Question Specifically for a gaming PC OS on NVMe PCIE 5 or 4

[dlokx]

Hi,

I'm building a new PC and I hesitate between:

Installing the OS on a 2 To Crucial T705 or a 2 To WD_BLACK SN850X
Using a 4 To Crucial T705 or 4 To WD_BLACK SN850X for games, video editing, renders, storage etc

I can only use one PCIE 5 for an NVMe so I wanted to ask which one would be best for the OS knowing that the main use of the PC would be for gaming?

 

[Bob.B]

Hi,

I'm building a new PC and I hesitate between:

Installing the OS on a 2 To Crucial T705 or a 2 To WD_BLACK SN850X
Using a 4 To Crucial T705 or 4 To WD_BLACK SN850X for games, video editing, renders, storage etc

I can only use one PCIE 5 for an NVMe so I wanted to ask which one would be best for the OS knowing that the main use of the PC would be for gaming?

Put the games on the 4TB T705 and fit it into the pcie5 slot.
2TB OS disk.....flip a coin.

 

[evermorex76]

It's unlikely that real-world performance would be noticeably different between any of those drives, on PCIe4 or 5 slots, even in demanding games. Measurable in benchmarks, yes, or in pure data transfers, but not in actual usage. (And if you only are transferring data from a slower source to the fastest drive, you will be limited to the speed of the slower one.) Meaning, whether you get the Crucial or the WD model won't matter all that much, but you'll be paying double the price for a small gain in performance.

Unless your OS disk is going to have a tremendous amount of data on it and you need all that space for file storage or rendering/editing space, don't even bother with using a separate drive. Again, you're not really going to see any performance difference by trying to segregate your OS and apps from the storage or games. Having them together isn't going to slow down games to where you can see the difference, or make your renders or edits take longer. In fact on the single drive, don't even bother creating multiple partitions.

But if you've just got money to blow, then sure, buy the best and get very little value for it. Buy a Ferrari and drive the speed limit except for one short straightaway that you pass once in a while where you can really open it up.

 

[dlokx]

I do need the space though, I'm somewhat of a hoarder with terrible storage management, my current 4 To drive is in the red and I've got around 2 To of game related files alone, the rest being videos and other stuff so I think having two drives is a better idea in my case in order to not bloat the drive where the OS is.
And regarding price, while not being insignificant the difference between the drives is not that huge in the store I intend to make the purchase. There's around 40€ difference between the 2 To drives and 70€ between the 4 To.
I was asking the question since, when installing a game parts of the file are installed on the OS drive and the rest on the other drive so I wondered which one would benefit from the increased performance.
Thank you both for your answers