Best storage upgrade option?

[Humble_newbie]

Hello everyone, 

So what would you do in this situation.

 

I got a decent skylake gaming pc( build still in progress) Waiting on GTX 1070. Currently it has 

1. Samsung 850 EVO 256gb

2. Hitachi 500GB 2.5" 5200SATA (Extracted from a 2010 mac)

3. WD BLUE 560GB 2.5" 5200SATA ( Extracted from a 2011 Asus)

4. 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable WD Passport

5. 1 TB USB 3.0 portable Toshiba HDD

 

Totalling at roughly about 3.2 TB of total storage.

 

Also I have a cheap acer i7-4510U laptop with 8GB DDR3-L which has

1. 1 TB 2.5" HDD

 

So the total storage as of in my house comes around 4.2 TB usable storage plus couple of USB sticks lying around. 

 

For documents, I am going to stick with dropbox, google and microsoft so that 55GB storage is out of question. Plus its synced.

So lets just say I have 4TB of solid storage. 

But excluding the SSD, pretty much everything else is non performance and those old 2.5" Hitachi and WD blue can go of anytime or keep running forever, who knows. 

 

GOALS: To upgrade both the laptop and the PC both in the next couple of weeks.

Question: Whats the best solution?

 

Now I know that I have the 2TB portable storage so I can just store my movies and all that crap on it and take it anywhere. 

But what about the other 3 HDD that I have, old and ugly.

Should I keep them and keep buying SSD's or should I get a big bad performance HDD and be done with it. 

I will also need decent storage for games, and pretty much every tripple A title is around 50GB or more.

 

So whats the best storage option. Since I will be gaming I will want performance drives. 

What are my options?

This is what I am thinking,

 

Setup 1:

1. M.2 Drive 256GB for OS and what not

2. 2x 256GB SAmsung 850EVO in Raid 0 (for gaming) (I already have one)

3. 1 TB portable storage with the PC for extra shit.

4. Cheap 128GB SSD for the laptop and the other 1TB portable Drive with it.

(Documents will be synced through drive, dropbox and microsoft cloud which is 55GB combined, more than enough)

 

Setup 2:

1. 256GB SAMSUNG 850EVO SSD (the one I already have) as OS

2. Big Bad 1 or 2 TB performance HDD

3. 256 GB Samsung EVO for laptop

 

I will keep the older drives in the pc maybe idk, or keep the 1TB from the laptop and throw the old ones out. 

What would you guys do in this situation? How would you upgrade both with the budget vs performance?

Any other ideas are welcomed too.

 

 

Thanks for at least reading and giving a fuck.

 

 

 

[Captain_WD]

On 15.06.2016 г. at 4:00 AM, Humble_newbie said:

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Hi there

 

Just a few tips from me:

 - If you are looking for upgrading your massive storage and you don't need as much storage space for gaming and applications and need more for other media, movies, music, photos, docs, etc. I would suggest to consider getting a NAS for your home. It can be connected to your router and be accessed through any device (including your PC and laptop) on the network in order to get data from and to it. It's a great way to have a redundant shared storage place for data storage and backups. A simple example would be WD My Cloud Mirror.

 

 - Gaming doesn't really rely on the storage's performance for anything but the loading times. Only a few games such as MMOs and Open World games would have their surrounding textures load faster and smoother, but again that wouldn't influence either the graphics' quality or the FPS so I wouldn't prioritize on having SSD storage for all games. A decent HDD would do just fine. 

 

 - It would really depend on how much demanding data and applications you have. A boot SSD would surely give you quite the boost and the larger it is the better it should perform and the more room for applications/games you'll have. 

 

Post back if you have any questions

 

Captain_WD.