NVME Storage

ZeusXI · April 12, 2020

I got an Asrock Fatal1ty B350 gaming ITX Motherboard, and ive been using a 128GB m.2 for the longest time and am looking for another speedy storage solution. What would be a good NVME for gaming and just speed. Some productivity will be involved as well. Got a 2TB HDD for my games, but would like some of my more played games on the NVME for them to load quicker.

Was looking at this website https://www.pcgamer.com/best-nvme-ssd/ and was checking out the Adata and the WD Black nvme and was thinking about those. What do you guys think?

Juular · April 12, 2020

3 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

What would be a good NVME for gaming and just speed.

SATA. You don't need NVMe for gaming.

ZeusXI · April 12, 2020

29 minutes ago, Juular said:

SATA. You don't need NVMe for gaming.

So get a Sata sad for gaming then?

MajorMusician · April 12, 2020

Hey, sorry to throw a question in here at random. I am running a MSI Gaming 7 with the Z97 chipset, paired to an i5-4960k. Currently I have a 2.5" 280gb SATA 3 SSD as a boot drive and a 750gb 2.5" mechanical drive for Mass storage. I have been having lots of issues with space as you can probably assume and have been trying to decide on a new drive to upgrade my capabilities. I have been torn between a sata 2.5" SSD or a NVME m.2 drive. I was reading that the board might not be able to use the NVME system for PCIe transfer and would instead just revert the drive back to sata3 speeds. Where as other sources say that the board would use PCIe but the age would cause it to use x2 rather than x4, either way an upgrade over SATA 3. I'm asking the community if they believe the board would use PCIe x2 or x4 and actually be bootable with a NVME drive? I posted on a thread with a similar issue; however, it being an old thread I haven't gotten a reply. Or would the age of the chipset not pair up with a NVME drive and give me no better speeds than SATA 3. I will let you know that I do audio and video production and would definitely benefit from the speed of transferring somewhat large files around the system. Thanks a bunch in advance for any information you can lend. Sorry for the lengthy explanation.