[SOLVED] Gaming PC - 1 or 2 NVME?

[warewulf]

How important is it to run two NVME's in a gaming rig?

My situation:

New PC on the way... I have one Samsung 970 Evo and the new PC comes with a WD SN550. So I assume I should make the 970 the OS drive and use the WD SN550 as a storage drive.

For my favorite games, should I put them on the WD SN550, or will they run faster on the 970 as long as it's not too full?

I was also thinking of pulling the WD drive to use in another PC, but don't want to hurt my performance too much.

 

[Koekieezz]

How important is it to run two NVME's in a gaming rig?

My situation:

New PC on the way... I have one Samsung 970 Evo and the new PC comes with a WD SN550. So I assume I should make the 970 the OS drive and use the WD SN550 as a storage drive.

For my favorite games, should I put them on the WD SN550, or will they run faster on the 970 as long as it's not too full?

I was also thinking of pulling the WD drive to use in another PC, but don't want to hurt my performance too much.

There should be less difference between those 2 drives if used for gaming purposes, both ssd wont hurt the performance, just the loading times, and if you play a big games that have alot of zone loading stuffs, it could help you to not stutter, even my Forza Horizon 5 on my hdd works very fine with no stutters, minus the loading time.

 

[Bob.B]

How important is it to run two NVME's in a gaming rig?

My situation:

New PC on the way... I have one Samsung 970 Evo and the new PC comes with a WD SN550. So I assume I should make the 970 the OS drive and use the WD SN550 as a storage drive.

For my favorite games, should I put them on the WD SN550, or will they run faster on the 970 as long as it's not too full?

I was also thinking of pulling the WD drive to use in another PC, but don't want to hurt my performance too much.

What capacity are these 2 ssd's?

 

[sizzling]

For a gaming pc there is negligible difference between a good SATA drive and the fastest NVMe 4.0.

View: https://youtu.be/4YoRKQy-UO4

 

[USAFRet]

How important is it to run two NVME's in a gaming rig?

My situation:

New PC on the way... I have one Samsung 970 Evo and the new PC comes with a WD SN550. So I assume I should make the 970 the OS drive and use the WD SN550 as a storage drive.

For my favorite games, should I put them on the WD SN550, or will they run faster on the 970 as long as it's not too full?

I was also thinking of pulling the WD drive to use in another PC, but don't want to hurt my performance too much.

It will make exactly zero differenece.

One drive for OS and applications, the other drive for games and other stuff.
Makes NO difference which is which.

Whatever drive the OS is on when it arrives...leave it there.

 

[warewulf]

What capacity are these 2 ssd's?

Both are 512GB

 

[warewulf]

It will make exactly zero differenece.

One drive for OS and applications, the other drive for games and other stuff.
Makes NO difference which is which.

Whatever drive the OS is on when it arrives...leave it there.

Ok, good to know. I was going to clone the slower drive to the faster one, but looks like that won't make much difference.

 

[Bob.B]

Both are 512GB

Since they are both the same size it won't matter which way you go.