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Gaming storage advice

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SSD or HHD better for gaming rig?

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April 8, 2013 2:10:00 PM

Looking at building a gaming rig, don't know much about the SSDs as far as desktops go, just starting to read about them about so looking for some advice. if i get around to building my new gaming rig like i want am i better off sticking w/ a traditional HD or would i benefit more from getting an SSD. If i'm better off with a traditional drive, what kind of speed or raid set up would benefit me best? Size isn't a big issue, 100gb honestly would probably cover me, 500 would be overkill since i will not being storing much other than whatever game i'm playing at the time. My lat gaming rig i built about 7+ years ago i had 2 70gb 10,000rpm HDs in a raid 0 setup.

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April 11, 2013 5:39:12 PM

Games took up much less space 7 years ago. They can take up to 10-15 gigs now. I would recommend getting a small SSD for your system drive and a ~500 gig HDD for games/storage.
April 11, 2013 6:06:29 PM

What siviline says is true, most games are 10GB+ now-a-days (because apparently developers don't even care about making things small anymore). SSDs are expensive, and if you can throw down for one, definitely a great route to go. Some warning though:

1) HDDs have an incredibly high failure rate right now. Look at recent reviews on any site (like Newegg or Amazon) and you will see at least 30% of reviews are DOA reviews.

2) When an SSD crashes, all data is lost. Forever. There is no chance or hope of recovering it. SSDs are becoming much more reliable now and I wouldn't worry about this too much. :D  SSDs as boot drives are awesome in themselves. I would recommend the Samsung 840 series (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...).
HDDs can have the data recovered for free/cheap if there is no mechanical failure (head crash, etc.); however, if there are mechanical issues, data recovery will cost several thousand US$.

I'm not trying to make you fear saving data, I just want you to be aware of the risks and offer solutions (read on)! :)  Now many people are uncomfortable with cloud storage, but it does not need to be feared. If you aren't rich (which surprisingly, most PC builders aren't, including myself) then Amazon Glacier offers incredibly cheap cloud storage (US$0.10/GB/month). I 'feared' cloud storage myself at first, but I've grown to like it! It's nice having my files backed up and not worrying about data loss very much! :D 

If you have more questions, ask around the TH forums, there are some very knowledgeable people lurking about ready to help you! ;) 
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