So I'm building a PC around the beginning of next year (I know I'm planning this early but I'm excited and want to get a rough idea of what's what) and I can only afford a hard drive OR SSD. The HDD would be a relatively fast 1tb, not sure of model or anything yet but I would make sure to get a decent one lol. For roughly the same price I can get a 120gb SSD. I have an external hard drive I store almost everything on so storage isn't going to be an issue, what I would do if I went for an SSD is take the external hard drive cage apart and install the hard drive inside the PC as a storage drive (it's a 3.5 inch sata drive so would work).
So what I'm wondering is, considering I have other means of storing mass data, and can only afford an SSD OR HDD, is the considerable speed difference of an SSD really worth the massive difference in space? Like, would I really notice it or are all these people with SSDs just under the illusion it's faster cause they paid so much? I've seen benchmarks but does the speed difference really translate into general PC usage and gaming? Also what was all the fuss a while back about SSDs performance degrading over time? I never read much about it but was any of it true?
Another thing, would it be better to install games to the SSD or to the storage drive?
Haha, sorry about all the questions but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to SSDs, never really taken much interest because I never thought I'd actually be able to own one. Also, first thread! Yay!
So what I'm wondering is, considering I have other means of storing mass data, and can only afford an SSD OR HDD, is the considerable speed difference of an SSD really worth the massive difference in space? Like, would I really notice it or are all these people with SSDs just under the illusion it's faster cause they paid so much? I've seen benchmarks but does the speed difference really translate into general PC usage and gaming? Also what was all the fuss a while back about SSDs performance degrading over time? I never read much about it but was any of it true?
Another thing, would it be better to install games to the SSD or to the storage drive?
Haha, sorry about all the questions but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to SSDs, never really taken much interest because I never thought I'd actually be able to own one. Also, first thread! Yay!
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