And your reason for not liking nVidia is because....?
180-250gb SSD for your boot drive and a 1-2TB HDD for storage.
I don't like nVidia because I read that you can't SLI two nVidia cards if you have an AMD processor.
For your boot drive get a SATAIII SSD (Like a 250GB Samsung 850 Evo), and for a data drive 7200 would give you better performance, but 5400 would be fine.
Why don't you like nVidia?
I don't like nVidia because I read that you can't SLI two nVidia cards if you have an AMD processor.
If you're going to have the OS and programs installed on it then yes you want a 7200 RPM disk, but for storage then 5400 RPM is fine.
By the way, WD Black drives are always 7200 RPM because they are performance drives, so CrystalDisk is wrong. Only the Green, Red and Purple drives are 5400 RPM.
As others have said what you want is a 250GB or 500GB SSD for Windows and programs and a large capacity HDD for files. 250GB drives are affordable at the moment but in a year 500GB will be. A year ago a 500GB Samsung 850 Evo cost about £130. Now thy're £120 so in a year they'll be about £110 or maybe even £100. 250GB is well under £100.
Oh, I didn't know that WD Blacks were always 7200rpm. And I'll probably reuse my 120GB OCZ SDD for Windows and programs in my next built and I'll probably buy a 4TB HDD for everything else.
Also, quick question, but if you connected, for example, 4 5TB disks to a RAID card, wouldn't they show up as one 20TB drive in Windows? I'm curious on how RAID works because I've been thinking about trying it on my other PC using my spare disks I got laying around.