Buying a new Gaming PC

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

I have an SSD at work, and one one hand I love the speed and snappiness of it.

On the other, they are much, much more prone to failure, and I live in constant worry it's going to die.

I think for a home PC I'd just go for a 7400 RPM drive. You'll also get a lot more space that way.

Eh I think the failure rates are overrated. Hard drives fail all the time, too. And you can put a hard disk at 10,000,000,000,000,000 RPM, and it will never match the latency of an SSD drive. The arm will always have to lurch over from spot to spot no matter the RPM. The beauty of SSD is in small, random read/writes, which is what makes using it so snappy.

And you get the SSD for the main local drive. Any other large programs and files go on the regular hard disk.