SEAGATE BARRACUDA 1TB $49

SSDS ARE GREAT for speedy access, but they lag behind spinning drives when it comes to capacity. And when you’re talking about building a games machine, having somewhere to save your games is important. Especially when your main boot drive is quite small, like we have in this machine.

This 1TB BarraCuda boasts 64MB of cache, to help keep your data moving, and while the maximum sustained transfer rate of 210MB/s isn’t going to trouble an SSD, you’ve got enough room on the OS drive for your most-used apps and games. As a bonus, this single-platter, twinhead drive is slightly thinner than standard hard drives, which could potentially help with airflow in a super-tight system.