PC noob wanting to get into PC gaming

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Zkuq said:

Ganoncrotch said:

As for your SSD/HDD combo idea, it sounds strange but interesting indeed but from the word "noob" in the thread title OP is probably not going to set that system up right now :)

Yep, you're absolutely right. It should be pretty easy to set up, but it's probably not something a total noob would want to do. And I believe the SSD+HDD combo is pretty much equivalent to having an SSHD, with the exception that you get to choose the size of the SSD.

They can actually both compliment each other, SSD is going to be faster than an SSHD, SSHD will be faster than a standard Mechanical drive. You can have all 3 in a system just fine.

Just because you got an SSD... It doesn't make the SSHD pointless, they are seperate entities, it's not like the SSD will accellerate the retreival of data from a mechanical drive.

I would still go for a larger drive than only 1 Terabyte... My Steam Library is several Terabytes large now, games are getting bigger. Get a Western Digital Black 3Tb and be happy for a few years, in conjunction with a 240Gb SSD, your storage needs should be sorted.