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.
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US DEALS:
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB 2.5″ SSD: $80, TigerDirect (save $20)
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB 2.5″ SSD: $140, TigerDirect (save $40)
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB 2.5″ SSD: $280, TigerDirect (save $90)
UK DEALS:
960GB Corsair Force LE200 2.5″ SSD: £193, Amazon – Nearly 1TB of SSD storage for less than £200, short supply.
512GB Crucial MX300 2.5″ SSD: £115, Amazon – Incredible value for 512GB of solid state storage.
1TB Crucial MX300 2.5″ SSD: £205, Amazon – Ditto to the above, but 1TB equivalent.