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Please help I'm new to building PCs and I don't know much but it seems really fun but I need to know some more for my gaming PC if I need a SSD,HDD,NVME SSD or all of them.
Alex Glawion
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You really only need a single storage device. The fastest is an nvme ssd, so when in doubt, get that one. The others, ssd and hdd are slower, but also cheaper. It depends on if you need a lot of storage, or need very fast storage. Usually, for gaming, an ssd is just fine, but an nvme ssd can speed up level loading and gaming loading time.
Jerry James
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As Alex said, you won't notice too much of a difference between an NVMe and SATA SSD in today's games. However, due to consoles launching with faster storage solutions, I expect faster storage to be more efficiently used by developers in the coming year. Spring for an NVMe SSD if you're buying an SSD around now. The price bump isn't that significant, but you do get a very significant performance bump.