Adding SSD's

[Nicholas Rodriguez]

Hello everyone! I just have one question and it might be a dump question as well but I already have two SSD added on my MOBO SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P1T0B/AM  and Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C  but I have an add in card where you can add multiple ssd's on and I was wondering.... obliviously I'll have tons of storage but will it make the loading times even quicker ? or it does not work that way? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P1T0B/AM

[Darkwing Drex]

not really. Unless you're moving from an old HDD with no cache to super fast nvme drive, you probably won't notice much of a difference.

[Bombastinator]

Depends on what is being loaded from where.  As a general rule more is often not better, but if the place you are adding them is this pcie card it would depend on the particulars of that card and how your mobo interacts with pcie.  If, for example, you’ve got it in a pcie slot that goes through the chipset then no.  Everything will get squeezed through the chipset to cpu hole regardless of what it has on the other side of that. So sometimes if nothing else was going you’d get the majority of 4 lanes of pcie and sometimes you’d ge a good deal less depending on what was going on. Just adding more storage will definitely not make everything more faster everywhere.

Edited December 5, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Jurrunio]

Your problem has more variables than you realize.

 

First variable is your PCIe to M.2 card's bandwidth. Consumer platforms dont get full x16 unless you use the top slot. Other slots get x8 or most commonly, x4. X4 typically means connection to the chipset which means it's shared by other devices such as some SATA drives and USB. The card might not even run all of its slots without full x16 connection.

 

Second variable is what start up speed you're talking about. If it's time to boot up the system, then no change because your OS is not in there. If it's apps that are in those M.2 drives, then if your PCIe bandwidth problem is solved it will be as fast as if you have it on your current boot drive.