A friend of mine is looking to build his first gaming computer and has been driving me crazy when it comes to his choice in storage.
He wants to spend $520 on a 500GB Samsung Pro Series SSD, despite the fact that he'll save about $150 by getting a 256BG Pro SSD to install his OS and resource hog games on and a 1TB WD HDD for everything else.
He argues that he'll never need more than 500GB, so spending time and money on a dual drive setup would be wasteful. Frankly I'm getting furious trying to convince him that he should go with the cheaper, larger storage space and spend the money he saves on a better GPU or CPU, which he doesn't care to do.
Will you guys please chime in here and tell us what you think? Is it a better idea to spend more money on a single SSD, or less money on a dual drive setup that offers more space without sacrificing speed?
He wants to spend $520 on a 500GB Samsung Pro Series SSD, despite the fact that he'll save about $150 by getting a 256BG Pro SSD to install his OS and resource hog games on and a 1TB WD HDD for everything else.
He argues that he'll never need more than 500GB, so spending time and money on a dual drive setup would be wasteful. Frankly I'm getting furious trying to convince him that he should go with the cheaper, larger storage space and spend the money he saves on a better GPU or CPU, which he doesn't care to do.
Will you guys please chime in here and tell us what you think? Is it a better idea to spend more money on a single SSD, or less money on a dual drive setup that offers more space without sacrificing speed?