Solid state drive/HDD questions

[MusicMayne]

Currently have a 512gb Samsung pro and was debating on getting either another 500 gig ssd or 1 tb hdd.

 

What's the best HDD speed wise that is out now?

 

Spend alittle more and get the Mushkin 1tb SSD?

 

This will be mainly for gaming.

 

 

 

[Bazilias]

Currently have a 512gb Samsung pro and was debating on getting either another 500 gig ssd or 1 tb hdd.

 

What's the best HDD speed wise that is out now?

 

Spend alittle more and get the Mushkin 1tb SSD?

 

This will be mainly for gaming.   

If you store a lot of games then you should consider buying a 7200RPM HDD. If you don't have a lot of games to store then you could get another 500GB SSD.

[don_svetlio]

Get another SSD. SSDs are 4-5 times faster

[Xenift]

The mushkin one has a really good deal now.

 

And for something so reliable at the price and not having to mess around with HDD problems is real great.

[tahmidkhan123]

depends on the size of your game library, an hdd still offers way more capacity for your money than an ssd. But, if you have a relatively small games library, go for the ssd, waaaay faster. 

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there MusicMayne,

 

Gaming generally doesn't rely on the storage's performance for anything else but the loading times so the only thing you would get from the SSD are faster loading times and autosaves. FPS and graphics are not affected by this. 

A good 7,200 rpm drive would give you enough performance for gaming so if you need teh 1TB I would consider something like WD Blue or WD Black:

WD Blue: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=BM7Xr3

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=XVprqO

If 500GB are enough for your needs then by all means the SSD would be a good choice.

 

Feel free to ask if you happen to have questions

 

Captain_WD.