M.2 NVME PCI-E - One or Two

C3PO

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Hi - my next system will be an M.2 drive using the Ryzen CPU and controller for Gen 4 speeds ... do I still need two drives (one dedicated to the OS, the other for Games) for top performance, or will one 2TB drive for both OS and games be fine performance-wise?
 
C3PO said:
Hi - my next system will be an M.2 drive using the Ryzen CPU and controller for Gen 4 speeds ... do I still need two drives (one dedicated to the OS, the other for Games) for top performance, or will one 2TB drive for both OS and games be fine performance-wise?
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I think the logic for having two drives - one for the OS and one for games ties into the fact that older mechanical HDDs have slow access times so its more efficient to keep them separate (so the OS runs that much snappier) if you so wished to do that but with SSDs having 0 access time and that doesn't vary wherever the files are it's now not needed to do it.
 
Go for 1x2TB now... and upgrade again later, on these things nothing will run slower at all by putting OS and games on the same drives... TBH, that's not really been a problem since fast SSD's imho. That lot came like said above from old HDD's, also page files and low memory so it was always a good idea to split them.

I do continue to split but that's my OCD and nothing performance related.
 
Unless you're raising cattle by feeding them banknotes PCIe v3 NVMe is enough.
There's very little loading time difference between NVMe and SATA SSD, so PCIe v3 drive has plenty of unutilized bandwidth.

Especially if you were thinking about only 16GB memory, scratch that PCIe v4 extra and use that for guaranteedly future proof amount of memory.


bremen1874 said:
You never 'needed' two drives.
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Not really even in HDD time when there was enough RAM to avoid page file use.
 
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