I need help with HDD and SSD, please.

Hello everyone! once again I need your help.

I always come here when I have questions about my computer because of the great community that gamespot has in the PC section, so thank you!

Here is what my specs are:

Asus Rampage IV Extreme

I7 3930K

AMD 7970 XFX 3GB Core Edition

16GB Corsair vengance 1600

1xSSD 120GB OCZ SSD

1x2TB Seagate HDD

here is my problem: I am a youtuber, and sometimes when I record my FPS goes down rapidly. I heard that I could fix that by playing games on hard drive and recording it on another, so here I am:

I want to buy an SSD for my games for a faster loading time, I thought of this:http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-EVO-Series-2-5-Inch-MZ-7TE250BW/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408737318&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+256gb+ssd

(Please let me know if there is a better SSD for that price, or a faster one slightly more expensive, or better brand)

I also want to buy this so I could record my gameplay on it:

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Cache-Desktop-WD2003FZEX/dp/B00FJRS628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=western+digital+black+2tb

(Please let me know if there is a better HDD for that price, or a faster one slightly more expensive, or better brand)

I'm trying to boost frames while recording, also if possible, being able to record with DxTory at 1080P/60FPS recording capability (the video file being captured in 1080P/60FPS, not the game)

Also, is't better to go with a RAID system with two 1TB harddrives for 1080P/60FPS?

Also, is't bad to use an SSD for recording games?

Please do help me as I really need your help in making my decision.

many thanks!

PS: My seagate harddrive started acting funny lately, is there a test that I could do to know whether my harddrive is dying or not?

It's bad to overuse SSD with constant files changes withing the storage.

SSD will make you load levels faster but that won't change the drop in fps while recording, I can recommend you getting a stronger GPU or another for Crossfire.

I can recommend on R9 290 for 350$ by Gigabyte, also you may pair your GPU with brand new R9 280 but you'll want to have brand new PSU with 750Watts.

The EVO is good SSD, you may go with Crucial and Corsair as well if you can get them cheaper.

You game on SSD and record on HDD, not the opposite way.

To test your HDD use http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

SSD write endurance is a lot longer than you think. You can record games to them without any issues.

For the mlc 830 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand

There is a great example at XtremeSystems where a 256GB Samsung SSD 830 is currently at nearly 6,000TiB of writes. Its WLC hit zero at 828TiB of writes, which means its endurance is over seven times higher than what the SMART values predicted. That doesn't mean all drives are as durable but especially SSDs from NAND manufacturers (e.g. Intel, Crucial/Micron, Samsung etc.) seem to be more durable than what the SMART values and datasheets indicate, which isn't a surprise given that they can cherry-pick the highest quality NAND chips.

The ssd you picked is TLC so it won't last quite as long as a MLC drive. It won't be a problem regardless, but I'd probably get this over it. It is slower, but you won't notice.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Height-SDSSDHP-256G-FFP/dp/B00APEG8NO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1408751748&sr=8-3&keywords=ssd+240gb

That hard drive you picked is not good for the price, get one or two of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM001/dp/B005T3GRLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408751612&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+3tb

If you buy two, put them in RAID 1. RAID 1 on Windows does not give you any performance benefit for read speed.

Wouldn't you want a bigger SSD for games? Here's 480GB Crucial M500 for $227.