I run a 4790K and SLI GTX 1800's I also have a 250G Sam SSD. My hard drives are a bit older and have migrated over from 2 previous builds. 2TB 1TB 500G. I was thinking of going to 2 WD BLK 4 TB and a nother 1TB Sam SSD. As I only game on this rig is this over kill and whats the best way to set this up?
Hard Drives? How much is too much?
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4TB is too much. For a typical gamer a simple 2TB will be enough for massive collection of games. GTA V weights approx 65GB which means for a 2TB storage you can have up to 30 copies of GTA V.
I have a 512 GB SSD for OS and some games (I would get 1TB if it was today), 4TB 5400 RPM for data, and a 4TB striped array (2x2TB) for games. I suppose I have a large collection but the 4TB array is more than half full. Many games are 25-50 GB or more these days. So a total of 4 drives and this works really well for me. Of course in my stripe (built in Windows, which is a little faster than the Intel RAID 0) if one disk fails I lose it but since they are all Steam/Origin/Uplay games I can just re-download them.
Many games don't benefit that much from SSD - I put Battlefront on SSD and it was still slow as a dog to load. Some games really need to be on an SSD though, like Diablo III.
Many games don't benefit that much from SSD - I put Battlefront on SSD and it was still slow as a dog to load. Some games really need to be on an SSD though, like Diablo III.
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If your programs, games and media and the rest of what you 'might' add/delete in the future doesn't add up to somewhere around half of what you have, you've got way too much wasted space, which means you overpaid for nothing. Absolutely no point in a 4Tb hdd if all you'll ever use is less than 2Tb. You'll wear out the start of the drive long before you ever come close to filling it.
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