Is it a good idea to build a computer with only one SSD, as i will only use it of very casual gaming, and not work, music or movies.
Also, if it does 'evolve' into my main pc and i need more storage, is it a good idea to have only SSD's?
Basically, yes. SSDs are a lot faster than HDDs in everyway. Their storage capacities for SATA, though, cap out at 512GB for really fast ones, but I think that there is a 960GB SSD somewhere... It is a great option to switch to only SSDs, if you can, and just put them in RAID 0 as you get more.
I'm a bit of a noob, what is raid 0?
(ps thanks for the help)
RAID is a 'Redunant Array of IndependantDisks.' It likes together 2 or more of the same HDD/SSD into an individual system. Some of the forms of RAID copy data to both hard drives for security, while others, like RAID 0, use both speeds partially to increase speed.
No, Just have one SSD, almost no one has more than one. Mechanical harddrive is still a cool guy and he will be till SSD prices drop down in like 5 years. I also doubt he'll use a RAID array any time soon.
I was right where you were at. It sucks we want an SSD thats huge and stable and not +1000 dollars. One thing you can do though is wait for some sales and buy say some 240 or 256ish ssds. Or do what I did and get a HDD enclosure or network attached storage for your machine with gigabyte network speeds and USB 3.0 sharing your data across your network is not a bad idea.
Then going forward your backed up games(cause you can back up your steam game to a HDD) your music, movies, etc...whatever is in 1 spot and everything from your laptop, workstation, tablet, phone, and whatever else can share off 1 HDD.
Do not raid SSDs. Seriously any SSD on a machine is bottlenecking through your boards bus. Its pointless.
Removing cost from the arguement, is it a good idea?
yes
I wouldnt even bother with a SSD if its just a casual gaming machine. Get a big HDD and if in the future you want it to be your main rig buy a 120/256gig SSD boot drive and slot it in.
It appears you have missed the point.. I wont need a big hard drive because i will only game casually.