Should I have a drive for booting into windows, a drive for programs, and a drive for games

[SircarrotII]

For my PC I had the idea to have a 250 gigabyte m.2 drive as a boot drive. A 1 terabyte m.2 drive for programs like Cinebench, Steam and Epic. and a 1 terabyte SATA SSD or HDD for games. Is this a good storage configuration.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

250gb is more than enough for programs and th eos (windows will take maybe 60, so youd have in the 150gb range for programs) then you can get a tb hdd for game

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id just get. single large drive, like a 2tb ssd. You don't really need to split the boot drive to be separate, and games will be much faster on a ssd. Also gives you more slots to expand to later on with.

[Akolyte]

6 minutes ago, SircarrotII said:

For my PC I had the idea to have a 250 gigabyte m.2 drive as a boot drive. A 1 terabyte m.2 drive for programs like Cinebench, Steam and Epic. and a 1 terabyte SATA SSD or HDD for games. Is this a good storage configuration.

I agree that 250GB will probably do you just fine. 

 

Personally, my opinion is if you want more space for programs just get a bigger OS drive.  You can get up to 2TB Solid State Disks nowadays on the consumer market. 

 

Also, just my personal opinion - I think unless you are explicitly wanting storage for cold data like backups or archival - you're always better off to get SSDs.  So I'd get an SSD for your games for sure.  Not only for the reduction in noise, but for the speed and longevity too.