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I Wanna have more storage but SSD are really expansive. I,m a gamer so what will be help full for game experience stuff like that ofcourse a SSD is more money then HDD that why I need your guys help. as an example ther are a few colors from HDD (WD) what will be good for gaming ect. is a SSD necessarily? it will help ofcourse but Idont have always the money

I will want more then 1TB or 2TB I may wanna spend 180. if one of you guys have a good reason to buy something that more expansive I will look at it but that what I will spend
 
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1) MOST GAMES do not benefit from an SSD aside from loading times

2) A few games like PREY can STUTTER without an SSD due to texture loading (no idea if they fixed that or not in Prey). That's pretty rare.

3) Stick with an HDD that fits your capacity requirements.

4) Tradeoff in HDD RPM is performance vs noise (7200RPM of similar drive architecture is faster than 5400RPM but noisier). I'd probably go 7200RPM for games though and just set Power Options in Windows to shut down after 20 minutes of inactivity.

5) *just see PCPARTPICKER storage section. filter down as needed.

DESPITE what I just said for some reason the WD BLUE 5400RPM drive is pretty good value (price per GB)...
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A lot of people use an SSD for the OS/programs/some games and a large HDD for files and less played games. This sort of gives the best bang for the buck. Significantly improved performance for the OS/ programs and lots of storage for all the other stuff.

Note that the performance improvement of a SSD over a HDD for general use is real. Faster boot, faster load of programs and games, faster opening and saving of files. In game experience is more determined by your CPU and GPU. I personally can't stand using a PC without an SSD.
 
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I have indeed a SSD for my Windows and programs what will you do a other SSD for my games or just a HDD
 
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I will want more then 1TB or 2TB I may wanna spend 180. if one of you guys have a good reason to buy something that more expansive I will look at it but that what I will spend
 
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1) MOST GAMES do not benefit from an SSD aside from loading times

2) A few games like PREY can STUTTER without an SSD due to texture loading (no idea if they fixed that or not in Prey). That's pretty rare.

3) Stick with an HDD that fits your capacity requirements.

4) Tradeoff in HDD RPM is performance vs noise (7200RPM of similar drive architecture is faster than 5400RPM but noisier). I'd probably go 7200RPM for games though and just set Power Options in Windows to shut down after 20 minutes of inactivity.

5) *just see PCPARTPICKER storage section. filter down as needed.

DESPITE what I just said for some reason the WD BLUE 5400RPM drive is pretty good value (price per GB):
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/2Qqbt6/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd30ezrz

And here's a 2TB Seagate 7200RPM: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/CbL7YJ/seagate-barracuda-2tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm006

A higher CAPACITY drive performs better on average than a lower capacity of the same RPM... for example if you filled up a 2TB HDD but compared to a 3TB HDD with the same data (so 1GB well actually 930GB or so free) then you get slightly more performance because the same data is on average spinning faster as its closer to the edges of the platter.

Can't give you exact numbers but the inner platter is often about 50% the performance of the outer platter on the same HDD.

I also recommend making backup IMAGES of your Windows (c-drive) so that may take up roughly the same amount of space as what you use of c-drive depending on your backup settings (I use Incremental, auto-delete, 2nd highest compression).
 
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Update:
You can also add an SSD and just use it for specific games. STEAM makes it very easy to move games between drive folders so you could for example tell SKYRIM to more from the HDD to the SSD.

I mention SKYRIM specifically because you can also screw up the MODS by moving the game folder so be careful. I made a backup of the un-modified (vanilla) version of SKYRIM SE then wrote down the names of all my mods so I could start over...

I won't bother going on about that here though
 
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