New hard drive for games and storage.

[hbriggs]

Hello

Built my first pc today it has a 128gb ssd for boot which is really quick,but i dont want to put many of my games on there so what drive will people recommend for games,

i also want a drive for films should i put the games on one and storage for music and films on another?

Will hard drive prices reduce any time soon?

ive been looking at 3 drives a 500gb and two 1tb drives

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/500gb-wd-wd5000aakx-caviar-blue-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-16mb-cache-8ms

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-seagate-st1000dm003-barracuda-720014-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-cache-8ms-ncq-oem or a samsung spinpoint f3

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-western-digital-wd1002faex-caviar-black-sata-iii-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-cache-8ms

any advice would be great

thanks in advance.

 

[jsrudd]

Both the WD Black and the Samsung Spin point F3 are great drives.

 

[hbriggs]

okay but would there be much difference in performance?

 

[moornix]

Hard drive prices are up due to flooding in Thailand last year that severely damaged factories. Last article I read stated that hard drive prices are going to be relatively high until 2014.

1 TB should be plenty of space for both games and music. There really isn't much of a reason to separate them.

 

[hbriggs]

yeah i doubted it would be any time soon, i wish it was back to 40 quid for a 1tb spinpoint.

will the performance difference between them be worth the £20 difference?