mrbowler

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Hello. I am building a gaming pc, and I have been looking into hard drives. I was going to get an SSD until I read many articles saying that SSDs wear down fast. So I guess my question is should I get a small SSD (128-256gb) with a second HDD (750gb-1tb), or should I stick with a 10,000 rpm hard drive? Will I really notice a difference in gaming/noise/heat with an good 10,000 rpm HDD?
 

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SSDs are great. Best upgrade outside of CPU/GPU. Unless you transfer files between drives all day they should last quite a few years. I have had mine for a year and half now and it still performs as good as when I got it.
 

mrbowler

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Thanks for the info! I read all of these articles that are like horror stories about how you have to do a whole bunch of things to prolong the life of the SSDs or they will fail within a few months.
 


Where are these articles? If that's literally what they said without exaggeration that's nonsense.
 

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I'll try to find them again. There were 2 or 3 that gave a whole list of what to do. I didn't save them. In any case, I will definitely go with a SSD. You have put my fears to rest.