The Biannual-Out: Beware of Bill Aims! :O

[Slacker Magician]

I'd avoid buying piece by piece sans maybe the case. An i5 2500/2600/3570/3770K with a modest GPU will run all those games and emulators without any trouble.

[Grouch]

just took a quick look at boards came across this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIA6ZP5739851
seems pretty good.

[deadlegion]

Yeah plenty of PC dudes recommend ssd for primary drive because of the increased read/write speeds. Also reliability has been an additional reason for using them, but they can fail just like any other drive...even when quite new.
No reason why you can't use a larger capacity sata drive though, just depends what your priorities are really.

[Grouch]

Yeah plenty of PC dudes recommend ssd for primary drive because of the increased read/write speeds. Also reliability has been an additional reason for using them, but they can fail just like any other drive...even when quite new.
No reason why you can't use a larger capacity sata drive though, just depends what your priorities are really.

so it really just boils down to price than?

[deadlegion]

so it really just boils down to price than?

It's basically $$ per TB if you don't care about having the fastest read/write speeds.

[deadlegion]

By that I mean you don't necessarily go for the largest HDD you can afford, you go for the sizes that are good value for capacity. As I said you only really need 2 internal HDDs max, you can use externals for everything else and always upgrade the second internal later on when it's worth doing.

[Gypsy]

By that I mean you don't necessarily go for the largest HDD you can afford, you go for the sizes that are good value for capacity. As I said you only really need 2 internal HDDs max, you can use externals for everything else and always upgrade the second internal later on when it's worth doing.

DL HDD array.

[deadlegion]

I believe Inferno had a SSD fail on him when it was fairly new.

[deadlegion]

I'm sure somebody obsessed with racial purity will come along and poo-poo what I posted. Because all of my hardware is potato anyway.

[Slacker Magician]

I'm sure somebody obsessed with racial purity will come along and poo-poo what I posted. Because all of my hardware is potato anyway.

No one is going to argue that SSDs are garbage for storage. Internal or external is a point of preference if it's only for storage. Either configure the power settings to turn off inactive drives or use an external option(s) .

[Grouch]

[Zaladane]

I imagine price is a concern from what you're saying Grouch. You could always grab a small sata drive to start or even just yank one out of a laptop until you save up for more impressive hardware.

[Grouch]

I imagine price is a concern from what you're saying Grouch. You could always grab a small sata drive to start or even just yank one out of a laptop until you save up for more impressive hardware.

price is only a concern because I really don't need some uber gaming rig.
a laptop drive is an option since I have this one that's only a year old and 500gb building a desktop means I really have no use for this old laptop other than maybe as a backup but with the screen dying out on it it'd only serve as a desktop(which is what I'm using it for right now)

[Zaladane]

price is only a concern because I really don't need some uber gaming rig.
a laptop drive is an option since I have this one that's only a year old and 500gb building a desktop means I really have no use for this old laptop other than maybe as a backup but with the screen dying out on it it'd only serve as a desktop(which is what I'm using it for right now)

There ya go! 500gb is a start!

I have 2 laptop drives just dangling in my desktop right now

[Grouch]

There ya go! 500gb is a start!

I have 2 laptop drives just dangling in my desktop right now

I was thinking about it last night but I wasn't sure if you could hook up a laptop sata to a desktop. I also thought about the possibility of putting it in an external case and using as an external hdd for storage.