Help with storage

Superflyguyuk

Superflyguyuk

Superflyguyuk

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Hi

I have a MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI Motherboard, with 2 x2tb m.2 SSD cards installed and a 3rd 2tb SSD installed using internal data port.

I have the 2 m.2 drives purely for games storage, and the other as my movie library.
I build this pc 2 years ago and all the drives are pretty much full, so much so that I've deleted some games and movies to give me a couple of gigs on each drive to play with
I am looking for storage options, I will still collect movies but not at the same rate as I have most of my classics, and games, I usually play AAA titles so they take up a lot of space.

I don't mind dumping all my old movies and games onto a 4th (maybe 4TB SSD) drive with slower transfer speeds just as a long term storage device and the rest to use as my current favourite games movie drives.
Thanks
 
If storing movies there really is no point doing it on an SSD just get a large capacity normal drive for half the price and store them on that.
 
yeah stupid have SSD for movies/music you can get a 16TB 3.5" for a decent price...use that for those - and old games, or perhaps games that are 20GB (so loading times aren't that bad) leaving SSD for 100GB+ games
 
Nothing wrong with an NVMe or SSD for music or film storage if you want fast access and do any sort of editing or production work on them.

That said, if you are ripping over 4tb of films to simply watch on a PC or NAS, I can't think of anyone who would recommend an NVMe/SSD for such.

You should not see any difference watching movies on an HDD vs SSD or NVMe.

That all said, it's meaningless if your case cannot support a hard drive, looking at my NZXT H3 Flow as an example.

My old PC ran HGST 4tb HDD for movies, these days I would be replacing those most likely with Ironwolf Pro NAS drives despite the desktop use, though the standard 16tb Barracuda desktop drive looks reasonable. 8tb to 16tb seems to be the best price points. But it depends on how many movies and what formats you store, and though I like the idea of a desktop drive, a NAS specific drive may well be better in a seperate NAS enclosure for a movie collection.
 
As others have said - I'd be tempted by a mechanical drive for the less speed intensive stuff. Assuming your movies are just for watching (rather than media creation etc), then a mechanical drive is plenty. I'd also be tempted to move any less-played games to a mechanical instead & free up some space on the fast storage to stuff that really needs it.

If your case can't hold any 3.5" drives, you've still got the option of an external drive, or a 2.5" mechanical.
 
Thank you for all your brilliant replies.
I am using a CoolerMaster MasterBox TD500 Mesh, I know it sounds stupid but this was my first PC build and as it was when everyone was installing m.2 storage and SSD's I never read up on HDD's as I thought it was dead technology.
I will be using the drive just as a library, I only watch movies on my tablet, as I'm a fan of old gangster, and WW2 movies, with the occasional blockbuster for my Mrs to watch on our 4k 60" TV.
So I should go for as big TB drive I can afford, what connector is best for speed as I don't want to wait for ages transferring data onto or of it?
On my last PC it was a ready built one with 2 internal HDD and an extra external HDD, connected via usb a and it was snail like!
 
A modern USB 3 external drive shouldn't lose anything to an internal SATA drive but internal is much neater.
Work out how much space your current film collection needs then buy a drive twice that size.
 
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