Question 250/500/1000 gb?

[Hypoltan]

I currently am planning a $1300 gaming build, and wondering how much storage I need. I don't really need that much space, so should I go ssd or a combination of ssd and hhd, and how much for each one?

 

[Max_Pare]

250Gb SSD and 2TB 7200RPM HHD should be fine, if you have some extra money in the end maybe get a bigger SSD, because in my experince it tends to get full very quick, because if you are planning to throw heavy games that take long times to load on HHD, chances are they also take a ton of space, unless you don't plant to put Windows and programs on it, in that case 240Gb should be enough. Also know that a noticeable chunk of memory will be already taken by...SSD stuff. For example, my 240GB ssd has an actual capacity of 218Gb, so keep that in mind too.

 

[Hypoltan]

250Gb SSD and 2TB 7200RPM HHD should be fine, if you have some extra money in the end maybe get a bigger SSD, because in my experince it tends to get full very quick, because if you are planning to throw heavy games that take long times to load on HHD, chances are they also take a ton of space, unless you don't plant to put Windows and programs on it, in that case 240Gb should be enough. Also know that a noticeable chunk of memory will be already taken by...SSD stuff. For example, my 240GB ssd has an actual capacity of 218Gb, so keep that in mind too.

Thank you for the input. I'm now thinking perhaps 500 gb ssd and 2 tb hhd.

 

[hang-the-9]

How much storage you need depends on you, we don't know how much you are using now or if you plan on having 20 games installed at one time.

For a gaming setup, I would not go with less than 500 gb SSD for programs and Windows and a backup disk. If you are planning on having more than 3-4 large games on the system, go with a 1tb SSD they have dropped in price a lot.

 

[hang-the-9]

Also know that a noticeable chunk of memory will be already taken by...SSD stuff. For example, my 240GB ssd has an actual capacity of 218Gb, so keep that in mind too.

Few things here, that is not "memory" memory only refers to RAM in a computer, disk storage is just storage or "disk space". Those terms don't really mean the same thing and should not be interchanged.

The size difference is not just for SSDs, it is from formatting and how you look at the storage. 1 GB is not exactly 1,000,000,000 to a computer, https://www.lifewire.com/drive-storage-capacities-833435