WD M.2 Good choice for steam libary?

[Am_VonWarMajor]

I was looking at SSD/M.2'S for my first computer build when I saw that WD had a 1 TB M.2 SSD for $276.99 (as of 01-22-17) and was wondering would this be a good choice for a steam library? Its SATA III interface and it is compatible with the motherboard I'm looking at, an Asus rog strix Z270E gaming. My plan was to get a Crucial 275GB SSD as a boot drive with limited games on and a Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDD data drive for all my music, pictures, docs and the rest of my steam library. If this is a better steam set up then I would put all my games on that and get a small 128GB SSD boot drive and call it good! Though I would likely need more space for my music and docs still. I can rob an SSD out of my laptop which is a 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO but I wonder if I would be using too many PCIE lanes. 

Good idea? Bad idea? Thought? Questions? Concerns? HELP!

[W-L]

1 minute ago, MajorOfWar13 said:

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Unless you just want faster load times you get no difference in terms of performance, so just having it on a decently faster HDD usually is more than enough especially if you

have a lot of steam games and data. 

 

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[hconverse02]

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/RKhj4D/crucial-mx300-11tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-ct1050mx300ssd4 here

[Am_VonWarMajor]

3 minutes ago, W-L said:

Unless you just want faster load times you get no difference in terms of performance, so just having it on a decently faster HDD usually is more than enough especially if you

have a lot of steam games and data. 

 

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Understood, I was looking into it and most games I buy are single player and Load times are not that great on my HDD now so when that popped up I was more than excited to jump on the band wagon but still wasn't sure about. I'm slowly getting togeather parts for this build and I'm not fully pulling the trigger till Ryzen comes out sometime this quarter.  Thank you for the quick response. 

[Naeaes]

Isn't WD a bit of a newcomer to the whole SSD game? It's a trustworthy manufacturer in general, yes, but 1st generation is always 1st generation... If for one would never on store 1TB of anything on an SSD without RAID1. For the price you could get way faster drives or multiple drives or like upgrade some other component. 

[ARikozuM]

The only games that benefit from faster storage are open-world games. The biggest benefit is lower pop-in and less jitters when a world portion must be loaded into VRAM or RAM.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Naeaes said:

Isn't WD a bit of a newcomer to the whole SSD game? It's a trustworthy manufacturer in general, yes, but 1st generation is always 1st generation... If for one would never on store 1TB of anything on an SSD without RAID1. For the price you could get way faster drives or multiple drives or like upgrade some other component. 

WD is using SanDisk tech in the SSD.

 

http://www.investors.com/news/technology/western-digital-now-a-storage-powerhouse-with-sandisk-acquisition/

[W-L]

7 minutes ago, MajorOfWar13 said:

Understood, I was looking into it and most games I buy are single player and Load times are not that great on my HDD now so when that popped up I was more than excited to jump on the band wagon but still wasn't sure about. I'm slowly getting togeather parts for this build and I'm not fully pulling the trigger till Ryzen comes out sometime this quarter.  Thank you for the quick response. 

On some games you will faster load times just remember the WD M.2 drives at those pricepoints are sata based M.2 drives, and on the Z270 platform you will not have any issues with running out of PCI-E lanes as the Z270 has further expanded on the board out to 24 PCI-E lanes. 

[Am_VonWarMajor]

I have Fallout 4, the Witcher and so on and so forth. That's mostly why I was looking at this for a possible contender for a steam library, I was dead set on getting a 2TB HDD but this was something that I thought I would ask about before I got into it.