How much storage for a gaming/editing pc?

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Originally I was going to just get a 1tb western digital caviar blue to pair with a 120gb samsung 840 evo, but I am reconsidering getting a larger hard drive. If I am doing moderate video editing; not insane amounts, but a decent amounts. Will I likely run through 1 tb fast?
 
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Short answer, get this 2TB Seagate drive: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001

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You don't really give enough information about your video editing to help.

My dad's video camera uses a LOT of space on full quality (over 10GB per hour). So you need to estimate how much video you're talking about, as well as do you store downloaded videos/files, and do you intend to buy lots of games?

You also should use a program like Acronis True Image to make periodic backup Images of your SSD and that will use up some space.

*One advantage of a larger capacity drive is that it will perform better on average. The INNER Platter spins slower so you read/write about HALF the speed as the outer edge which is...
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Just as a gaming rig, after 1 year Im at 400 gigs used.
Depending what you use to record you may need more storage (Im looking at you fraps).

Thing is, you can get 1TB, then have a desktop gadget that live updates with disk usage, when you start to run out, its simple to drop a second, third, etc drive in.
 
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I'm probably going to try to use nvidia shadowplay with my gtx770, but let's say I did use fraps, would that shred storage space like crazy?
 
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I have a 480 GB fast SSD as my boot drive and keep about 400-500 GB of games on a secondary 960 GB SSD - that is several years worth of games a lot pf which I have not played right through. I also have 2 x 500 GB drives in RAID 1 for important documents and 2 x 2 TB drives in RAID 1 for other stuff. I've hardly used any of the space 2 TB drives. Right now 2 TB is about optimum in terms of $/GB so I'd go with one or two 2 TB drives.
 
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Short answer, get this 2TB Seagate drive: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001

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You don't really give enough information about your video editing to help.

My dad's video camera uses a LOT of space on full quality (over 10GB per hour). So you need to estimate how much video you're talking about, as well as do you store downloaded videos/files, and do you intend to buy lots of games?

You also should use a program like Acronis True Image to make periodic backup Images of your SSD and that will use up some space.

*One advantage of a larger capacity drive is that it will perform better on average. The INNER Platter spins slower so you read/write about HALF the speed as the outer edge which is why defragging software moves things like Boot Files to the outer edge.

So on a 2TB drive those same files would be when the drive is 50% full and access speed would be closer to 80% maximum instead of 50% maximum.
 
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Wow that HDD seems like a steal. That's even less than a 1tb caviar black. I will go with that one, thank you for the link.
 
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Since the price of the 2 tb one is so cheap now for the seagate I will go with that and see how it pans out. In the future though I may have a set up similar to yours, but this is just a starter kit I guess you could say, for now.
 
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