CUDlybunny
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PC upgrade time? PC 4 years old.
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Unless it's a PCI-e SSD. No speeds like it!!
supersunbird
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Those speeds, but those prices
One day when I'm rich after I've married Bill Gates's daughter I'll buy 5 of these:
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Z-Drive-Series-Maximum-ZD4CM84-HH-3-2T/dp/B005HU0LT8/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=063SX5KAH94NWX16V5YC
Lol those customer reviews made me shed a tear from laughter.
RogueTr00per
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Why not a hybrid drive instead of an SSD, then you get some speed and some space?
I'd rather go full SSD. A 256GB or 512GB SSD is way more than enough storage space in my opinion. Provided you don't store any other crap on the SSD or your desktop, you will most probably not fill up that space. I'm using a 500GB harddrive as primary at the moment (I know, 2000 BC called, they want their caveman back
) and it is almost never full unless I start storing movies or stuff on my desktop. With just games and applications it almost never gets full. And if it does, just uninstall games you don't play anymore. I uninstalled Far Cry 4 the other day which I haven't played in months and it freed up like 25GB.
supersunbird
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Space is not a issue on desktops in my opinion. Can have many big HDDs easily and a SSD where needed.
The benches on true hybrid drives have not impressed me.
And a Western Digital Dual Drive (that's one drive with 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD in one, two partitions under windows) is the best for laptops if you cant go 512GB SSD or bigger. On my cheap HP250 Celeron laptop, windows boot time to ctrl+alt+delete screen is 26 seconds flat... in Windows 7!
+1
A 512GB SSD is more than enough storage for installing programs. If you want storage for games (the ones you download off those "illicit" sites
) or movies or whatever, buy a 4,5 or even 6TB HDD to store that on.
RogueTr00per
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Fair enough. I have a 256gb SSD and my problems are related to physical space in my desktop tower case. My newly acquired 2nd hand gtx 570 overlaps with the space where 2 HDDs could go. I now only have two slots where I can put two HDDs. My SSD floats around as I need a bracket to downsize a 5 1/4 " bay or a 3.5" bay down to a 2.5" SSD size.
I may need to upgrade to a 3TB or 4TB soon as my 2 x aging 1.5TB HDDs are pretty much full, ever since my 2TB gave up the ghost a while back.
I may need to upgrade to a 3TB or 4TB soon as my 2 x aging 1.5TB HDDs are pretty much full, ever since my 2TB gave up the ghost a while back.
I'd say 4TB would be a good choice. It just sucks when it decides to die on you though
Have a friend who had like 3 2TB harddrives die on him all at once. Sad, sad day. But it's bound to happen no matter what HDD size you get. But it's a bit rare that I've seen harddrives younger than 4 years fail. My 500GB is 5 years old or so and still going strong. Although the buzzing noise it makes now and then is a bit annoying at times 
Which case do you have?
Ive got a 64gb SSD just for the OS... Love it, boots up into windows under 10 seconds... Do you like AMD? You may want to go compare against Intel range on a site called 'cpuboss'... I'm not really aware of any apps that currently make use of the full 8 cores AMD offers? Thus it might be better getting a quad with more cache per core than have it split between 8 cores? P.S. i recently bought a thermaltake core v21 case and love it! You can prettymuch mount anything in any way inside the case, go check it out...
RogueTr00per
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I have a:
Coolermaster RC-335 , Elite 335 , Windowed side panel , No psu , black : tools free ; 2 x front usb + audio in/out - 4x 5.25", 1x 3.5", 6x 3.5" hidden - 1 x 120mm fan support upto 2 - atx
It looks almost identical to this pic:
Bought two brackets today to downsize a 5.25" bay down to 3.5" (for one of my HDDs) and a 3.5" bay down to 2.5" (for the SSD).
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I'm not a fan of cases with that HDD orientation, I prefer the hard drive cages to be rotated 180 degrees so you simply slot them in sideways, takes up less space back-to-front in the case.
Looking at that image surely the gpu can't be taking up more than 2-3 hard drive bays leaving you with 4 free?
Looking at that image surely the gpu can't be taking up more than 2-3 hard drive bays leaving you with 4 free?
supersunbird
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Well, I am partial to AMD, was generally good value for money in the past. And since I have a 4 year old motherboard (that costs about R1400) that can take a new AMD CPU it would be wasteful to have to buy another motherboard.
I've decided I will just go with the SSD upgrade for now, that's the only time my PC feels slow for me, on startup, login and shutdown.
RogueTr00per
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I also have power cables in the way. In retrospect if i cut the cable ties restricting my ability to move things around i might get some joy.
Cool, just remember technology has progressed and that even though your mobo can take a new cpu, the components on the mobo are older/slower than the components of a new < R650 mobo... Go do some research about SSDs(i once saw a great comparison table with various brands/models) even though there are no moving parts, some have better read/write speeds than others and there is a limit on the life of an SSD(meaning there is a certain number of times you can access data on the SSD before it gets corrupt/unstable) however for an average user, this would be considered a couple of years of use... Do some research and goodluck making your decision
supersunbird
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RogueTr00per
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For gaming, is that to say that 4gb RAM will suffice as a minimum, 6gb is enough, 8gb is more than enough?
I have 4gb RAM in my system.
I have 4gb RAM in my system.
Chevron
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Yeah 4GB minimum, but you really want 8GB.