Should I separate games from OS between two different SSD's?

[Dekuuz]

I'm planning on getting a 256GB NVMe just for Windows 10 and a 1TB SATA SSD for games. Or should I just get 1TB and install both OS and games on it? Thanks in advance!

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, Dekuuz said:

I'm planning on getting a 256GB NVMe just for Windows 10 and a 1TB SATA SSD for games. Or should I just get 1TB and install both OS and games on it? Thanks in advance!

Just use one. There is no reason to separate them. 

[da na]

Just now, LIGISTX said:

Just use one. There is no reason to separate them. 

Unless you want a separate bigger HDD for games, but I would recommend just a 1tb nvme.

[LIGISTX]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

Unless you want a separate bigger HDD for games, but I would recommend just a 1tb nvme.

Sure, but that would be a different use case; if your currently played games library is too large to affordable fit on SSD, put OS and most played games on SSD, rest on a very large HDD.

 

For OP, no reason to buy a 256 just for windows and a 1TB just for games.

[da na]

Just now, LIGISTX said:

Sure, but that would be a different use case; if your currently played games library is too large to affordable fit on SSD, put OS and most played games on SSD, rest on a very large HDD.

 

For OP, no reason to buy a 256 just for windows and a 1TB just for games.

Yeah the only reason to separate them nowadays is if you want like 4 or 8 tb which you need a separate HDD for.

[G_K]

 

9 minutes ago, Dekuuz said:

I'm planning on getting a 256GB NVMe just for Windows 10 and a 1TB SATA SSD for games. Or should I just get 1TB and install both OS and games on it? Thanks in advance!

I would have games just on first drive, not the os drive, at the start i had my games on my first drive becasue thats what i could afford at the time, but now i have my os just on the m.2 ssd for bootup and applications loading, and have seprate drives for games as you can see in the screenshot, its much better

 

 

[Chris Pratt]

Bear in mind that DirectStorage is coming soon. You're going to likely want at least some NVMe space just for games that make use of it. You can still keep a larger HDD or something for older games, as they won't see any benefit from NVMe.

 

Also 500GB is really the bare minimum SSD capacity you should go for nowadays. Anything less will likely only have a single chip of NAND flash, which is going to hurt performance.

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, Uknown0002 said:

 

I would have games just on first drive, not the os drive, at the start i had my games on my first drive becasue thats what i could afford at the time, but now i have my os just on the m.2 ssd for bootup and applications loading, and have seprate drives for games as you can see in the screenshot, its much better

 

 

Define better. Performance is the same… 

 

No reason not to store games on your OS drive if you have space for it, and buying a SSD just for the OS is a waste. Nothing wrong with buying more SSD’s as you need more space, but no reason to not also use your boot drive.