ssd or harddrive

[justin49088]

i have only enough money for either one so which is better to have in a gaming pc?

 

[JBURNS489]

I would go SSD. It doesn't help a ton in gaming except for all loading screens being faster, but it makes your entire pc feel snappy and fast. Especially if you have a fast internet connection, so you don't have to store a ton of stuff on your drive. Also, you can always add in a 2nd regular hard drive later in the future for storage, without any issues. If you install windows onto a regular hard drive now, and you want to get an ssd sometime in the future, you will be dealing with a reinstall of windows to get the most benefit of having an ssd.

 

[USAFRet]

i have only enough money for either one so which is better to have in a gaming pc?

Without knowing the actual budget, and ALL the other parts...impossible to say.
$50 in HDD goes a long way. $50 in SSD, not so much.

 

[mamasan2000]

Don't you have an old HDD? Just move that over if you do. And get an SSD.
If you only get an SSD, 120 gigs is a bit too small. Windows takes 40-60 gigs and games these days mostly take 50 gigs per game. So that's 1 game + Windows.

 

[justin49088]

Don't you have an old HDD? Just move that over if you do. And get an SSD.
If you only get an SSD, 120 gigs is a bit too small. Windows takes 40-60 gigs and games these days mostly take 50 gigs per game. So that's 1 game + Windows.

can i take hdd out of laptop?

 

[USAFRet]

Don't you have an old HDD? Just move that over if you do. And get an SSD.
If you only get an SSD, 120 gigs is a bit too small. Windows takes 40-60 gigs and games these days mostly take 50 gigs per game. So that's 1 game + Windows.

can i take hdd out of laptop?

Maybe, probably.
Again...assuming you're building a whole PC, what is the total budget and current parts selection for this?

 

[jsmithepa]

If the max size of the SSD you can afford can fit everything you want to put in it, yah, no brainer.