PC Upgrade Advice (storage, Pre-built)

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Davis90

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice around upgrades for a prebuilt PC that I bought on ebay quite a while ago now.

The spec is as below:

Intel i7-4790 3.60GHz LGA1150 'Haswell Refresh' CPU (Quad Core/8 Thread/22nm build process)
MSI GEForce GTX 770 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCie 3.0 Graphics Card
Intel 530 120GB High Perfomance SSD
8GB RAM (Kingston 2 x 4GB DDR3-1600 (11-11-11 timing) DRAM)
MSI B85I Gen 4 LGA1150 Mini ITX motherboard
Antec ISK600 Mini ITX Shuttle Case
Antec Earthwatts EA-550 Platinum low noise PSU

If I install a few 'large' games I find myself running out of space pretty fast now. It seems like the SSD is slightly small and might be the problem.

My question is, what would I be best adding and upgrading now - a HDD or another SSD?
Could I install another SSD alongside the one that I have? If so, any suggestions on what would be some good options to buy?

Sorry if these sound like daft questions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
 
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martinch

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You've basically got two main options - you can either add an additional device, or you can replace what's in there. If you add an additional device, you'll need to remember to make software install there (and/or move your document libraries over). If you replace your current SSD, you'll either have to migrate your existing Windows installation using a utility, or do a clean installation onto the new drive.

If you're looking to replace/upgrade your SSD, I'd recommend not going smaller than 250GB, preferably 500GB, as you've mentioned games. Ones to look at would be the Crucial MX200 and Samsung 850 EVO - both are very good. Alternatively, you could just fit an (additional) 1-2TB hard disk ...

In terms of choice, SSDs are more expensive, use less power, and have higher transfer rates and lower latencies. I would note that whilst loading games off an SSD will be faster, you shouldn't notice any other performance difference between it and a HDD (there is the possibility of less "lag" when streaming new content into the engine when playing open-world games).

Note that any new drives will need partitioning (from Disk Management) and formatting before they can be used.
 
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