How much storage space for a gaming PC?

That depends on how many games you want to play at the same time.

If you want to uninstall the games you have “through” or do not want to play again for a long time, then you don’t need much space.

The most violent games are just coming to a little over 100GB, so you can also have several of them on a 1TB hard drive at the same time.

1⁄2TB are more than enough to have several games on stock, so can play immediately without waiting for the download.

Only if you have a really terrible internet connection, you need a great stock of games.

Since 1TB and 2TB are currently quite favorable, you can use both and live with it.

Since reloading leads to backpackers or “Load Screens”, it is better to buy a smaller but faster SSD for the same money.

At HDDs the speed increased with the size of the plate. Just because the data density is higher and the data then gets more data under the head per revolution. Same speed but more capacity meant more speed.

Unfortunately, this is reversed with an SSD. The larger, the more “slower” the addressing of a memory cell and the longer it takes to read this memory cell. So big SSDs are either much more expensive or slower than small SSDs.

There are also enormous differences in writing. An SSD is a multiple slower than reading. Here you have to be careful, because if the game “records”, it can lead to performance breaks during reading, because the slow writing process must be maintained.

So not only pay attention to size, but also to reading and especially writing speed. The latter is usually not on the packaging!