One or two ssd’s?

[u/meddarkknight]

I wanna go with a 2 tb nvme + 1 tb cause it’s actually cheaper and enough for me than going with a 4 tb, what do you recommend going with one drive or two, my idea is to have one for the system and drivers, the other for games and media, is it a great idea or there is something i need to learn before choosing, also for backup if something goes the other way with the windows or something.

[u/darklordjames]

I like a drive for OS and a drive for games/data. That way if I reinstall Windows, I can just leave my Steam folder intact and not have to redownload stuff. That OS drive doesn't even have to be big. My 256GB drive from 2017 is still fine, though I'd get 512GB today.

Then I've got a 1TB drive for OneDrive stuff, and another 2TB drive for temp/downloads/video, but that isn't for everyone. Most people will be fine with just a small OS drive and a big data/games drive.

[u/WizzardBunny]

The more, the merrier. 👍

[u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44]

Storage is just never enough, get a HDD for downloading, write endurance is just not good enough on SSD nowadays.

[u/HardStroke → u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44]

Why does one need almost 5TB for games?
Highly doubt you're playing everything.

[u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44 → u/HardStroke]

No I don't play all of them, modern games are just so big, 150 to nearly 300GB per game.

[u/Nice_Category → u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44]

People say this, but it is unlikely that a casual user will ever exhaust the NAND on an SSD with even a low 600TBW endurance before their computer is obsolete.

[u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44 → u/Nice_Category]

Yes, it's enough for gamers, too small for media consumption or photographers

[u/bobsim1 → u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44]

What downloading? Write endurance on most current ssds is by far enough for most users.

[u/SnooCapers9565]

I have 4 NVMe drives.

I'd go with a big one for C:, because it is so annoying when you start running out of space there, because you will eventually. 2TB is fine for c:, and 1TB for games is probably fine for a while, depending on what type of games you play, and how many you like to have installed at once.

[u/Vr00mf0ndler]

I bought a second hand but brand new one this week. 0 hours used and 0 power ups. It is 3 ears old but still 2 years left of Kingstons warranty. Failure rates for NVME is very low though so shouldn’t be an issue.

Paid more than double what the guy paid back in the day but still 70 eur cheaper than new today.

[u/saxovtsmike]

i run the same 250gb nvme gen3 for system since my 8700k on z390 back then with win 10 and now its win 11 with a b650E board and a 7700x. Back then I had a 500gb sata Games drive that was replaced with a 500gb gen3 nvme. Since then I swapped and cloned it to a 1tb, then 2 tb and now 4tb games drive, and only the latest one is a gen4.

i would not overpay a cent for a gen5 drive. If you are on a budget start with a 1tb os+games drive and later move your steam lib to a second drive.

With a dedicated os drive that only holds os you can wipe that clean and loos nothing, just resinstall os and loosing no time re-downloading your games again

Drivers should be on the games drive, because then you still have them after the os drive went sour, and beofre a mainboard swap, pre load the drivers of the new board ot the games drive. makes life so much easier

Most peaople should be done with 4-6 tb of local nvme storage space, the rest should be at least duplicated to a nas or sitting on a nas with external backups to off site cloud or off site fire & water proof storage

[u/Unwashed_villager]

I have 3 SSDs in my main PC:

• 4.0 1TB for system and programs
• 3.0 2TB for games
• SATA 4TB for anything else (it is an enterprise drive with 5 PB TBW)

All the valuable data goes to my NAS.

[u/bobsim1]

System doesnt need 1TB by far.

[u/Sentmoraap]

- One for work Windows

• One for personal Windows, so work stuff doesn’t mess with my personal stuff and vice-versa
  
• One for personal GNU/Linux, so Windows doesn’t mess it it for example overwrite the bootloader without asking

[u/DimaZveroboy]

It's fine, I have 256gb sata for windows and some software only; 1tb nvme for games, pictures, music, diwnloads, pagefile and blah-blah-blah. Everything works fine, no issues

[u/Zealousideal_Gap1194]

Get the biggest drive you can afford now first then get something smaller for the OS later. Learning that lesson right now lol

[u/meddarkknight → u/Zealousideal_Gap1194]

I can afford the 2tb m.2 and a 1tb, i can’t go with a 4tb right now prices are crazy.

[u/MordorsElite]

Tbh, I'd either just go with a 4TB SSD or a 2TB SSD + 4TB HDD.

2TB is gonna be enough for a while for both programs and games. And it might be enough to tie you over until storage pricing gets better again.

And for media, I'd recommend an HDD anyway. No need to use fast storage for something you'll typically write once and then only read from occasionally.

Frankly I wouldn't really bother with a 1TB SSD, cause I wouldn't really want it to take up one of the slots in my motherboard. (I currently do have a 1TB SSD and it is just a little too limiting)