[SOLVED] 500gb vs. 1tb SSD

[danjm99]

Trying to decide between two sizes of SSD to upgrade my tiny 60GB OCZ Agility. I'm also running a 500GB hard drive but for the last year I've struggled for space and it's time to upgrade.

I've considered two options:
A 1TB Crucial SSD for £135.
or
A 500GB Samsung SSD, along with a new 2TB WD hard drive. This ssd also comes with a free game (AC Oddyssey). Total cost £140-150.

Realistically, I probably need around a 1000-1200GB of storage space. Which would be my best option?

I've though of a 250gb ssd even and spending the extra of other areas, but at a saving of £30, is it there really any point?

 

[USAFRet]

Entirely up to your space needs and budget.

If what you want to put on the SSD is greater than 400GB, then you need the 1TB.

 

[danjm99]

I've thought I would like to fill it with games and videos/music, but is there any point in doing this as I understand I wouldn't get any more performance other than games loading faster, correct?

What would be nice is not having to relocate all of my user area folders (downloads, docs etc.) to my D: drive and I'm 99% sure that the 500GB would be fine for doing this and the 2TB secondary drive would offer better futureproofing which I guess just about answers my question.

 

[USAFRet]

I've thought I would like to fill it with games and videos/music, but is there any point in doing this as I understand I wouldn't get any more performance other than games loading faster, correct?

What would be nice is not having to relocate all of my user area folders (downloads, docs etc.) to my D: drive and I'm 99% sure that the 500GB would be fine for doing this and the 2TB secondary drive would offer better futureproofing which I guess just about answers my question.

Videos and music is mostly pointless on the SSD.
Your playlist does not play any faster being on that drive.

The 1TB does make things easier...everything on a single drive.
More complex, though, when you need to do an OS reinstall.

 

[Dugimodo]

Some games benefit more from an SSD than others, large open world games for example load data frequently and you notice the difference with an SSD. Most games though it's just faster loading times as you say.

I split my game library between drives, games I am playing a lot are on the SSD and the rest are on the hdd. Mostly they are steam games and easily moved back and forth from the menus inside steam.

The 500GB + 2TB combo gives you the most overall storage at the expense of slow load times in some games, it's really your call how much that matters to you. I've personally been waiting for 2TB SSDs to drop to what I consider affordable.

I have a 500GB M.2 SSD for my main drive and a 2TB HDD for more storage but I like the SSD so much I eventually added a 1TB 2.5" SSD and put most of my steam games collection on it so I have 500GB + 1TB SSDs + 2TB HDD in my gaming PC but then I have a large game collection.