Moving Windows 10 OS from SATA to NVMe worth it?

[DonMatteo13]

Hi All,

So i've been having some micro stutter issues when games are installed to my HDD. I noticed that when I installed the game to my SATA Samsung 850 EVO 250gb SSD the stutters were reduced. I have just bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB and am about to instal it. The SATA SSD is about 6 or so years old. I'm wondering if it is worth moving the Windows OS to the 970. Will this improve general performance and maybe help reduce the stutter further? Or should I just leave the OS on the 850 as it won't change much if it is moved to the 970?

 

Furthermore, will removing the HDD improve performance even further? It is 2tb so I would like to leave it in to store all non-game media. But it is primarily a gaming PC so if it will help performance and reduce stutter i'll remove it.

[suedseefrucht]

10 minutes ago, DonMatteo13 said:

micro stutter issues when games are installed to my HDD. I noticed that when I installed the game to my SATA Samsung 850 EVO 250gb SSD the stutters were reduced

A little bit more information would be helpful. CPU? graphics card? RAM?

It's like saying: My car is slow sometimes. I pumped up the tires and it became a little bit faster.
Should I buy racing tires?

Well, it depends... Do you have a supersportscar or a family van? What engine do you have? 

 

So a NVME SSD can make your system a little bit faster if the SSD is limiting your other components.
But if your CPU and graphics card are too slow, even the best SSD can't make your PC faster.

[DonMatteo13]

1 minute ago, suedseefrucht said:

A little bit more information would be helpful. CPU? graphics card? RAM?

It's like saying: My car is slow sometimes. I pumped up the tires and it became a little bit faster.
Should I buyracing tires?

Well, it depends... Do you have a supersportscar or a family van? What engine do you have? 

 

So a NVME SSD can make your system a little bit faster if the SSD is limiting your other components.
But if you CPU and graphics card are too slow, even the best SSD can't make your PC faster.

Sorry see specs below:

-OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

-Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.6GHz

-Motherboard: MSI B450M MORTAR

-Memory: 16Gb RAM DDR4 (dual channel)

-Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (2x Ventus)

-PSU: RMx Series™ RM650x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX

-Monitor: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ HDR 27" WQHD 2560x1440 165Hz (I thought it was relevant to mention the monitor as I have both G-sync and ELMB sync enabled.)

 

This is my post asking about fixes to the stutter as well 

But no luck from the few suggestions I received

[MR H.]

between an ssd and an NVME it's almost no difference in boot time.

 

[DonMatteo13]

32 minutes ago, MR H. said:

between an ssd and an NVME it's almost no difference in boot time.

 

Regardless of the age of the SSD?

[suedseefrucht]

1 hour ago, DonMatteo13 said:

HDD. I noticed that when I installed the game to my SATA Samsung 850 EVO 250gb SSD the stutters were reduced

HDD to SSD is a noticable upgrade, but SATA SSD to NVME SSD is only relevant if you move tons of data.
Your RAM speed is "only" 3000 MHz and I've heard that Ryzen likes fast RAM.

But other than that, I have no idea what could help to fix the micro stutters.

[DarkSmith2]

IF anything it will probably make micro stutters even worse. Used Samsung 970evo for years as OS drive, i was always under the impression that it just throttles to normal SSD speed or even worse more than 90% of the time, ofc you could somehow "cool it" and reduce its lifespan while doing so, but in my experience NVME drives can be unreliable AF.