10,000 RPM Hard Drive vs SSD for recording PC gameplay?

[SlenKris]

Hello

I plan on building a new computer in the next few months and I am going to record gameplay on it, so I want to get a storage drive dedicated to just storing gameplay and audio files. However, I'm confused as to whether to get a 10,000 rpm hard drive or an ssd to record the gameplay to.

Because YouTube recently incorporated 60fps video playback, I want to record at 720p in 60 fps. I understand that the specs of my pc matter a lot when it comes to fps in games, but when recording, that fps usually drops. A friend of mine told me that a drive with fast write speeds usually fixes that problem because it can write data quick enough to not cause any lag.

So I don't know what to get, a 10k rpm hdd or an ssd. Which one would be faster in terms of write speeds?

 

[das_stig]

No competition, even low end SSD's will beat a HDD's write speed.

 

[Suztera]

Make sure you know how much storage you need for recording. if you need a lot then 1TB or 2TB hard drive is better.

 

[Entomber]

the other consideration you need to have is that an SSD is significantly more expensive than a HDD, especially since you want to be recording a large filesize (720p 60fps). You won't be able to store that many videos on an SSD compared to a HDD.

 

[SlenKris]

No competition, even low end SSD's will beat a HDD's write speed.

So an SSD will even beat a 10,000 rpm HDD? Just making sure

 

[Entomber]

an SSD will still be a few orders of magnitude faster than the fastest RPM HDDs.

 

[TTD187]

It would probably make sense to buy a mid-sized SSD for recording the videos and then later on dumping them onto a large HDD solution (Possible 2+ 2TB hard drives in RAID).