Question Teamgroup MP34 4TB vs Samsung, WD etc

[TechGuy75]

Hello. I have a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1Tb as my primary boot drive. I am installing a few games but I am running low on space. so I need an additional drive for exclusively storing games and regular data files. I want to do a 4Tb m.2 drive. I saw the MP34 Tb. I am running a Z490 build and believe it can do a max of PCIE 3.0, if I am not wrong.

So my question is should I do the Teamgroup drive or a higher end one from Samsung(like a 4TB evo plus 3.0 drive. I know a 4.0 or higher drive would not do anything faster than 3.0 for me)), WD. Or one of the more popular brand, even if they are PCIE 3.0? Would these other drives, that are faster, help in gaming performance, like game load times or other aspects?

Would spending more for a faster drive lead to noticeably better gaming performance? If so, I will look into spending more for them.

Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

I am running a Z490 build
This is where you pass on the make and model of the motherboard and the processor you've paired with said motherboard.

 

[CountMike]

Hello. I have a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1Tb as my primary boot drive. I am installing a few games but I am running low on space. so I need an additional drive for exclusively storing games and regular data files. I want to do a 4Tb m.2 drive. I saw the MP34 Tb. I am running a Z490 build and believe it can do a max of PCIE 3.0, if I am not wrong.

So my question is should I do the Teamgroup drive or a higher end one from Samsung(like a 4TB evo plus 3.0 drive. I know a 4.0 or higher drive would not do anything faster than 3.0 for me)), WD. Or one of the more popular brand, even if they are PCIE 3.0? Would these other drives, that are faster, help in gaming performance, like game load times or other aspects?

Would spending more for a faster drive lead to noticeably better gaming performance? If so, I will look into spending more for them.

Thanks.

No you are not wrong, that CPU has only PCIe v3.0 so v4.0 would keep same speeds. There's one thing about fast drives. there's no much difference between faster and one bellow in normal use. As a secondary or storage difference is even less noticeable. Gaming performance may be somewhat more noticeable because of speed of primary/OS drive used for caching with low amount of RAM. Loading a program or game is within a second or two between slowest and fastest drive and so pretty negligible.

 

[USAFRet]

Would these other drives, that are faster, help in gaming performance, like game load times or other aspects?

Not nearly as much as people think.

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