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hey guys what do you think is a better, a 120 gb samsung ssd + wd black 500gb or a 240gb samsung ssd. They equal to relatively the same price and i will just have os, a few programs (not huge), 6gb of music, bf4, arma 3, dayz, skyrim. I dont put movies on my computer or play many games. Thanks guys

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I would go for 240gig ssd if you really will only have that little on your rig, although it is always a good ideo to get a hdd because no matter what you will find yourself downloading tons of stuff and then you will end up deleting things that you want but just dont have the space for

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honestly i never have much at all on my computer ahah

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I would go for 240gig ssd if you really will only have that little on your rig, although it is always a good ideo to get a hdd because no matter what you will find yourself downloading tons of stuff and then you will end up deleting things that you want but just dont have the space for

Get the 240gb SSD. And if you run out of space, you can toss in some Seagate Barracuda 3TB for like 100$ at a later point in time ;)

There's no 240GB Samsung ssd.

 

Get the Samsung 840 250GB. 

I'd personally get a 120GB and a 2TB barracuda but I need a lot of storage.

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There's no 240GB Samsung ssd.

 

Get the Samsung 840 250GB. 

I'd personally get a 120GB and a 2TB barracuda but I need a lot of storage.

I would just put your music and games on the HDD and if there are games that you want fast loading times put it on the SSD. 120GB ssd is enough for a couple of games imo.

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I would go for the SSD and HDD.

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120GB is enough for an OS drive (OS + installed programs + a few games), but you never know if you'll need the extra HDD space later. Better to have it now.

 

I personally use a 128GB Crucial M4 + a 500GB Hitachi HDD for my Gaming Rig. I even custom installed Windows so the Users folder is on the HDD, so my desktop, docs, etc, are all automatically on the HDD.

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but you might as well go for 120gb SSD + 1tb HDD, they are only slightly more expensive, if you ever want to record something with fraps, you need all the storage you can get :D

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