How do people generally have their storage drives setup?

pepp77 said:
My current desktop is setup as

1TB M.2 for OS
2TB M.2 for Games
2TB Sata SSD for More Games
500GB Sata SSD for Current Media I am consuming

I dont really notice any real world differences between the two games drives when actually playing.
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500GB Sata ssd just for media? Is that not a little overkill? 0.o
 
IanAG said:
Curious what numbers of failures you have had betwee HDDs and SSDs?

Touch wood I have not had a single SSD failure causing data loss/requiring restore from backup/replace and rebuild parity - probably out of say 30 drives. Versus maybe 5 HDD failures out of say 100.

Very much ballpark figures and obviously not enough data points to really mean much, but no way would I be putting an HDD into anything other than a storage server these days.
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Over the years (30 this year) since I 1st bought a PC, I've had one HDD fail, no SSD's so far. Said failure was a WD 500g under warranty, they replaced it with a 'recertified' model. Guess I've been lucky in that regard.
 
250 GB sata SSD for windows/ apps
120 GB sata SSD that's just got one huge game on it
2TB HDD for Steam Games.

All the Drives scavenged from my old rig, so I could put more cash into buying a better GPU for the new build

Would like to replace the HDD for a ssd just for faster loading times, but prices are a bit steep at the moment.

Only had one HDD fail in 25 years, Seagate brand
 
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500gb SSD for Windows
2TB SSD for large storage
2TB NVME for games
1TB NVME for applications

I've not used NVME for windows at all, rather use that speed for applications and games.
 
My gaming machine is setup

2tb Main OS drive SN850 nvme
1tb Fury Renegade nvme (Game drive)
1tb SN750 nvme

Storage machine
1tb Pm9a1 none drive
5x 18tb and 3x 22tb (WD Gold/Seagate Exos)
2tb Crucial MX500 and 500gb Crucial
 
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I have the following
1x2gb m.2 gen 4 for system and Games
1x1gb m.2 gen 3 backup for files pics etc
1x1gb m.2 gen4 for media/music/movies etc

dont use any mechanical drives now.
My spec in sig.
 
I follow the KISS method with most things in life, storage is no exception.

2TB SSD NVMe - Main drive, games, app, OS etc.

8TB SSD NVMe - Data drive where the Documents libraries are all relocated to and all my working backups are synchronised to monthly/weekly depending on activity.

8TB SSD SATA - External USB-C, backups drive which has the C drive VHD system image clone, and is synchronised backup drive for the 8TB NVMe above. So effectively I have a double backup system in place this way.
 
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C: 2TB NVME SSD (990 Pro) - Windows 11
D: 2TB NVME SSD (990 Pro) - Games and documents (family photos and important docs backed up to 100GB OneDrive)
E: 16TB HDD (WD Red Pro) - Films & TV
F: 4TB SATA SSD (870 Evo) - *Cough* Pron *Cough*
G: 6TB HDD (WD Red) - Hot "backup" of D and F

Assorted offline backup drives which I should replace with a NAS one day.
 
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ScarySquirrel said:

How do people generally have their storage drives setup?​

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I have my drives setup like this

2TB 990 pro nvme = Main windows and installed appz etc c: drive
4TB SN850x nvme = Steam Games Drive
4TB 990 pro nvme = Other Games that are not on steam (Like MS Gamepass)
4TB 870 SSD = For Anything else like for storing all the junk i collected over the years on :cry::cry::cry:
250GB SSD = Small extra backup drive for random stuff like photo's, TXT doc's , Fav links, Online User Manuals for items i own etc etc

Plus i have quiet a few random sizes of HHD's from 128GB to 3TB of old fashion 3.5" hhd's laying around which i just use for keeping backups

But i need to get around to buying a cheap 2TB nvme & 4TB nvme to put in ext cases to replace these old fashion 3.5" hhd backup drives which are a real pain as there ext boxes need a power supply to be able to use.
 
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OS is on a 512Gb M2 drive, games and data on a 2Tb ssd although have been toying with the idea of getting a 2Tb M2 NVME for everything as windows seems to be a lot more stable than it was historically
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Hi all, I've just built my first PC in about 13 years and at the moment I've just got a single WD Black SN770 1TB M2 SSD which I've installed Windows 11 to, and I intend to install most of my apps to this drive.

However, this clearly isn't going to be big enough as I start installing games. I was thinking I could get another 1 or 2TB M2 SSD just for game installs. Would that be sensible? Or are there cheaper SSDs that would be better? I don't really know the difference between these tiny M2 drives and the bigger SSDs that I remember using ages ago.

I have a few HDDs from my old PCs, they are 3.5" SATA drives which I assume will still be compatible with my new ASUS B650 TUF motherboard. I was going to put these in and use for general storage of documents and files.

Does that seem like a sensible setup? Or would you recommend something else?

Thanks
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What I have is one SSD for Windows and apps. Not that I have many apps. My C: drive has only 140GB on it. Then I have a 2TB SSD for games. This could be a little slower than C:, just at the moment it happens not to be. And I have another 1TB which I use for general data that could be an HDD (It's actually an old SSD).

I like to keep it divided like that in the event of a disc failure, or for if an when I reinstall Windows. It makes it easy to remove critical data from the PC and keep it safe or transfer it to another PC. I don't like keeping anything critical on C:, because in that past that has been the most likely drive to lose information (whether that be my fault or windows!).
 
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my setup is
1tb m.2 for os
2 tb m.2 for games
2 tb m.2 for more games
1 750gb sata ssd for dj tracks
1 x 5tb for downloads and crap
 
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