there's a lot of options when it comes
to picking the right storage if you're
building or expanding your gaming PC
we'll break it down so you know what the
options mean and what's the best for
your system let's get inside
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gaming with Seagate broadly speaking
when looking at gaming storage these are
the general types of drives on today's
market one hard disk drives or HDD s
these are the most common the drives
with actual spinning disks inside hard
drives are the foundation of gaming
storage and you're probably running on
one right now they have massive
capacities and low prices but include
some trade-offs like speed limits and
larger form factors to solid-state
drives or SSDs these are the fastest
consumer drives on the market and
they're built with flash technology
which means there's no moving parts
inside and they come in a multitude of
different form factors as well
the trade-off higher prices and limited
capacities and three a bridge between
hard drives and SSDs called solid-state
hybrid drives or SS HDS these are
traditional hard drives that also
include a small capacity NAND flash
drive acting as a super-fast caching
buffer so which ones are right for you
you'll want to consider four essential
questions when answering that question
one compatibility what types of drives
can my motherboards support if you want
to upgrade to an SSD but your system
only has a SATA connection you'll be
restricted to a 2.5 inch SATA SSD like
Seagate's Barracuda SSD but if your
motherboard has an nvme compatible m2
slot you'll be able to consider a
smaller m2 SSD drive like Seagate's fire
CUDA 510 you'll also want to note your
m2 key configuration the most common
keys are B which is 6 pins wide and M
which is 5 pins wide and then B and M
which has both configurations Seagate's
fire cuda 510 is an M key device
and is labeled as such there's also
physical compatibility to consider how
much space do I have inside of my PC to
spare 3.5 inch drives are great because
they provide the largest capacities but
obviously they'll also take up the most
room inside of your PC
conversely m2 SSD drives like the fire
CUDA 510 2280 are about the size of a
stick of gum
this one is 22 millimeters by 80
millimeters as noted by its 2280
specification question 2 capacity how
much storage space do I need to both
store and run my games although slower
than SSDs traditional hard drives still
come with the most storage space
Seagate currently makes hard drives up
to 16 terabytes in capacity versus SSDs
that tend to max out around the two
terabyte mark and with games not getting
any smaller you'll want to seriously
consider making space in your tower for
a large capacity hard drive a common pc
gaming setup now is to have a super fast
SSD for your boot drive and a secondary
hard drive to store your large media
libraries question 3 budget how much do
I have to spend on this build or
expansion traditional hard drives are by
far the best when it comes to the cost
per bite consideration if you need the
most storage you'll save the most money
by going with a hard drive but if your
priority is speed then SSDs are truly
the way to go as their price per I opt
is actually better than that of a hard
drive and I ops stands for input/output
operations per second which is how
quickly information can be written and
read and question for performance
what speeds and data efficiency can I
get away with for my system SSDs are the
undisputed champs when it comes to speed
2.5 inch SATA SSDs are 30 times faster
than standard hard drives and an m2 nvme
SSD is six times faster than even that
but again make sure to check what
connection interfaces your motherboard
has before determining what your
purchase options are so there you have
it a general scope of today's storage
options and the primary
considerations you'll want to make
before building or expanding your PC
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