Storage isn’t usually the sexiest aspect of your PC, but if you’re still booting off a hard disk, just stop right now and go but an SSD. Even if you leave most of your games on the hard drive, booting and using Windows with an SSD is a far better experience. Even better, prices are now at the point where there’s really no good reason for a
Storage isn’t usually the sexiest aspect of your PC, but if you’re still booting off a hard disk, just stop right now and go but an SSD. Even if you leave most of your games on the hard drive, booting and using Windows with an SSD is a far better experience. Even better, prices are now at the point where there’s really no good reason for a gaming PC to not use a solid state drive. You can find 500GB class drives for close to $100 / £100, and 1TB of SSD storage is flirting with $200 / £200. There are even NVMe M.2 drives for newer systems that further improve performance, and one budget offering in particular competes with SATA SSDs on price.
The Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SSD is $280 on TigerDirect, which saves you $90. The smaller Samsung SSD’s are also discounted if you don’t need a full TB. the 500GB model is also discounted to $140 on Amazon .
Samsung’s ultra popular 960 Evo 250GB NVMe SSD is going for a sweet £110 on Overclockers.co.uk right now. The drive is one of the fastest and most reliable you can add to any high performance system. It’s also our best pick.
