What to add to my Samsung 830 128GB

[Hardball]

I am getting ready for a new build and my only storage at this point is a new Samsung 830 128GB SSD that I purchased about a year ago. I am trying to decide between a 1 TB mechanical, or a Samsung EVO 250GB? If I go with the 2nd SSD, what setup would be best? OS (Win7 Pro) on the 128 or 250? Would the mechanical be the better option?

 

[G73S]

I wouldn't touch a mechanical drive at this day and age.

why not go for a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO like I did? I bought two of em and they rock! super fast

I got each one for $490 USD from Amazon

 

[tsupersonic]

If you are using an SSD for your OS, you will NOT want to go back to a mechanical drive for your OS. I would install the OS on either the Samsung 830 or 840 Evo, both should be ok. I would suggest only using mechanical drives for data (movies, pics, documents, etc.)

 

[Hardball]

The 1TB SSD would be the ideal way to go, but it's not in the budget for this build, which is why the decision is between the 1TB mechanical and the Samsung EVO 250GB.

 

[G73S]

The 1TB SSD would be the ideal way to go, but it's not in the budget for this build, which is why the decision is between the 1TB mechanical and the Samsung EVO 250GB.

I would get the Samsung 840 EVO because you will get double the size of what you currently have for installing your OS + apps or games

then when you have a little more cache getting a 2 TB HDD would be much easier since it's way cheaper

1 TB is too small IMHO as videos are very large these days with these HD quality videos

 

[Deders]

How much space do you generally need?

Not every game or program will benefit from SSD speeds. Also not much point putting media on an SSD.

 

[Freddy1765]

I just replaced a 1TB WD Blue with an 840 Evo 250, now using two SSDs for a total of 343GB of SSD storage, and that's it. Getting rid of that annoying hard drive noise was flipping amazing..
Needless to say, I don't have a whole lot of data to hold on to, and what I do have fits on an external drive and Dropbox.
I wonder how many people actually require more than, say, 500GB of storage for software and essential documents and other assorted files..

 

[G73S]

I just replaced a 1TB WD Blue with an 840 Evo 250, now using two SSDs for a total of 343GB of SSD storage, and that's it. Getting rid of that annoying hard drive noise was flipping amazing..
Needless to say, I don't have a whole lot of data to hold on to, and what I do have fits on an external drive and Dropbox.
I wonder how many people actually require more than, say, 500GB of storage for software and essential documents and other assorted files..

I personally don't, my entire videos + music + pics + software collection is 300 GB. but I bought two 1 TB Samsung 840 EVOs for bragging rights.

I also only us 3 GB of my 32 GB RAM. again, bragging rights and the obsession of having teh best of teh best :whiste:

 

[Charlie98]

If you can fit everything on the 250GB, get that and use that as your main drive. I would also recommend some sort of backup... you could use the leftover SSD (may or may not be big enough for a backup image of a 250GB drive, personally mine are in the 140GB range using Acronis, but that's me) or buy a cheap 500GB or 1TB HDD ($40-60 or thereabouts) to store backup images on.

 

[Freddy1765]

I personally don't, my entire videos + music + pics + software collection is 300 GB. but I bought two 1 TB Samsung 840 EVOs for bragging rights.

I also only us 3 GB of my 32 GB RAM. again, bragging rights and the obsession of having teh best of teh best

Not sure if serious, or.. D:

 

[Charlie98]

You can insert 32gb ssd card in the phone.

I was just going to suggest that as well.

 

[tweakboy]

Get a 1GB SSD if you had the money. Or put in a WDB 2GB sata 3.0