Whats a good HDD for a gaming PC? mine keep chriping and i believe its time to replace it...

whats a good HDD for a gaming PC? mine keep chriping and i believe its time to replace it, do i have to research which HDDs are compatible with my PC or does it not matter?

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SSD's are supposedly better for gaming. You should find out if it operates out of the south side bridge or the flux capacitor before purchasing though.

i heard these barracuda's power pretty much makes up for an SSD

what's your current HDD?

A 7200RPM HDD is perfectly fine for a storage drive. You'll want to run your OS and any games with significant load times from SSD though.

just backup important shit and use it til it dies. if you havent had any performance issues, random crashes, etc. don't waste your money.

trying to ind out, just figured out i als only am pulling 8G memory from my RAM. but what was funny was when i had it installed incorrectly i was pulling all 16G, now when i 'fixed it' and installed it according to the manual it went down to 8G in task manager.

A standard mechanical Hard Drive Disk like this one becoming quickly outdated already. It pretty much has no use or benefits anymore other than the fact that they can come in large sizes to use for mass storage, but they are NOT a good choice for performance or longevity. An HDD will always be limited by the interface it plugs into, SATA or SATA3. SATA speeds can only go so high, somewhere above 500mbs. What you want to get is a PCI-e M.2 Solid State Drive. The M.2 interface offers you over 3000mbs read and write speeds which is WORLDS faster than any HDD, also it has no moving mechanical parts so the life of these drives are much better. Make sure your motherboard has an M.2 slot or a free PCI-e slot to buy an adapter that will plug into the slot allowing for an M.2 drive to be installed on it. Do not get a hard drive disk.

trying to find out, im currently using an Asus Z270e mother board

Yea on that motherboard you do have an M.2 slot supporting the standard size "2280". Its the vertical slot located right above your PCIe slot where your graphics card probably is right now. There's a lot of options available for you now that you know this. You can get 1TB drives with great read and write speeds at a little over 100 bucks. If you wanna throw down on the best that you can get then buy a Samsung 960 or 970 M.2. But you can still find awesome ones that aren't overpriced with similar speeds from other manufacturers. Check Newegg for M.2 drives and limit your search for the 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 drives with a Type M key and see your options. Look at the read and write speeds and you should be good with whatever you choose from there.

thank you so much! now just trying to figure out why when i 'fixed' my RAM placement its only picking up 8G instead of the 16G i had before 'fixing' it

Only thing I could say to that is some motherboards require the RAM to be in specific DIMMs, the name of the slots RAM goes in. Try different configurations like putting it in DIMM 1 and 3 or DIMM 2 and 4. If you still don't get them all to register, try just putting one at a time to figure out which one is the one that's fucked up, and replace/RMA it.

see i believe i had my ram in A2 and B1 and it read all 16G, then i set it up hoe the mother board manual said, in A2 and B2 and it reads only 8G. so im about to put them back how it worked before in A2 and B1. im an amateur with computer building if you cannot tell lol. this gaming PC is my first

Anyone who is here saying anything other than a SATA3 SSD is a moron

sorry for bad typos, on phone right now trying to fix PC

Running into problems is coincidentally a great way to expand your knowledge with this stuff.

which one do you reccomend?

agreed!! i love learning about all this stuff

SATA3 SSDs are considerably slower than a PCIe M.2 SSD. A simple Google search or literally ANY benchmarks will show that. You could get the slowest bottom of the barrel M.2 drive and it would be faster than the top of the line SATA3 drive. The SATA interface is the limiting factor..You're retarded and uninformed user please dont give anyone computer advice ever.

so with the SSD i have no need for an HDD? I see many people have both

You can definitely have both. The only reason nowadays why people have a standard HDD is if theyre just carrying shit over from another build and don't want to fill up their main SSD. Or their motherboard doesnt have an M.2 slot for the newer shit so they just stick with an HDD. Or they need very large mass storage because m.2 drives don't go up to the capacity that you might find a HDD like 4TB and up. But ideally if you wanted to have both, just make sure your operating system is installed on the M.2 SSD and NOT the slower HDD.

okay so if i get a SSD, reinstall windows onto that instead of the HDD?

Yea 100%. I'm sure you found that with your previous computers, over time daily operation outside of games just got slow and choppy and not as snappy anymore. Thats because of the shitty 7200rpm HDDs, they will ALWAYS slow up overtime and this is something you will not experience if the OS and main programs you use were installed on the SSD. Startup, file transfers, programs, operation and everything will always stay quick and snappy and fresh feeling. Mechanical drives kill themselves from use, SSDs have no moving parts and use flash memory so this is not a problem you'd experience.

okay i will invest in one, thank you!! which ones do u reccomend?

There's a shit load of options that are compatible for you if you look on Newegg and filter those things I said earlier but. For a 1TB drive the best value with very high performance would be the Corsair MP510 or the Silicon Power one. Both very high end speeds, 3400mbs read 3000mbs write for around 120 bucks. But go look at a few of them so you can learn about an yourself

i'd love a good 2TB one, but thank you!! you were all so helpful. have a good day everyone!!

hard drive its self doesnt matter, you want an IDE drive. They have thicker cable so the data goes faster.

Get a Quantum Fireball SCSI drive. They're the absolute fastest.

Don't be a fucking chud and get another mechanical drive.

Get an SSD and be happy. You can get 2TB Samsung 860 QVO drives pretty cheap.

If you MUST cheap out, then get a hybrid. The Seagate FireCuda (Gaming edition) is like under $100 for a 2TB.