And even if there’s a secondary hard drive for storage, that’s not the ideal place to install your favorite games. But many game installs these days are ballooning up to and above 100GB. Now, 250GB is definitely better than 120GB. We’ve seen several pre-built rigs in recent months (be they laptops or desktops) priced well above $1,000 with 250GB-class SSD boot drives. Obviously, big companies like Dell buy their drives in bulk and can get much better pricing than I can surfing Newegg. Granted, you get double the RAM and a newer CPU for that added cost as well.īut no PC approaching $1,000 should be shipping with cramped storage these days when you can buy fast 250GB-class drives at retail for as little as $70, or even less than $50 if you’re willing to step down to a PCIe x2 drive rather than an x4 option. The first model that steps you up to 250GB class is priced above $1,200. Dell ships the $899 entry model of its latest XPS 13 (9380) with a 128GB (let’s call it 120GB class for the sake of simplicity) NVMe boot drive.
