10,000 RPM Hard Drive vs SSD for recording PC gameplay?

SlenKris

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Hello :)

I plan on building a new computer in the next few months and I am going to record gameplay on it, so I want to get a storage drive dedicated to just storing gameplay and audio files. However, I'm confused as to whether to get a 10,000 rpm hard drive or an ssd to record the gameplay to.

Because YouTube recently incorporated 60fps video playback, I want to record at 720p in 60 fps. I understand that the specs of my pc matter a lot when it comes to fps in games, but when recording, that fps usually drops. A friend of mine told me that a drive with fast write speeds usually fixes that problem because it can write data quick enough to not cause any lag.

So I don't know what to get, a 10k rpm hdd or an ssd. Which one would be faster in terms of write speeds?
 
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the other consideration you need to have is that an SSD is significantly more expensive than a HDD, especially since you want to be recording a large filesize (720p 60fps). You won't be able to store that many videos on an SSD compared to a HDD.

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the other consideration you need to have is that an SSD is significantly more expensive than a HDD, especially since you want to be recording a large filesize (720p 60fps). You won't be able to store that many videos on an SSD compared to a HDD.
 
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TTD187

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It would probably make sense to buy a mid-sized SSD for recording the videos and then later on dumping them onto a large HDD solution (Possible 2+ 2TB hard drives in RAID).