Storage Setup Help for 1st Build

[BriscoBones]

Budget (including currency):  Parts already Purchased

Country:  USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk, AC Valhalla, Doom, Minecraft ; Mastercam, solidworks, word/excel

Other details : current parts: B550 Pro motherboard, Ryzen 7, 64gb ram, RTX 2070 super, dual 1440 monitors, windows 10 pro

 

So for this build I bought a 2.5" 500gb ssd, originally for the os and documents etc, and a M.2 NVMe 1TB for game library.

Then I realized I can also scavenge a 256gb and a 2tb 2.5" ssd out of my old system.

 

So, I have two questions, first is: is it worth adding in the other two SSD's, and any suggestions on how to set them up, partition them or what have you?

and should I set them up in RAID, and what level? (as a side note I back-up regularly to an external hard drive)

 

On a side note, this is my first real build. I feel pretty comfortable with the mechanical side of it as I have replaced components before in a variety of PC's, but this is first build from scratch. However, apart from simply things (booting an OS from a thumb drive, simply troubleshooting, etc) the software set-up side is fairly foreign to me.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Might as well use them if you hve them. Id put the os in the 1tb nvme, then split the games bettween the nvme drive and the other drives. I don't see a erason to use raid here, esp with mixed drive sizes.

[Bombastinator]

Howdy and welcome

 

There seem to be 4 drives: a 256gb nvme, a 1tb nvme, a 500gb sata SSD, and. 2tb sata SSD. 
 

none of these will RAID well together as they are all different sizes. There is an option of JBOD, but there are limitations and all it does is make a single larger drive space.  
 

It would seem that the two largest drives, the 1tb nvme and the 2tb sata ssd would be the most useful pieces.  That makes for 3tb of total storage which is a lot for a games machine.

[BriscoBones]

Gotcha, now is there any benefit to using the faster drives for the OS?

Also, I have just started building the PC and noticed the CPU box is a little beat up directly where the cpu sits, how tough are these things? (obviously bent pins are serious no-no, but shock-wise?)

 

 

[Bombastinator]

Decent chance it’s ok. They’re solid state.  Only way to know of course is to try it.  There arent any HDDs in your list so an advantage wouldn’t be that large between the drives you have.  The thing about SSDs in general is they’re all really fast so it would likely be a difference of at most a few seconds for loading.  A faster drive would be faster, but perceptually it doesn’t make a lot of noticeable difference. 

Edited October 12, 2020 by Bombastinator

[BriscoBones]

Well, I am writing on the new build. Still trying to figure some stuff out. Fun fact, apparently that M.2 NVMe 1TB SSd I bought, I bought two of them by accident lol. So, now I have 2tb of m.2, and 2.5tb of 2.5" storage!

 

One issue I notice in the BIOS, my ram is being read as "unknown 32gb 2667" or something like that but I am running 32gb 3660, I was able to turn on an XMP profile and got it up to 3600, but its still being read as 2667, not sure if this is bad or not?

 

Also, still trying to figure out all the drivers I need and how to update them, nvidia seemed to install itself which was nice.