Do i need a second hdd for recording?

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No. Go ahead and install both hard drives. When you're installing the OS, it will ask you where you want to install it. Install it on the drive you want, but once the installation is complete, you will need to go into Disk Management and allocate/format the second HDD to make it available.

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It's odd that You don't have an SSD in this build.

Yes, a second HDD would be very useful because that one hard disk is going to be worked to death with Windows, Virtual Memory, BF4, and recording...all at once.

Would it be beyond Your budget to buy a 128GB SSD for Windows, Virtual Memory, and VF4. BF4 requires less than 20GB for a full install. Then You could record to a 1TB HDD.
 
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i dont think i have enough money for the ssd do i get the same hdd? and do i have do install it in a certain way?
 
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Need? No.
Recommended? Maybe

With a 1TB drive, you should have plenty of HDD space to record whatever you want. What I might recommend is partitioning your hard drive into two separate drive. While you have one physical (C:\ ) HDD installed, your computer sees two logical drives (C:\, D:\ ). For the C:\ drive, I'd probably put at about 200GB and the D:\ drive, at the remaining ~800GB. This way, if your OS partition ever bytes the big one, you can reinstall it and still save all your data (stored on the D:\ drive).

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could u explain how to do that because i already bought the second one and i will probably not know how to do that, could you give me steps so when i build it on thursday i will do i correctly thanks
 
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If you've already purchased a second hard drive, just install, allocate, and format it as a second (D:\ ) drive. Your current hard drive remains the C:\ drive and your newly installed drive becomes the D:\ storage drive.

However, if it is your intent to replace your current hard drive with this new hard drive, you will need to re-install your OS and the installation process should include a section that allows you to partition your hard drive into two logical drives. The install should ask you how you want to allocate your drive. You should respond to this request with something like 200GB to 250GB for the install.

This creates a 200-250GB logical drive on yourd physical 1TB HDD (and ~750-800GB unallocated) for your OS installation. Once the OS is installed, you can then boot into Windows and go into Disk Management to allocate and format the remaining HDD space into a second, logical HDD (D:\ ) space for data storage.

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What if when I'm BUILDING the computer do I just put the both hard drives? Or do I put the first on and build the computer and then put the second? I'm new to this so how do I allocate it?
 
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No. Go ahead and install both hard drives. When you're installing the OS, it will ask you where you want to install it. Install it on the drive you want, but once the installation is complete, you will need to go into Disk Management and allocate/format the second HDD to make it available.

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