2TB Nvme SSD as boot drive?

[A Silver]

I am looking to upgrade my storage (currently have 2 SATA ssd's and one 2tb HDD) and I want to get a 2tb nvme SSD for games. As it would be faster than my SATA drives I want to make it my boot drive too. Is it a bad idea to make that SSD a boot and game drive or should I stick to a smaller SSD to boot from and keep games seperate?

[WintorialsLift]

2TB is usually plenty for most people, even for BOTH a boot drive and game drive. It isn't a "bad idea" by any means. It really is up to you whether you want to use the NVMe drive purely for boot+apps or if you want to install your games on it too.

In terms of performance, game load times between a SATA and NVMe SSD are not that different, usually off by like, 5 seconds at most.

 

TL DR: up to you, just make sure to plan ahead

[A Silver]

2 hours ago, WintorialsLift said:

2TB is usually plenty for most people, even for BOTH a boot drive and game drive. It isn't a "bad idea" by any means. It really is up to you whether you want to use the NVMe drive purely for boot+apps or if you want to install your games on it too.

In terms of performance, game load times between a SATA and NVMe SSD are not that different, usually off by like, 5 seconds at most.

 

TL DR: up to you, just make sure to plan ahead

Thanks for the info! I was worried having both the OS and a bunch of large games would impact performance but seems it should be fine!