windows 11 boot drive

[nerdshack888]

my internet speed is not good and not the most reliable so having the games ready to go on a large storage drive is the best option.

 

[Capitano]

quite the contrary on what ive been hearing, I usually hear the best things about it

 

[nerdshack888]

well mine is not great.

 

[nerdshack888]

its better to have the games already downloaded and ready to play so i guess large non-ssd sata is cheap and not quite the past for me.

 

[sastusbulbas]

hi building my first pc at the moment and i originally had decided on the samsung 990 pro 2tb but now heard some bad reviews and this had maybe put me off, my second choice was the wd sn850x but i am open to other options, i will use it as the boot drive and possibly a few games. also thinking of the possibility of having a smaller boot drive and another larger drive for games and storage, this is just incase i have any problems with the boot drive and need to format to fix any problems with windows and i dont want to lose all the other things on the drive so keep them seperate. what i have noticed about the smaller drives are that they tend to be older and more budget options. any thoughts.

1st, ignore the Amazon reviews.

Second, what is your actual budget, if you want the best bang for buck, Kingston Fury Renegade drives available in 1tb, 2tb, 4tb are high endurance drives and often at good prices. If money is tight, get 1TB and add more later, 2tb is the sweetspot for most.

Samsung 990's Pro's are good products, I'm happy to run a 1tb with two 4tb 990 Pro's. Simply because I like the same brand and model and like Samsung Magician software to keep an eye on the drives. But I was tempted to go with two 990 Pro 4tb and two FireCuda 530R 4tb until they were discontinued. But I run seperate drives for different things, there is 4tb of movies, a few TB of music, few TB of general files and documents, WAV files, photo files, all manner of stuff, and a half full 4tb drive for games. I also use HDD for some of that though.

The preference is 3D-TLC/MLC/TLC memory type for endurance/cost, my preferences would be Kingston Fury, Samsung 990 Pro, Seagate FireCuda 530r and Lexar NM790, Gen 4 only.

If starting out, a 2TB is great for everything on one drive, my lads are going for 2tb for OS and games and adding another drive later.

There is no point in Sata drives for a general use PC and certainly not for an OS or ANY games. Rotate games on a 2tb NVMe if money is an issue. Simply download the previous night. And if your internet is that slow, are you playing offline single player games?
A decent desktop use HDD is 7200 RPM with 256 to 512mb of cache. But bear in mind, such a reasonable HDD is around £150 for 4tb! A high performance 2tb Kingston Fury or 990 Pro is £145. A 4tb Lexar NM790 NVMe is only £220, a Kingston Fury 4tb only £250. And the HDD, no matter how much you spend, is litterally going to CRIPPLE your gaming.

HDD's are for archiving documents, PDF's, media.

 

[nerdshack888]

thanks for the reply, my internet is max 1.3 mb/s, the hdd will only be used for storing the games, i will move them to the m.2 drive before playing, i can get a seagate 6tb 5400rpm £140 and a seagate 8tb 5400rpm £150. budget depends on the config really, undecided if i want 1tb+2tb,2tb or 4tb if i can get it really cheap.