PCIE M.2 - OS and games on same drive?

adrichardson81 · 3 Jun 2020 at 13:16

Hi everyone

So the advice ever since I got into pc tinkering in the late 90s has been to keep your OS and games on different drives.

Anyone know if this is still the case with pcie nvme drives? I can certainly see the logic with hdds and with sata SSDs, but does it still apply now the drive has 4 lanes rather than 1 lane?

adrichardson81 · 3 Jun 2020 at 15:27

Cool - that opens up some more options for me in that case. I've got a 512gb os drive now, so I could swap in a 1tb further down the line.

adrichardson81 · 3 Jun 2020 at 21:11

I went with a 970 Evo plus for the OS. It's 512gb as the performance is much better than the 256gb version. I've also got 2x 1tb pcie 3.0 nvme drives for games (I think Silicon Power and Team, but they're just cheap and cheerful Phison drives with a ddr cache).

Docs, photos and music are on a 2tb Crucial mx500 and I've got a 1tb mx500 for older/archived games.

It's a lot of storage, but games are hitting 100gb+, so they really hit storage pretty hard.

adrichardson81 · 3 Jun 2020 at 22:06

I've had it for a while - if I was buying now though, I'd definitely have gone for a 4.0.

I'm debating selling it and buying a 1tb 4.0 though