2TB drive for games XPG SX8200 Pro or something else + some other noob nvme questions.

[Armadillo]

I want a 2tb drive for games, I was looking at this or the rocket Q, but this seems the better drive overall as it's cheaper (can be had for £210), is tlc and the 5 year warranty of the sabrent is in the US (or at least I couldn't find any info for Europe). Reviews seem good, but don't want to just buy the first thing that catches my eye, so are there any other drives to consider around that price and size? or just get the sx8200.

My board only has a 10Gb m2 slot (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-X99-SLI-rev-10), so to get the full speed I need an adapter card to stick it in the pcie slot. So couple of questions of them

Are the adapters all much the same and something basic like this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-m.2-ssd-to-pcie-adapter-card-cc-008-ak.html will be fine?
Can I boot from it if I want while it's in an adapter, board has a native m2 slot, it's just slow, so I would assume I could, but not sure.
Is it worth it to boot from it? I currently have a 500GB 850evo sata for windows + some games (most are on a mech drive). I'd like to keep windows seperate from the majority of games, so if I need to format/reinstall for whatever reason the games are untouched and I can just point steam back at it. Is there much difference in boot time? As if there's not I might just leave the sata for windows and just add the 2tb for games, rather than partition a piece off and move windows.

Thanks.

 

[EsaT]

Adata is definitely lot better buy, unless Rocket Q is clearly cheaper.

M.2 is just physical connector/form factor for many different buses/protocols and for OS there's zero difference if NVMe drive is in M.2 slot or in PCIe slot using adapter.
In either case it's up to BIOS to support booting from NVMe drive.


Partitioning is for keeping data separate from OS etc.
https://www.howtogeek.com/184659/beginner-geek-hard-disk-partitions-explained/
Though Windows loading doesn't really benefit from NVMe.

 

[Sparx]

Adata easily better, I’ve got one as a gaming drive and it’s great.

The Rocket Q uses QLC as well, which has less endurance than TLC in the XPG SX8200 Pro.

 

[Armadillo]

Thanks. Went for the SX8200pro in the end + an adapter card.

Should be able to boot from it on x99, but there seems to be little difference in booting windows, so will probably just keep my setup as is, and just add the nvme for games for now as it's easier and I'm lazy.