Is a 480gb ssd enough space for a budget gaming pc?

[CamdenK7]

I found a great deal on an ssd: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ADATA-Premier-SP550-2-5-480GB-SATA-III-TLC-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-ASP/291544248218?hash=item43e1642f9a&rpp_cat_id=163
I will use my pc mainly for gaming and will not download music or have videos on it, but I definitely will have things like Spotify, Skype etc. Also, even with the crazy low price, is it still worth it? My gaming pc will cost around $500.

 

[voltoid27]

I'd say it is. My primary PC these days has a 400GB hard drive and I haven't run out of space yet. I have 104 games installed currently, but quite a few aren't very big (most of that number are indie games) plus a bunch of other crap and I still have nearly 50GB of space available. The SP550 is a solid SSD as well, especially for that price. Buy it!

 

[USAFRet]

Depends entirely on how many and how large your games are.
OS and a bunch of applications (Skype, Spotify, etc, etc) will all fit within 100GB easily.

Will your chosen games fit within 300GB or so?

 

[CamdenK7]

Depends entirely on how many and how large your games are.
OS and a bunch of applications (Skype, Spotify, etc, etc) will all fit within 100GB easily.

Will your chosen games fit within 300GB or so?

I think I could fit my games in. I'll have to be conservative though, probably. I plan to get games like Overwatch, Battlefield 1 (when it comes out), GTA 5, CS:GO, etc. If I do run out of space, I could buy another one and put both of the ssds in RAID 0.

 

[USAFRet]

Depends entirely on how many and how large your games are.
OS and a bunch of applications (Skype, Spotify, etc, etc) will all fit within 100GB easily.

Will your chosen games fit within 300GB or so?

I think I could fit my games in. I'll have to be conservative though, probably. I plan to get games like Overwatch, Battlefield 1 (when it comes out), GTA 5, CS:GO, etc. If I do run out of space, I could buy another one and put both of the ssds in RAID 0.

No, do NOT put another drive in a RAID 0 with this one.
Very counterproductive, and you can have another drive just be another drive letter.

 

[CamdenK7]

Depends entirely on how many and how large your games are.
OS and a bunch of applications (Skype, Spotify, etc, etc) will all fit within 100GB easily.

Will your chosen games fit within 300GB or so?

I think I could fit my games in. I'll have to be conservative though, probably. I plan to get games like Overwatch, Battlefield 1 (when it comes out), GTA 5, CS:GO, etc. If I do run out of space, I could buy another one and put both of the ssds in RAID 0.

No, do NOT put another drive in a RAID 0 with this one.
Very counterproductive, and you can have another drive just be another drive letter.

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