Mass SSD Storage Help

[Ophidio]

I'm wanting to change all of my mass storage devices to SSD's from mechanical drives finally but I don't know if I should go with sata or NVMe.

 

I currently have 2 1TB PCIE 4.0 NVME drives that I use for all of my games and programs. I currently just use my HDDs to the majority of my library on at all times and just transfer them from the HDD to the SSD if I need or want to play them but the trasnfer speed from the HDD is really slow and a little to slow with how big games have gotten. 

 

I can either get 2 4TB sata drives and not have to worry about anything but plugging them in, or I can get 2 4TB NVMe drives and also buy a PCIE adapter to hold both of them. 

 

Which would be my best option?

 

System Specs:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus

32GB RAM

2 x  1TB Sabrent Rocket 4's

2 x 2TB Werstern Digital HDDs

EVGA 3070

EVGA G2 750W

 

Note: I am somewhat of a data hoarder so getting bigger drives is kind of required for my mental health. I will be get getting a 10TB mechanical drive as well to keep backups of everything else as well and just to have for files I don't use as much and don't require a lot of speed for me to access. 

[Dedayog]

I'd get 2x 4TB SATA drives personally. No benefit for data/games SATA vs NVMe and it cuts out  the need for an adapter.

[Blue4130]

3 hours ago, Ophidio said:

 or I can get 2 4TB NVMe drives and also buy a PCIE adapter to hold both of them.

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MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus

Unless you get an expensive PCie card with a switch chip, you will only be able to use one nvme in it. The second Pcie x16 slot is only wired x4, not x16.

 

You could replace your current m.2's though...

[NewMaxx]

1 hour ago, Blue4130 said:

Unless you get an expensive PCie card with a switch chip, you will only be able to use one nvme in it. The second Pcie x16 slot is only wired x4, not x16.

Yep, and that PCIe slot conflicts with M.2_2. That said, the OP might be a good candidate for something like Sabrent's EC-P3X4 if the goal is to have a lot of SSD storage. Bandwidth restricted but still faster than SATA (incl. in latency + IOPS). For a "data hoarder" that might be a reasonable solution minus the loss of the 2nd M.2. SATA is easier (and cheaper w/o the adapter) but has much less choice and quality.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

2 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Unless you get an expensive PCie card with a switch chip, you will only be able to use one nvme in it. The second Pcie x16 slot is only wired x4, not x16.

 

1 hour ago, NewMaxx said:

Yep, and that PCIe slot conflicts with M.2_2. 

And OP is already using M.2_2:

6 hours ago, Ophidio said:

2 x  1TB Sabrent Rocket 4's

 

So, OP, you are out of PCIe lanes for NVMe SSDs. You have 4 SATA ports available and free of conflict, though, so that seems the easy way to go. If you really need multiple PCIe drives, you could swap to an X570 board, then get the PCIe RAID card for NVMEs, OR a non-RAID PCIe AIC if your X570 supports bifurcation. Otherwise, it's either "downgrade" to older HEDT, go bankrupt getting current workstation Threadripper, or wait and hope "prosumer" HEDT makes a comeback.