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    As Coolhand says, 850 EVO is all you need. I got the 1Tb EVO myself for the new build.

    I'd advise a 512Gb drive, with a 256Gb being an absolute minimum to be honest. With NTTR being forecast at around 25Gb alone, and future theatres likely being in the same range a 128Gb is simply too small, even if you don't have other game installed.

    I spent the extra on the 1Tb for that very reason. And don't forget, you shouldn't fill more than 80% of the space on an SSD, make sure you factor that into your calculations for what size you need.

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    Yep, I've ordered the 500Gb 850 EVO now. Should be plenty of space for Windows 10 and DCS. I use a rusty old 500GB HDD for everything else anyway.

    I'm just going to take take the old 120GB one out entirely and use it as an emergency back up in case disaster strikes.

    Edit: Also upgraded to 16Gb of not-so-fast DRR3 ram.
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    That's a good choice Howie, I personally always run two drives because of Hard drive failures in the past, I like a back up drive for my personal files, however, the quality and reliability of the SSD drives today are far better than the old drives of yesteryear that I'm use to.

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    Yeah, the 120gb 840 only came with a 3 year warranty and I'm 2.5 years into that now. It was the first to use TLC nand and as a result the endurance was especially poor in low capacities. The 840 Evo then had firmware issues but I've not heard anything bad about the 850 Evo series yet.

    They've also upped the warranty to 5 years or 150 TBW for the 500GB version which gives you 80GB of writes per day for 5 years.

    For comparison the 120GB 840's endurance was something like 10GB per day for 3.5 years!

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    I got an 850 too thanks to this thread...did a little DCS 2.0 shopping of my own

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    Comparing my current SSD with the new gen ones in benchmarks it seems to that the performance increases are pretty substantial. Read performance is similar however write performance more than doubles in most cases. Enabling RAPID mode doubles read and quadruples write performance in CrystalDiskMark

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    I ordered a new SSD, a 980TI FTW and 2 8GB Gskills sticks ...2.0 better be amazeballs

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    Next DCS newsletter - 2.0 delayed until 2017

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    JFC.... I thought you were serious....

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    GRRRRR damn you Amazon prime and your supposed next day delivery. 9:20pm and still no sign of my parcel that's been out for delivery since 11am!

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