With some 1TB HDD in a laptop and it's plenty of space here. You can for a time eject the 1TB or recycle what HDD you have now for mass storage.
More than 16GB RAM? So far, not paying off on gaming. May change in a few years.
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With some 1TB HDD in a laptop and it's plenty of space here. You can for a time eject the 1TB or recycle what HDD you have now for mass storage.
More than 16GB RAM? So far, not paying off on gaming. May change in a few years.
it appears you'll not be taking advantage of the new processor's ability to support Intel's new Optane module which would help your mechanical drive. If you want the icing, I'd go with an SSD rather than the mechanical. You could keep 1TB drive if you need additional real estate for files but get a nice 250 or so SSD for the OS and programs.
Was thinking of having 500gb SSD, with the OS on, and the Multiplayer games i mostly play. Then just save most other stuff on the external hard drivers(4tb total space).
Don't forget to include 2 * 4 Tb = 8 Tb of backup space (either external hard disk or cloud) in the total expense. Just "storing" on an external hard drive means you don't mind to lose them and that might not be what you want.
To store files, etc. isn't as simple as it seems. The forums fill with folk that didn't understand that a single copy on one drive is at risk. Failure rates are pretty low but one wrong move or a natural disaster and it's gone.
OS, games can be replaced. Backups of what you can't replace is what we focus on.
but it's not going to apply to anything. I'm behind on MB chipsets I was not familiar with the B series as mostly I see the H and Z. I may be that you can even boot from an NVMe drive (about which I know almost nothing) so it would be a shame to waste that potential by using a mechanical drive. I'm not sure that technology is for the masses, however.
If you have the bucks go with the I7.
I doubt you'll see much difference over the I5 but it won't hurt.
Ram...start with 2x8 and watch the ram usage.
If your pushing up near the top you can add 2x8.
Disk...I'd go with a big ssd for OS and apps and stuff that's used often.
A one TB internal hdd can store a lot of games plus it will be using the sata bus.
Keep your externals for backups.