Recommendations for SSD PCIe 4.0

Smithy18 · 12 Oct 2020 at 18:19

Evening,

I currently have a 250GB kingston SSD installed which i have windows 10 installed on. I have another storage device which is a 2TB Seagate Barracuda Sata Drive, i use this for all of my files and games. I have a MSI B550 Mag mortar MB which can accept 2 M.2 SSD drives.

I'm thinking about purchasing another SSD drive, this time with PCIe4 as my board supports it. Am i really much better off by installing my games on an SSD drive rather than using my Sata Drive? What's the best way of going about it ?

If i purchase another SSD should i install windows on one SSD and then games on the other SSD, then use the Sata drive for downloads and files etc?

Smithy18 · 13 Oct 2020 at 23:51

Would i be wasting my money if i bought a Samsung 980 Pro 512GB for gaming and a 256gb version to install my operating system on ? My MB supports PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs

Smithy18 · 20 Oct 2020 at 11:55

I bought a 256GB Samsung 980 pro for windows and a Seagate firecuda 512GB for a couple of games. I've installed them with a fresh copy of windows and can confirm that coming from my kingston SSD they are a lot faster. Boot times are very quick, under 10 seconds. My games now open and load quite a bit faster than i've been used to. All in all i am very happy, the update was done for around £200.

Smithy18 · 20 Oct 2020 at 18:56

Yeah it wasn’t the cheapest option. The m.2 980 pro was about £80 and the m.2 firecuda was about £120. I’m happy tho as it’s made quite a difference.

Smithy18 · 24 Oct 2020 at 09:20

So after a week of use the firecuda 520 has failed and no longer works. The drive isn’t recognised by the bios or windows, seagate software also doesn’t pick up this drive. Based on this I’ve boxed it up and sent it back and replaced with a 1TB Samsung 980 as the other 980 I bought for windows is very fast and faultless.