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Shuaib Aliyu
By Shuaib Aliyu
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I'll be building a pc sometime in the future. I plan on gaming,streaming,and small amount of video editing(Youtube). The most I'm considering to spend on storage is $150 in total. Right now I'm looking at a hybrid setup of a 240gb SSD with a 1TB HDD. I plan on not having more than 12 games installed at one time but they will probably be AAA games. 

1.What is a good SSD and HDD to buy?

2.Should i drop the HDD for a better SSD?Is it worth it?

3.Case has slots for 2 SSDs and 1 HDD,Motherboard has a M.2 slot.Should i try to somehow fill each one up with something?

Am new to pc building

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128Gb will be too small for twelve games. For video editing, even more space will be needed on the SSD since it will be too slow on an HDD. Frankly, i don't believe Shuaib Aiyu can get what he needs for only $150.

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20 minutes ago, tj_420 said:

128GB Boot SSD.

 

2TB - 4TB HDD if you can find it cheap enough.

Based on that ssd,I'm assuming that games and other programs dont gain any benefits from am SSD. Also which ones would you reccomend? How much space does Windows 10 take actually?

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1 minute ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

128Gb will be too small for twelve games. For video editing, even more space will be needed on the SSD since it will be too slow on an HDD. Frankly, i don't believe Shuaib Aiyu can get what he needs for only $150.

How does an ssd affect video editing?

How much storage do you think i will need?

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42 minutes ago, Shuaib Aliyu said:

Based on that ssd,I'm assuming that games and other programs dont gain any benefits from am SSD. Also which ones would you reccomend? How much space does Windows 10 take actually?

Your SSD will have your OS, and the left over space you can dump files on for fast storage. Use the SSD as fast, temporary storage, but don't keep long term files on it. The m.2 SSD will be better thoughm

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14 hours ago, tj_420 said:

Your SSD will have your OS, and the left over space you can dump files on for fast storage. Use the SSD as fast, temporary storage, but don't keep long term files on it. The m.2 SSD will be better thoughm

M.2 is better than sata?

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