Replace all 6 SSDs for x1 NVME on gaming rig?

KungFuSpaghetti

KungFuSpaghetti

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As above, is this the good idea I seem to feel it is? I've thought about getting a bigger ssd, but then thought wouldn't it be faster to have everything on just one NVME drive (O/S and all my games)? That way the SSDs shouldn't become a bottleneck... Or is there other factors in not aware of?

If the answer is 'yes', then which drive to go for as ideally it needs to be 1tb.

I've currently got x6 Kingston 240gb SSDs, 3 of which are totally empty and the remaining 3 are all less than half capacity used.
 
In real world applications I honestly don't think you'd notice the performance increase outside specific tasks.

I have the Samsung 500gb 970 Evo as a games drive and again the performance seems negligible to me. You may feel differently though, There are plenty of devices to choose from, personally I stick with Samsung as much as possible for SSD's.
 
Oh really? That's disappointing, I just assumed that the read/write speeds I'd be able to take advantage of having everything all on one m.2 drive... Don't think I'll bother in that case and maybe just get a regular SSD.
 
I'm not saying they're not faster, on paper its clear cut just that load time for games maybe seconds faster. Where if you're moving massive files around you'd definitely see a difference.

Someone more knowledgeable than I may think differently though.
 
No mate that's fine, I wanted it to be a significant uplift for game load times, especially for things like GTA5, pube g and Civ 6... having done a quick google it seems to be a case of yeah, they are faster, but not by much for general use, other than as you've said copying files... If my current drives read at 500mb/s, but a Samsung NVME is 3500mb/s, then I was kind of expecting it to be in the region of 7 times faster in pretty much everything it does (from my simplistic view of storage... something I've never really been massively interested in).
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
Oh really? That's disappointing, I just assumed that the read/write speeds I'd be able to take advantage of having everything all on one m.2 drive... Don't think I'll bother in that case and maybe just get a regular SSD.
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Games simply don't benefit from highest benchmarketing speeds.
Mostly speed difference between NVMe and SATA SSD would be second or two at best in game loading times.
Besides reading asset files from drive games likely need to decompress data and initialize various things making read speed only one part of equation.


Continuous copying of big amounts of data back and forth is where higher transfer rate of NVMes would actually show.
Higher IOPS performance again is likely about 100% meaningless in home use.
 
EsaT said:
Games simply don't benefit from highest benchmarketing speeds.
Mostly speed difference between NVMe and SATA SSD would be second or two at best in game loading times.
Besides reading asset files from drive games likely need to decompress data and initialize various things making read speed only one part of equation.


Continuous copying of big amounts of data back and forth is where higher transfer rate of NVMes would actually show.
Higher IOPS performance again is likely about 100% meaningless in home use.
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Thanks @EsaT, I think I'll deffo stick with my current drives in that case and put the money towards a (hopefully) 16 core 3850x or whatever ends up being the top ryzen sku.
 
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