Starfield is almost unique among PC games for demanding – not merely suggesting or recommending – SSD storage as part of its official system requirements. As far as I can tell, only Bethesda’s galaxy-spanning RPG and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty make such a stipulation.
Are they justified? Hard to say, for now – there’s no precedent for any game outright refusing to run on a mechanical hard drive. Still, I sufficiently resent the slowness of HDDs and the lengthy load times they impose that I will latch, barnacle-like, onto even the most tenuous of opportunities to encourage upgrading to an SSD. As such, here are some solid state recommendations: a selection of our favourite SSDs that will get your PC good and ready for Starfield when it releases on September 6th.
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