Need Additional Storage

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Hi,

My motherboard is the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master PCIe 4.0 (not sure if it's the 1.0 or revised 1.1/1.2 model). Bought it in 2019.

My secondary drive is only 1TB, which is inadequate for the disk space heavy modern games + mods.
I'm totally out of the loop with regards to what to get, but I'm thinking a 4TB might be the best option.

My OS is on an NVME drive, so I'm assuming that it would be best to drop in another NVME drive on one of the spare ports (my OS drive sits in the middle port).
Photo added below (hopefully, I haven't broken any forum rules with this one. Used Flickr and selected BBcode; added spoilers just to be on the safe side. :)

Gigabyte Mobo by A Z, on Flickr

I was thinking of this one, but I'm not sure if it's worth paying top dollar for what I assume is one of the fastest 4TB drives available? https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...lid-state-drive-with-heats-sto-wdc-03544.html

Ta. :)
 
If you're going to add this new drive as a secondary and just install games on it, then you don't need a high-end drive with huge amounts of cache as you will mostly be reading from it rather than writing to it. Cheap and cheerful would be best here.

However, if you plan on changing your primary drive, then yes, I would look at something with a decent lump of cache and good IOPS.
 
Personally, I think it's overkill.

I've been feeling the same way and upgraded to a Crucial P3 Plus 4TB for just under £150 a few weeks back - that's in the second slot to put my games on. I've got my OS on a 1TB P5 Plus, and I figured if I ever got a game where DirectStorage was a thing I'd put that specific game on the P5. But that still hasn't happened.

Someone posted some benchmarks around here, where a reviewer was looking at the difference between SATA3, NVME PCIE4, and NVME PCIE5 I think - and though you could see the improvement over SATA3, the NVME drives were really much of a muchness.

I think 4TB makes sense, because games are getting bigger and bigger, and it's nice just not having to worry about it, but I don't think going for a high-spec drive is going to have any real world impact for what you're talking about.
 
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Thanks for the replies.

@aaronyuri Yes, that makes sense since my intention for this drive is to primarily use it for game files,
so a decent read speed should suffice.

That said, I wouldn't mind bumping up my OS drive to something beefier and faster as well - maybe a 1 - 2TB model.
It's only a 512GB Sabrent Rocket, though I can't recall the exact model off the top of my head.

@Jim99 You're most likely right there; a balance of VFM and speed/capacity would seem the way to go.

@Minstadave Thanks for the suggestion, but for the life of me I don't seem to be able to find it on OcUK.
I can see the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB for £189.95; is that the one you were referring to?
 
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Minstadave said:
OcUK dont stock the Samsung 990 Evo Plus, which is a shame as its a very good choice at 4TB.
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I managed to order it, though for a higher price than hoped.
Everywhere seemed to be either out of stock or 'in stock' that is, until you went to checkout and then found out it wasn't. :/
Anyway, I think it's still decent value compared to some other 4TB drives. Quite happy. Cheers. :)

Might pick up a new OS drive, though I've virtually no experience in copying/cloning one OS drive to another,
so I might have to watch some guides on that.
 
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