500GB SSD. I assume you can always add a hard drive later so might as well get an SSD that's a good size so you won't have to replace it later.
I see, that's a good point thanks!
That's the way I would go as well. What's the main stuff being stored on the drive?
Well, the intention of this question in getting some opinions for a possible new pc, so i don't have any of the drives yet
Yeah, I guess the question was more of if you're going to have a lot of media on the drives and you're on a budget. If that was the case it could be a reason to go more storage vs SSD only. If it's gaming then I'd take the SSD to store more games on the faster drive.
Budget is really tight so it's gonna be a pretty simple pc, just plan to use for relatively basic gaming and daily use, i guess the 500gb ssd is the best option then right?
That's what I would go for then, yeah.
I see, thanks!
Second that, if you keep your bulk stuff like movies and whatnot elsewhere 500GB is more than enough for a daily driver box. Even if you don't have a server or use things like google drive it's cheap to grab a big USB stick or external drive later if you need it.
Can you even buy 500 GB HDDs these days? I can get 1tb drives from my local Officeworks for $63AUD, but that's pretty uneconomical when you can get 10tb drives for $360AUD.
Get the largest SSD you can, and buy a HDD later on when you can afford it. You can get slight discounts on HDDs by buying external hard drives and "Shucking" them (removing the casing and using the disk inside). You may need to do some research to work out if it's possible for the drive you want to buy though, not all are shuckable
Never understood why that is but does seem to be the case often enough. So selling the drive with extra parts is somehow cheaper than the bare drive...
I think it's an economies of scale thing, more people buy external drives than bare drives, so the price drives down? Does feel very wasteful though, I have a heap of e-waste drive cases :/
Sometimes it's because they use cheap Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives in the external enclosures. These drives are slower and less reliable than the Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) drives. Some of the cheaper internal drives are also SMR these days. An SMR drive is OK if you just want to write data to it and leave it there, and you're not too worried about the transfer speeds. But if you're doing a lot of intensive activity with many writes and rewrites, it'll slow you down.
They are often Green drives as well. But the latest 10TB ones I bought and shucked a few days ago from WD are not SMR as far as I know? If you are careful with the disassembly and buy from a place with a good returns policy you can always return it if it's SMR.
Hmm, ok, thank you!
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