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I want to have a Storage upgrade from a 120GB sata SSD and 2tb hard drive.
Would buying one Samsung 2TB m.2 SSD now, then buying another later if I need more space a good option?
Or would it be better to get a SATA SSD? or maybe getting two cheaper m.2 SSDs?
most people have super fast SSD for their boot drive example m.2 and then a larger SSD SATA for their data/games
I was also thinking about this, but I know that having to disks e.g C and D annoys as I just want to have a simple system.
but it makes it better for restoring/backup. imagine you had everything on C: and your windows install gets messed up.
Easier to format C: and then all your data is still on D: untouched. if all on one drive it would be a headache to move around etc.
SATA used to be cheaper than NVMe, but the price difference has dropped a lot these days. You can find NVMe drives of equivalent capacity for SATA SSD money, so there's no reason not to get one if you need an SSD. I'd recommend keeping it simple with one drive for now - it's not as if you can get two 1 TB drives for less than one 2TB drive
If you reinstall windows over the previous install it'll move all the files found on the boot drive into a windows.old folder in the C: drive. Ronicdog can also use the spare 2TB HDD for backups (either in a spare drive bay or an external caddy), which would be good practice anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by tomcoleman
Basically all my files will be steam games so no real data will be lost. Saying that it would be a pain to reinstall nearly 2TB of games. So like said above I could use my HDD as a backup. I assume there is a way to auto do this?
I really don't think they do. It is common, but far from normal. I find Windows likes to stick things on C: and got up with fighting that. But then I don't have a problem with boot up taking a couple of seconds longer on a SATA ssd than it would with a really fast NVMe drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomcoleman
It has, and it is only a matter of time before it is the norm. But last I looked all the cheap NVMe drives were 4 layer cell to get the cost down and slower than the SATA drives of the same price and capacity which were TLC. Should be faster for game loading and boot though, just not workloads that are write heavy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xlucine
I've got a mix. A fast, smaller NVMe drive for my OS, and then I have a few SATA RAID-0 SSDs. Just in pairs, but it gets you 1GB/Sec throughput which is fanstatic really.
NVMe offers more than raw bandwidth, so they are better. If you can leverage them then do. I'm not sure if it's possible to boot off of a NVMe RAID, you should check that if you have that in mind. Those speeds would be insane.
I didn’t think of that, I will have a look up if I can boot up on NVMe RAID 0. But yes those speed would be crazy.