We are almost done with buying items for our desktop build. Only other things we need to purchase are hard drives/ operating system.
When purchasing your hard drive you need to look at what you want to do. You can choose between a standard hard drive with platters in it, or you can choose a SSD that has no moving parts. A standard hard drive is cheaper per Gigabyte (GB) but have a slower read/write speed. A SSD costs more per GB, but has a faster data transfer rate. There is also a third option that you can pick, you can find a hard drive that has a combination of SSD and platter hard drive components. These are refered to as hybrid hard drives.
The Hybrid Drive gives you quick loading speeds, allowing you to start Window’s in under 10 seconds.
We chose to go with the Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive. This will give us quick start up’s with plenty of room for storing all our movies and whatever STEAM games we decide to play. Our motherboard has room for up to 4 hard drives, so we can add more in the future if needed.
