is 1 tb nvme ssd good and fast enough for windows 11 and games?

[Niz0909]

is 1 TB Samsung 980 ssd nvme good and fast enough for windows 11 and games?

[aryanpall]

yes

[Lord Szechenyi]

29 minutes ago, Niz0909 said:

is 1 TB

depends on how many games you want, and if you'll install anything else on it.

 

I'd say 128gb is enough, as I usually don't have more than 2 or 3 games installed at a time, but again, to each their own.

[Chris Pratt]

Capacity (1TB) depends on your needs, so we can't speak to that. I've got 3TB of game drives getting full.

 

As far as a Samsung 980 goes, yes, it's suddicient. Games currently can't make use of more than SATA3 speeds (600 MB/s) and it really only helps with load times. While actually playing a game, you wouldn't even know the difference between that and a hard drive pushing 150 MB/s.

 

Once DirectStorage is out in the wild and new games are actually using it, NVMe drives will start to matter, but even then, all indications are that Gen3 (PCIe 3.0) drives with maximum throughput of 3500 MB/s will be sufficient. Microsoft has already confirmed that DirectStorage will work with Gen3 drives, and the Xbox Series X|S (which uses the console equivalent of what DirectStorage will be on the PC) only has PCIe 4.0x2, which is functionally equivalent to Gen3 speeds.

 

That said, the 980 in general is not the best drive in its class. Something like a 970 Evo Plus or WB Black SN750 are much better drives.