[SOLVED] Should I get a NVME SSD or Intel Optane for my new Z390 Motherboard? Or both?

[SeriousGaming101]

I have this Z390 Motherboard:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144214

It supports both NVME and Intel Optane but honestly, I dont know the difference between the two. I play a lot of video games. Should I buy a NVME storage for this motherboard or Intel Optane?

Or, since there are 2 M.2 slots available, should I buy both NVME and Intel Optane and put 1 in each slot?

 

[USAFRet]

Leave Optane out of your vocabulary.
It will serve little or no purpose in this system.

What other drives will be in it?
What is your overall budget for drive space?

 

[Dugimodo]

Or neither. Optane doesn't make much sense for most users, it's a fast cache drive to speed up performance of a standard hard drive so you can have a cheaper large hard drive and still get performance like an SSD - some of the time.

for most people though it makes sense to buy an ordinary SSD and put the OS and software and maybe a few games on it - getting SSD performance all the time for the same sort of price - and adding a normal hdd for bulk storage and games where it matters a lot less.

So between the two - go for the NVME SSD. But if for the same price as say a 256GB NVME SSD you can get a larger capacity SATA based SSD either 2.5" or M.2 then that may be a better option still just because then you get to put more software on it and get the benefits of SSD, and any decent SSD is a lot better than a conventional HDD

 

[J_E_D_70]

If this is for gaming, stick with a larger sata 3 m.2 form factor drive. The ever so slightly shorter load times are not worth the price difference. I learned the hard way.