimped on, though. Without a solid SSD that can keep up with today’s gaming demands, great titles that get bought up during sales just sit in a ready-to-install library, filling up a digital backlog. It’s simple: Games that are installed on a system are far more likely to be played.
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