M.2 SSD Upgrade

Antony101

Antony101

Antony101

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So my trusty old Sabrent Rocket 512GB is coming up for retirement as I currently have a clean OS with three Steam games installed and it's full.

What is the go to drive these days and the sweet spot for pound per GB?

I've currently got an MSI Z390 MEG Ace motherboard so not 100% sure what would be compatible with this.
 
Thanks Tetras!

I'm not a big fan of having more than one drive on my PC as it gets messy and irks me a little.

I'll look at getting the 2TB as a single drive and I'll keep the Sabrent as a spare for when I do a full upgrade and it can go in my partners machine. I look forward to you replying first in that thread too when I make it :cry:

I can't believe it's under £100 for 2TB, my old 128GB Crucial SSD cost way more and that only feels like a few years back!
 
It's not even the cables or the drive itself, it's windows and how badly it manages multiple drives sometimes. I'd rather just have the one large drive and not have to worry about it.
 
Okay, stupid question coming up.

Can my motherboard run a PCIE4 drive, will it just run at PCIE3 speeds?

As I'm thinking of a socket change at some point I'll likely end up with a motherboard that supports PCIE4 sometime this year.
 
Armageus said:
But if you're using it for games, it's largely invisible thanks to Steam's library feature. Just create a new steam library on the new SSD, and games automatically install there (and you can move games from your existing NVMe easily - leaving it for just your OS install and anything else that won't easily move)
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I didn't realise Steam had fleshed out support for multiple drives. If that's the case it may actually be worth keeping my current drive as an OS / Software drive.

I would assume I'll need a new drive with a heatsink in that case? I believe my motherboard only has the one slot with a heatsink.
 
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