We've reached a critical juncture in gaming, one which sees hard drives as simply no longer recommended or, in Starfield's case, not at all supported by modern games. In their stead are solid-state drives—faster, more efficient, and generally more reliable forms of storage for your machine.
You're likely reading that and thinking, 'Well, yeah, of course. I moved to an SSD for my boot drive years ago.' But our Jorge ran a Twitter poll of PC Gamer readers and found that a good deal still run a HDD inside their machine, around 15% of respondents, and a smaller amount let us know that they were using an HDD as their primary boot drive.
