PC noob wanting to get into PC gaming

[Zkuq]

Pemalite said:

Zkuq said:

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.

Actually in the setup I described, it sort of will. That's the point. You can set up the computer to use an SSD as a swap area for the HDD, which is I believe functionally the same as having a single SSHD without an SSD or HDD. In that setup, you can't manually use the SSD for anything; the computer decides what it does with it. In practice, it caches the most used files on the SSD so they don't have to be fetched from the slower HDD.