I suggest you don't even try using melody until your skills are maxed. Instead, play a single song. You'll never fizzle it/missed note once you begin singing/playing. And you'll get skillups as you play. So does saying bard to the NPC in the hidden forest not actually put all the singing/instrument...
Based on that, you could still spec in a smaller SSD; 64 or 128GB to store your OS on and keep the 1TB for storage. This, as long as your OS is on your SSD having EQ etc on it doesn't matter as much. Last I was really into researching this stuff some were claiming running your games off your SSD ac...
At lower levels bards fizzle rate seems bugged. The NPC grants 200 skill in all singing/instruments, yet despite this since the very early levels and up until now(currently level 58) my bard fizzles to the points where melody isn't an option. With 200 in all the singing/instrument skills, I would th...