Please tell me if this is a stupid idea :)

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Buying a new system as soon as the AMD gpu smoke clears and wanted some thoughts on my plan for storage. A 256gb Plextor M5 extreme was gonna hold my os/games, 1 1tb WD black for game recordings, and a 2tb Seagate for everything else.

Should I just get one non ssd drive?
 
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Get whatever you like. It's just personal preference in the long run. You could also just buy a single 3 or 4 TB drive and partition it into two pieces, or keep it as one and just be tidy about things. Only difference is 2 drives generally consumes more power, produce more heat, and there are two drives that can go bad, not just one. On the other hand, if you have two drives, you could be working with two different data streams, ie, recording a game, and perhaps moving files about on the other, with less likelihood of saturating the internal transfer rate of one particular drive, but really, if you're already playing a game and recording it, I doubt you've got a whole lot else going on. :)
 
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Haha...ya was thinking of the Black for rendering/storage of video's only on it's own drive to help speed up the time. This is gonna be my only pc and wanted to know if it was "technologically a bad idea" :)
 
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No, it's a perfectly fine idea. I run several drives in each machine I own. You never know when having a separate hard drive will come in handy. :) You may find that spending extra on a hard drive does little for your overall performance, unless you are pushing some sort of boundary there. Somehow I suspect you won't be bottlenecked by the hard drive when rendering, however. Are your renders really going to demand enough from the drive to require a WD Black edition?
 
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The 2 drives totaling 3tb's will cost me $20 more then the 2tb black I was gonna get. Was told from a salesman and on a different forum that a black drive would be better, especially if I was gonna store games on it to. I've already seen that COD Ghosts for pc is gonna require 50gb's of space so that ssd can fill up fast.
 
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For my purposes, I get more utility out of capacity, than small gains in speed. Higher reliability is also questionable, in my opinion, as I rarely have drives fail on their own for me, and I've been using pretty much every brand for years. You might ask yourself what actual components go into a drive in the Black line that are far and above that much different than the other lines. If the answer turns out to be nothing, and yet, the drive performs faster, I would question if the drive is under more stress, resulting in a shorter actual life expectancy. On the other hand, you may find a longer warranty of more value, and if you plan to hammer on the hard drive, you may want one rated for a higher duty cycle than a consumer drive.

I can't really answer these questions for you. :)
 
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