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dontknowwhatimdoing

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Ok. I'm building a computer on somewhat of a budget. I have most everything picked out except RAM and a hard drive. I will mostly use it for gaming, but nothing huge at first maybe just WOW and SC2.

I have around $100 to spend on a HDD or a SSD. I'm planning on saving for making upgrades a few months after the build.

Should I start off with the SSD, and save for a HDD? Should I skip a SSD all together, and just get a HDD? I've read that SSd's seem to have a high failure rate, is that true?

Also can anyone give me a good recommendation for what to buy?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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Personally I have an SSD on my laptop for everything, and I have an HDD+SSD on my desktop. The games go on the HDD. And I notice hardly any difference between loading games on my laptop than loading games on my desktop. So there is no real reason to want to store games on your SSD.

Personally, unlike some of you, I would go with the SSD first. Especially if you don't have a whole lot of stuff to store. If you think you can get by with 128gb of storage for a month or two, then go for it. This way, you can install your OS and all you would want on your SSD, then when you HDD would come in, you wouldn't have to clone or reinstall your OS and all of that. Plus you can have a blazing fast PC to start off with.

So basically the question is...
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Start out with a Western Digital Black and then save up for a 120GB or 240GB solid state drive. When you get a SSD you can still use the black drive for data/games.

I wouldn't recommend a SSD by itself.
You can get a Seagate barracuda, but western digital is more reliable.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WD1002FAEX-Internal-Desktop/dp/B0036Q7MV0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366841961&sr=8-1&keywords=Western+Digital+WD+Black

You only need 8GB for a gaming system so this will be perfect for you:

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-240-Pin-Platforms-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9/dp/B004CRSM4I/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1366842035&sr=1-1&keywords=vengence+2x8

You can get a Seagate barracuda, but western digital is more reliable.
 
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How big of a difference will there be with load times between this and a SSD? Why is it a bad idea to go with just a SSD?
 
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Howdy idontknowwhatimdoing,

The reason for not having only a SSD is mainly down to storage space. Mechanical HDD's are not as quick but offer much more space while SSD's are the reverse. A typical scenario for usage of both is when you have your operating system and major programs of your smaller but faster SSD and your music, files etc on your larger HDD.

As edogawa stated I would get the storage drive first (HDD) and then get the SSD when you have the cash as this way you will still be able to utilise your computer as normal. If you get the SSD first then you will have a really limited amount of storage to deal with but if you can live with that until the HDD arrives then no worries but it will be extremely limited within your budget.

I personally prefer WD HDD's and have used a variation of WD caviar Blacks, Reds and Greens depending on what you are going for but the WD Blacks are very good drives for both performance and storage, although still a fair way off SSD speed.

Also you will get the best of both worlds if you add SSD second by having a quick drive and then having an even quicker drive making the general speed and functionality seem much better! :D

Only downside is that you will have to transfer your OS installation across to another drive but it not as much of a chore as it seems with the right tools.
 
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Get an HDD and partition it in two pieces. Make the first partition the same size as the ssd you will buy and the second partition can take up the rest of the drive.
Install windows and any apps that you will want on the SSD into the small C: partition and everything else into the d: partition.
Then when you finally get an SSD you can clone c: to the SSD without having to reinstall anything; just make sure the d: partition stays d: by deleting the small hdd partition
 
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Personally I have an SSD on my laptop for everything, and I have an HDD+SSD on my desktop. The games go on the HDD. And I notice hardly any difference between loading games on my laptop than loading games on my desktop. So there is no real reason to want to store games on your SSD.

Personally, unlike some of you, I would go with the SSD first. Especially if you don't have a whole lot of stuff to store. If you think you can get by with 128gb of storage for a month or two, then go for it. This way, you can install your OS and all you would want on your SSD, then when you HDD would come in, you wouldn't have to clone or reinstall your OS and all of that. Plus you can have a blazing fast PC to start off with.

So basically the question is, do you need 1TB of space right now? Or do you only need 128GB of space right now? I can't live without my SSD's in my systems. So I'd go with the SSD.
 
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Yeah. I'm going to pick this answer. Mainly becouse I left off that I had my last computer for 7 years and I dont think I had 100GB of space used. I dont download alot at all.
Probably should have added that to my original question.

Thanks for all the help everyone.
 
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