Posted May 30, 2020 Have I got out of touch over the last few months? I've been talking to a guy about his 10600k gaming build on this thread and I want to know what you all think - is a $200 2tb SSD a better option than a 500gb nvme and a 2tb HDD for $120? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 30, 2020 Personally I use HDD's as game drives and ssd for important programs and boot since for me the loading times doesn't matter and it's cheaper with bulk HDD storage Reminder I'm just speaking from experience so what I say may not work 100% Please try searching up the answer before you post here but I am always glad to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 30, 2020 I put all my media on HDDs. Internal and external. Everything else is SSD. The only time it sucks is moving a bunch of music. AMD Ryzen 5800X| Fractal Design S36 360 AIO w/6 Corsair SP120L fans | Asus Crosshair VII WiFi X470 | G.SKILL TridentZ 4400CL19 2x8GB @ 3800MHz 14-14-14-14-30 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Hybrid | Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB - Boot Drive | Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB - Game Drive | Seagate 1TB HDD - Media Drive | EVGA 650 G3 PSU | Thermaltake Core P3 Case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 30, 2020 I currently have a 500Gb ssd as the only storage in my system. It fits my programs and I have games in a separate partition. The only modern games I play are OW and GTA V, so I have about 50GB left for older games which are the types of games I mainly play. I am thinking of getting another 500Gb ssd exclusively for games tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 30, 2020 I put most of my games on hdd. There are a few exceptions, total war, warhammer comes to mind. I couldn't take the loading times so i moved it to my ssd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 30, 2020 I use a hdd to house movies I stream via plex and lesser played games I don't mind waiting a few more seconds to load. They're dirt cheap and work well enough for those purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 31, 2020 I'd go for the larger SSD. Games are crazy huge nowadays. He can always add a hard drive later. There's not much noticeable difference in real world usage speed between NVMe and Sata SSDs - I think there's even a LTT video about it where people picked wrong the fastest on blind tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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