Well, i just ordered a new pc parts. i7-10700, rtx 3080 and all of that. Just to play WoW (not really, to play all the games for next 4 years)
It’s actually super sad, cause rtx 3080 in my country costs 1200$
Just add another SSD TB, super easy to install.
OS should really be on its own drive these days anyways.
This is 100% a troll thread, just get out now.
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Just a heads up, if you haven’t re-installed WoW in multiple expansions, your WoW folder is probably about 120 GB right now. If you re-install from scratch you’ll shave off about 45 GB of dead files.
What, only 250 gb? 1 TB is already risky, let alone 250 GB. What sort of builds even have that little space? 8 year old consoles normally have 1 TB at least.
Why not just buy an extra hard drive for extra space?
New ones come with 500gb, digital only LOL.
This is how they manage to price the console initial costs are lower. They get you with proprietary secondary storage, knowing you’ll have to get it.
That said, on a PC, you really have no excuse not to just upgrade it. Nothing is limiting you. You can even run it off a USB SSD and it will be fine.
For SATA maybe. NVME 1TB is gona be a little more.
Also wow is 70GB what that like half a of a COD patch?
Because op has no clue about computer hardware and thinks once you buy a computer you cant ever add to it without just buying a new computer.
Maybe he has a Mac
Uhh… Wha? 
Maybe in the days of Windows 98 on those mile thick laptops, but these days, it will just give you an error message saying “you don’t have any space left on this Drive!”.
It has greatly improved loading screens by like 1,000%
The game doesn’t need to be on the c-drive; just add another drive just for it. no problems!
I know I have ssd lol 
NVME M.2 drives, even non-QLC, are not that much more expensive (if at all) than SATA TLC drives.
Typical non-QLC/+DRAM/1TB 2.5" SATA SSD: Samsung 860 Evo, is around $120.
Here’s a 1TB non-QLC/+DRAM/1TB NVME M.2 SSD: Sabrent Rocket is $129.
Here’s a 1TB QLC/+DRAM/1TB NVME M.2 SSE: Crucial P1 $94
QLC is a non-issue for 99% of users.
These days, there really is little reason to get a non NVME SSD anymore unless your motherboard lacks the m.2 slots. Cost is nearly identical. And in some cases, the QLC NVME SSDs are cheaper and offer faster real-world speeds.
Fair, I just recently got a 970 EVO which was about 160. I imagine I ignored all the cheaper options. Thanks for showing me those, I may cop another one.
The 970 is fast at sustained writes and offers great durability - it’s great as a scratch drive for content creation and should last a really long time.
As far as boot/game loading/durability, QLC offers 90% of the performance of the more expensive TLC/MLC drives (thanks often to the use of TLC cache and firmware) without really any meaningful concessions.
Drive life on the 1TB Intel 660p, one of the more common QLC NVME drives, is 200TB written, with a 5 year warranty. You’d have to write the entire capacity of the drive 200 times over for it to hit its lifespan. You would have to install CoD MW (250gb) 800 times to hit that.
QLC drives tend to fall flat after long sustained file transfers, though, to around the same or worse as a regular SATA TLC drive. But for burst loading, they are a great option for regular users.
Unfortunately Linux isn’t officially supported by Blizz for WoW. I would not recommend this.
I have a 500gig SD with my OS and couple of games. I also have a cheap 120 gig which has WOW and a couple of other smaller games on it. Also have my 1 terrabyte mechanical drive which has a lot of those low resource hogging type of games like the majority of my steam library.
If you look around you can get a name brand SSD for next to nothing now and they are super easy to add to a desktop PC. IF your on a laptop you should probably spring for as big as you can afford though.
Lol been playing wow on Linux for 10 years
Been playing Overwatch on Linux for 2 years
No problems
Imagine thinking you need an extra computer instead of just buying a larger or secondary drive.