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Will my custom pc be good or does it need changes?

890 views 13 replies 4 participants last post by  matthewdownloads 
If you can, I'd be looking at putting in a 2nd hard disk, a 128GB or even 256GB SSD. You can get a good 120GB one for about £70 (or even £40 if you can live with 64GB) and it will make a very big difference in terms of the overall speed of the computer. Since you're spending all that money on a new machine, for a (relatively) small amount more the performance difference is huge - it doesn't make much sense not to get one.

Edit: Also, I had a look on that website. It doesn't say the brand of 1TB hard disk which may mean you end up with anything. Remember that all your data is going to be on that drive. Is it worth a little more for a branded drive that you know is less likely to fail? Even if you are under warranty, your data won't be recoverable if the disk fails. Also, who knows what the speed of the drive is?

EDIT 2: Also, you might want to consider building the machine yourself. Whilst PCSpecialist will save you a lot of hassle, it's going to be significantly cheaper to buy the individual parts and put it together yourself. Since you already have a list of the exact parts that will work together, if you are confident enough it might be worth considering that.
 
The speed of the drive is 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
Plus i did originally have a 2nd HDD but because of my budget getting a better motherboard and power supply made me have to give up a second HDD to make it all affordable :(
I have also looked at the prices of individual parts and it comes to almost the exact same price as pcspecialist. And even though i am more than capable of building my own pc. And it would probably be fine. I don't trust myself to not accidentally break something and ruin it all so i'm going with pcspecialist for a little more piece of mind :)
Nope, the speed of the drive is how fast the drive can access/write data. 7200RPM is the disk spin speed (which yes, is related to access times). 6GB/S is the MAXIMUM possible data rate over SATA 3. Mechanical hard drives won't come anywhere near that, more like 1GB/S (Sata II) = about 150MB per second max.

You can upgrade to a SSD in the future when you have more cash. Installing a hard drive is easy, you'll probably want it as your next upgrade :)
 
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