@ System building gurus. Spec me

Just some thought.

From my personal experience, use one big 2TB Caviar Green for £70. Users will use their desktop or other Windows libraries to store the photos, videos and other documents. In Windows those folders are default on C:\ which could be changed by group policies but I don't think this is the case here.

So he will have a small 120GB C:\ partition with all his documents in and a nearly empty 1TB D:\ in this case.

Maybe ask him about his workflow, he seems to be around?
 
@ Everyone thank you very much for the help anotehr OCUK expert helped me on the board question I have placed the order couple of minutes ago.
Really are grateful for all the help. Will make my life a lot easier when my uncle comes round to build. I would still of loved to see his face when the Dremel and angle grinder came out to make that ATX board fit the m-atx case :D

@disi Ill move his Documents folder to the 1tb drive with a symlink like I do on my work computer. I'm running my OS C: from a 30gig SSD with mechanical drives for everything else. Learnt a few tricks with windows 7. Main issue I find is the hidden appdata folder and the refusal for some programs to store its data else where.

The 120gig drive should cover that issue? more than enough for windows around 20 gig up to date. 8 gig page file 40 gig for the rubbish programs love to store on the C: Leave him around 40gig for his main programs. Should be more than enough ? By time he fills that, SSDs will be even cheaper. he can pick another up.

I'll show him how to install crappy programs to the 1tb drive. Not that I can see him installing many. But just encase.
 
I only have a 120gb drive and belongs he checks whats left on the drive every now and then he should be fine.

Enjoy the he enjoys the system :)
 
I have a 128GB on my laptop and it is very tiny for games.

The modules and maps are sometimes quite large for additional weapons/features. you end up easily with a ~70GB program folder in ARMA2 (using the community written mod manager for ARMA). Want to play a Viernam map, make sure you got additional ~20GB free space.
My Steam folder is ~28GB at the moment with just Oblivion/Skyrim. The ESO beta demands ~60GB of free space.
 
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