Best setup for gaming SSD or HDD or both?

katie279 · 1 Feb 2022 at 08:33

Hi all,

Just looking for a bit of advice - have a couple of gaming PCs and tend to download loads of steam games so they're ready to use when I want them. Especially girly games like the sims that have masses of addons or SkyRim VR which is enormous and complicated to set up with all its addons - so this eats disk space.

I've got a 1TB NVMe drive for OS, a 1TB SSD for games and a 1.5GB HDD also for games - and keep running out of space.

Am leaning towards just getting a huge 8TB drive and be done with it for good, but is there any major downsides to this? I get loading will be slower, but I guess I could choose the SSD for any games that really would demand it. I don't know but would a 8TB be significantly slower than a 2TB one for example?

Any thoughts welcome!

katie279 · 1 Feb 2022 at 21:50

Wooah, I love you guys! You're all awesome, really useful information - ok so I think my plan is to get a PCIe adapter with as many NVMe slits as poss and then I can load it up with drives. Think I've seen ones with four slots, so that should cover me and future proof a bit!

Shout if I'm being stupid/dim!!!

katie279 · 4 Feb 2022 at 21:21

Oh ok, so I have an AB350 as motherboard in this PC and have slapped in a single PCIe adapter with NVMe drive in this already.

Are we saying I wouldn't be able to use one of the four way adapters on this?

katie279 · 5 Feb 2022 at 13:46

Heheh, more like the Borg 'we' that is the collective intelligence of overclockers forums!

Ah ok, darn it - I've fitted a single drive and adapter so I've now got one using the motherboard slot and one using the pcie adapter, so think that might be my cap on this PC then.... Grrrrrr I can see a new motherboard being attractive in a year or two....

katie279 · 5 Feb 2022 at 15:05

Yeah, think you're right - might be a new build next year (which I was just talking about a PC for my sewing room this morning........ :cool:

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katie279 · 17 Feb 2022 at 19:00

Errrrr....nervous shuffling....... Yes I have.... :confused:

Actually had a 500gb one before, but found it was starting to get near limit with general bloat that builds up and caching (eg Photoshop, Cinema etc etc). So effectively use as OS and temp memory disk.

Am I a dimwit?

PS thanks to the advice above, I've now got a second 1 TB NVMe drive for games...! Thing is it gets eaten so quickly - eg just installing Skyrim VR with the Ultimate VR modlist (800+ mods) - boosh! 250gb gone!

katie279 · 17 Feb 2022 at 19:07

Ah, I see - yeah, use it for work and games - isn't that what alt-tab was invented for..... :cry: