SSD sizing

[Bliznipa]

Hi,

 

For my ~ 1000$US gaming/ streaming pc, I'll have an i7 5820k with r9 390 and 16 GB of RAM and also a 1 TB HD. I want an SSD, I'm thinking 500 GB? Mostly for my OS, browsing etc. among other programs as I am willing to invest in speed. But I am not very tech savvy when it comes to SSDs, all the SATA, PCi, m.2 and stuff all confuses me. Let's say I just have my os and something like 5 games on my SSD. What size SSD would I need? Any help with choosing an SSD would be greatly helpful.

 

Thanks!

[vanished]

You can pretty much put a system on a 120 GB one, so if we add 50 GB * 5 for the games, and then some buffer room, I'd agree with your 500 GB idea.

[Moonzy]

for now, get a normal 2.5inch ssd. PCI-E SSD and m.2 SSD are sort of more expensive, though they can be slightly faster, but as a normal user or someone that upgraded from hdd, its leaps and bounds a better experience, being slightly faster wont improve you experience by a whole lot

as for 5 games, what @Ryan_Vickers said is pretty much spot on