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Hi everyone! I'm a very inexperienced beginner who is trying to build his first gaming PC! I've always loved video games, but have only been able to play games like Minecraft on mediocre laptops thus far, hence this new gaming PC. As I know very little about the parts necessary or anything really when it comes to building a PC, I consulted a friend of mine who I know has made quite the rig for himself. (Of course, I have immersed myself in LTT PC building videos for this past week) He made two different variations on pcpartpicker.com, one at ~$1400 USD, and the other at ~$1000 USD. Here are the links to both, respectively (they might show up in Canadian dollars): https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Posaune_III/saved/jvQK3C https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Posaune_III/saved/fPCZZL I noticed that in Linus' videos, he always builds using one part for storage, usually an SSD. I asked my friend about this discrepancy (he included three parts for storage: a hard drive and two SSDs), to which his answer was: "The 120GB SSD is a boot drive, so it would have Windows as well as any programs want to put on [my] PC. That means program start times are quick and Windows programs won't interfere with load times on anything else. The 1TB NVME SSD is significantly faster than a regular SSD (~15x faster than the SSD [he] chose) which means games put on it will launch significantly faster than on a regular SSD, but NVME storage runs significantly more expensive, so it's a waste to use a drive like that for main storage. Lastly, the 1TB HDD is a storage for anything else would work with. Pictures, homework, videos, etc. because price/GB is incredibly low in comparison to the other two drives." Is he right? If so, then why have not I seen any three-part storage builds? Please keep in mind I do not know much about general parts or specs Also, any other feedback / advice is really appreciated. Is this overkill for a first PC? Thanks!