Say you are setting up a new system and you have a Gen4 NVMe and a Gen3 NVMe. I will assume, as it is quite bloody obvious, that for a direct storage game to work as intended it at least needs to be installed on on the Gen4 drive. So my natural instinct would be to set the Gen3 drive as the Windows boot drive and general non direct storage stuff. But can someone tell me if the Direct Storage thing is influenced in any way by having Windows itself on a less than Gen4 device? I am thinking no, but know naff all about Direct Storage as you might suspect.
Gen 3&4 NVMe's in one system Versus Direct Storage games?
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Cheers, sounds like it is defo not something to get hung up on at this stage. The Gen3 drive is a 1TB which I have earmarked to be the OS drive. The Gen4 drive is still technically owned by OcUK, since I haven't yet bought it, hence this pre-question, but that will likely be a 2TB. Or, as has been said here, I may even do without another NVMe for a DS game drive if the GPU not having the correct hardware as yet, may as well wait until all that is sorted out and just use my existing 2TB 2.5" SATA drive for games. Ta all.
Yeah the main thing I wanted an answer to was whether the OS drive had to be Gen4 as well as the game drive for DS, and the clear message is it isn't and DS is not going to be relevant for years to come. So I will be sticking with my 2tb sata ssd for the game drive, actually I have two of these. These will probably always form the bulk of my game storage for years, and a gen4 or 5 will likely only be added for those few must have games was off in the future and will prob just be a 1TB or something. Anyway, clearly not something to be bothered about now.