Questions about what amount storage is good

[g335]

Hello 

I have a 7950x system which is for gaming and productivity work, 3D design, 3D rendering, movie editing, etc.

 

I have a Asus Strix Gaming B650E-E mb with 2 gen 5 NVME slots and 2 gen 4 NVME slots.

 

I bought 1 1TB 980 Pro NVME drive which is in a lot 1 of the Gen 5 slots.

I also have 1 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVME drive. Haven’t installed it.

 

I am planning on using the 980 Pro for O S and productivity apps. 
 

For a NVME for only games, how large should I get?  I play games like Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid, Skyrim, Mine Craft with mod packs, GTA V, etc. 

 

Will the 970 EVO Plus be much slower than the 980 Pro?

[Applefreak]

15 minutes ago, g335 said:

Hello 

I have a 7950x system which is for gaming and productivity work, 3D design, 3D rendering, movie editing, etc.

 

I have a Asus Strix Gaming B650E-E mb with 2 gen 5 NVME slots and 2 gen 4 NVME slots.

 

I bought 1 1TB 980 Pro NVME drive which is in a lot 1 of the Gen 5 slots.

I also have 1 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVME drive. Haven’t installed it.

 

I am planning on using the 980 Pro for O S and productivity apps. 
 

For a NVME for only games, how large should I get?  I play games like Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid, Skyrim, Mine Craft with mod packs, GTA V, etc. 

 

Will the 970 EVO Plus be much slower than the 980 Pro?

Games will run just fine on SATA based SSDs, there is little to no difference in games with NVME drives. The benefit is in productivity tasks such as video rendering, virtualization, querying large datasets etc.

 

The size depends on how much you actually need. No one can answer that one for you. 1TB SSDs are pretty good in price right now. 2TB are still a bit overpriced. Older and especially smaller games (in file size) will work just fine on a regular HDD as well. You may want to add one for storage later on if you have larger project folders that you do not need all the time. 

[PDifolco]

24 minutes ago, g335 said:

Hello 

I have a 7950x system which is for gaming and productivity work, 3D design, 3D rendering, movie editing, etc.

 

I have a Asus Strix Gaming B650E-E mb with 2 gen 5 NVME slots and 2 gen 4 NVME slots.

 

I bought 1 1TB 980 Pro NVME drive which is in a lot 1 of the Gen 5 slots.

I also have 1 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVME drive. Haven’t installed it.

 

I am planning on using the 980 Pro for O S and productivity apps. 
 

For a NVME for only games, how large should I get?  I play games like Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid, Skyrim, Mine Craft with mod packs, GTA V, etc. 

 

Will the 970 EVO Plus be much slower than the 980 Pro?

With such a beefy PC, you could get a 2TB Gen4 drive (I recommend SN850X) and store whatever you need for quite some time

[YoungBlade]

When it comes to gaming you wouldn't see much difference between the slowest DRAM-less SATA drive and a top-of-the-line NVMe drive for game loading. We're talking about a couple of seconds between the two when it comes to game loading times. So if you wanted a lot of games storage, you can get a 2TB SATA SSD for under $100 right now, and barring a few edge cases, you wouldn't be able to tell a difference in a blind test.

 

So no, there will be no difference in performance between a 970 Evo Plus and a 980 Pro when it comes to gaming.

[Coaxialgamer]

You're unlikely to notice any difference between a bog-standard SATA SSD and a cutting edge NVME drive if you're running games of it. That being said, given the relative price parity of NVME and SATA drives these days, it would be silly not to grab a 2TB NVME drive when those can be had for 150 USD a pop.

 

the ultimate question here is how much storage do you think you need? Do you want all your games to be on your drive at the same time? 2TB is a no-brainer price-wise, but frankly a 500GB unit is also fine if you're just going to be installing them games you've explicitely listed,

[Chiyawa]

Depends, but I usually use HDD for my game drive, since they can get quite large (Genshin Impact hog almost 33GB, and will only hog more as the game keeps updating).

 

But if you want to go to SSD, well, depends on how big your game library is. My game library is obviously very large (close to 1.6TB) so I use a 1TB SATA SSD to store the game I frequently play and get a HDD to store the rest of the game. 2TB SSD, even if it is the cheap 2.5 inch SATA type, are still expensive for me.