Should i get an SSD And a HDD or?

[Britler]

I am thinking about building a new pc and i want to get an SSD for my OS, but i was thinking if i get a small SSD for my OS, then i get another SSD for my Games/Programs, would my games and programs start up just as fast as if they would if they were on the same SSD as my OS.?

Kinda confusing... thats why i am asking

 

[USAFRet]

SSD #1 for the OS and applications.
HDD for games
SSD #2 for games, only if you have enough budget for a large enough SSD.

"small SSD for the OS" = 250GB. Don't bother with anything smaller.

 

[rhysiam]

There's limited benefit to putting games on an SSD. You will get faster load times. In lots of games, particularly multiplayer games where you have to wait for everyone to load in before starting, that's entirely irrelevant. For some games it is nice. Witcher 3 for example, can take a long time to load a save on death, or fast travel to a new location. I would have loved to have Witcher 3 on an SSD. But in the end of the day, it's definitely not essential and should only be considered if you have a healthy budget and an otherwise high end system with no obvious upgrades required.

If you've decided you do want your games on an SSD, then you're almost certainly better off with a single large SSD over two smaller ones. Larger SSDs are usually inherently faster because they can split the writes over more NAND channels. And until you reach the very largest SSD capacities where prices start to take off again, a single large SSD is far, far cheaper than two smaller ones.

Normal desktop usage and gaming really doesn't push SSDs very hard at all. So even in the unusual situation where a game and your OS are making demands of the SSD at the same time, it's very unlikely to stretch an SSD to the point that performance becomes an issue. There might be the very occasional situation where a game + OS asks so much of a single SSD that it performs a little slower than two separate SSDs would have. But for the rest of the time (the vast, vast majority of the time), going with a single drive will be both cheaper, and perform better simply because of it's higher capacity.