Optane?

[Djinnux]

So... I am putting a new system together... 

I have an NVME 500 gig SSD as my main drive... 

I have a 500 gig mechanical drive as a storage drive...

I have 2 m.2 slots on my board.... 

IS an Optane module for the 18 bucks I can get it for going to have any tangible benefit that you can think of?

[Mira Yurizaki]

If it's for a cache drive, maybe if in used in conjunction with the hard drive. But overall it's typically not worth it.

[boey]

12 minutes ago, Djinnux said:

So... I am putting a new system together... 

I have an NVME 500 gig SSD as my main drive... 

I have a 500 gig mechanical drive as a storage drive...

I have 2 m.2 slots on my board.... 

IS an Optane module for the 18 bucks I can get it for going to have any tangible benefit that you can think of?

I remember my 16GB Optane drive that came with the Alienware I was using made booting up pretty quick on a HDD, but that was it. 

[porina]

How old is that HD? You might as well either save up for another storage drive, either hard disk or another SSD. I can't see how Optane adds value to this system better than that.

[DeaconFrost]

If your system volume will be on the NVME drive, then Optane isn't intended for your setup and would be a waste of money.  My board has two slots.  I have a 960 Pro 512GB as my system volume, then an 860 EVO 1 TB m.2 drive for my Steam library.

[Djinnux]

4 minutes ago, DeaconFrost said:

If your system volume will be on the NVME drive, then Optane isn't intended for your setup and would be a waste of money.  My board has two slots.  I have a 960 Pro 512GB as my system volume, then an 860 EVO 1 TB m.2 drive for my Steam library.

Yeah I suppose I could always get another m.2 for it...No reason I need a SATA drive in the machine at all really

 

[DeaconFrost]

No need to use it now if you don't absolutely need it.  I just wouldn't waste any money on an Optane drive, given the SSD you already plan to use.

[Jannov]

On 6/26/2019 at 11:38 PM, Djinnux said:

So... I am putting a new system together... 

I have an NVME 500 gig SSD as my main drive... 

I have a 500 gig mechanical drive as a storage drive...

I have 2 m.2 slots on my board.... 

IS an Optane module for the 18 bucks I can get it for going to have any tangible benefit that you can think of?

I am thinking of doing the same thing like you are doing, still learning too.

[G00fySmiley]

from looking at data I ended up getting an optane drive. even with fast SSDs, if being used through a SATA connection, it is supposed to provide some benefit, though extremely reduced compared to the performance gains of using it with a mechanical HDD. Ultimatly I decided to go ahead and run it anyway as for the price worse case it just helps load some of the games from my mechanical drives that are frequently used a little faster and it was very little compared to the cost of my system.

 

Just realize it is a caching drive to use that faster NVME connection. so if that ssd is going to be connected via sata you may see minor improvement (though likely not really very noticeable).

 

note on the other hand if you only have NVME drives for the OS/games i would advise against it.