Question Thinking about storage upgrades on my build

[Rui Neves]

Hi ,
I am thinking about upgrade some of my HDD´s to an Nvme SSD , I am using 3 HDD´s at the momment and honestly 2 of them are rarely used ( the 1tb and 500gb HDD`s ).

I wish to know if in my case the Nvme could have some negative impact on the GPU performance ?

I know the GPU is already kinda limited because is using onnly pcie 3.0 when could use pcie 4.0 if I had another motherboard, I just not want to limit even more the GPU performance , for what I´ve seen on my Motherboard manual I will lose 2 of the 6 sata connectors using the Nvme , but I think it does not mention losing anything more., but anyways I am asking here to be sure .

I am not used to install Nvme´s , when started to study about this world , Nvme´s were not still a thing yet LOL ,the sata ssd´s were starting to appear at the time ...

I am considering this one here : https://www.pcdiga.com/armazenament...p3-2tb-3d-nand-nvme-ct2000p3ssd8-649528918802



Pc specs :
Case NOX Coolbay SX Blue
AOC monitor with 21" and freesync , 75hz
Gigabyte b450 gaming X
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Kingston HyperX FURY DDR4 (with RGB) at 3200mhz with XMP profile 1 enabled
MSI RX 6600XT 8gb
Bitfenix formula gold 550w
3 hdd´s from WD ,(1 wd green (500gb) , 1wd black (2tb) ,1 wd blue (1tb))
1 sata ssd (Kioxia 480gb)

 

[Lutfij]

I'd move your OS or the game library onto a large NVMe(since the board has one M.2 slot), then replace one of the other HHD's with a larger 2.5" SSD. Your SATA ports will be reduced, not bandwidth on the PCIe lanes to the first slot's GPU.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

P3 series NVME's aren't very reliable.

 

[Rui Neves]

I'd move your OS or the game library onto a large NVMe(since the board has one M.2 slot), then replace one of the other HHD's with a larger 2.5" SSD.

My OS is on my SSD at the momment my games are on 2tb HDD and some backups and not so important files on the 1tb hdd , the 500gb HDD is really just not doing so much there xD . My idea is to have one 2tb Nvme drive to have the OS and games and probably use the 500gb SSD for some backups and not important files , this way I remove all HDD´s from the system .

Thank you for your help and suggestions

 

[Rui Neves]

P3 series NVME's aren't very reliable.

what do you recommend at around 100€ ?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB​

 

[Rui Neves]

Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB​

it´s 60€ more +/- but I will think about that .

 

[Pextaxmx]

There are many PCIE 3.0 nvme choices. My favorite is SK Hynix P31.