Upgrade to 2tb NVMe

tintin82

tintin82

tintin82

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Currently I have a 6700k 4.6ghz, 32gb RAM, 1080ti.

Having a bit of an upgrade itch and just noticed the price of NVMe drives is at £230 for a 2TB drive!

Now I currently have a 512gb vertex 4 boot drive, and a 1tb samsung 850 games drive.

I was considering swapping these out and amalgamating everything to the one NVMe.

Does anyone know if 2 drives is better than one in way of performance? I tried to find benchmarks as I would assume it may be due to separate I/O bus?

I like the idea of doing away with the SSD's / sata / power cables for a tidy setup, but dont know if it is really worth is!

Any ideas?
 
tintin82 said:
Does anyone know if 2 drives is better than one in way of performance?
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two nvme drives in raid 0 is (obviously) faster than one drive
but you have double the risk of losing all your data as there is no redundancy

two smaller separate nvme ssds are, (usually, depending on which make/model) slower in benchmarks than one larger nvme ssds due to the amount of nand channels used within the ssd itself, rather than the i/o bus that you're alluding to
real-world performance...unlikely to be relevant
 
easyrider said:
well for one....If you need to re-install your OS you can just point your OS to the other directory not on C:

This is reason enough....
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I no longer think this is really the case. Windows 10 doesn't self corrupt like older versions of windows meaning I find myself making a clean install way less often (normally only on hardware change). As I will presume you keep all your precious files (read photos music etc) on a NAS / seperate drive, I find the need for seperate OS and installed app drive days have passed. Fast internet these days on redownload as well mean in my view it works.
 
You can repartition the drive to have C: for Windows and D: for games, but yeah, in practice I've never needed to restore from a disk image. In most cases a Windows refresh installation or Restore does the trick.
 
I would either;
  • Grab a 2tb to replace both
  • Grab another 1tb for RAID
I wouldn't worry too much about installing the OS if it goes wrong, it hardly takes an hour like it did with Windows XP. Assuming you have cloud/nas/external storage for anything important, the only real issue will be installing OS and games again.
 
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