Next build - SSD + HDD? games and photo editing

[Ezekiel33]

Hey guys, I'm about to change computer in the next months and need advices for storage. Really dont know where to start. The main usage of my computer will be gaming for let's say 50% of the usage. I also like to store movies/music (flac and uncompressed files) on my computer. My gf does a lot of photo editing with Lightroom and may end using other photo editing software. We have a small family so we have a ton of pictures (uncompressed too i think.. 20 mb each picture - I know nothing about photo editing)

I need some advices on what I should go with. Should I put everything on a SSD of 1tb or more, or simply pu OS + games on sdd of 256gb and rest on a good hdd? Is there any good hdd out there that would make the photo search more fast? since we have so many pictures it takes a lot of times for them to show while opening the folders.

Thanks for the help!

 

[USAFRet]

1 x SSD of 250GB or 500GB - OS and applications.
1 or more other drives, SSD and/or HDD of larger sizes for other things. Photo work, games, movies, etc.

Also, you need some sort of backup solution.

 

[Ezekiel33]

I actually have an exernal hd of 500 gb, any suggestion for the backup? Family pictures has no price. Can't take the chance to lose any in reality.

 

[USAFRet]

I actually have an exernal hd of 500 gb, any suggestion for the backup? Family pictures has no price. Can't take the chance to lose any in reality.

You really need a dual situation.
One daily or weekly backup (internally/locally) and then something offsite. Rotated weekly or monthly, perhaps.

Anything that lives on only one drive may be said to not exist at all.