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I took the bite and ditched all hard drives inside my main rig. I kept a single 6.4 GB HGST DeskStar NAS drive in an external Vantec USB3 box, containing a copy of my data. It'll be mostly turned off most of the time.

I've gone with all SSDs inside my rig.

2 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (OS Drive)

1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (Scratch Drive)

4 TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe M.2 SSD (Bulk Storage /BackUps)

1 TB WD Blue 3DNAND SATA III SSD (File History Drive)

Feels good to cut the cord (for the most part) on hard drives for my everyday computer. Later down the road I may build a small capacity NAS running TrueNAS and use the pulled drives... maybe. Manipulating files has been pain in the ass free since the move to solid state...

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18 minutes ago, BlackDragon1971 said:

I took the bite and ditched all hard drives inside my main rig. I kept a single 6.4 GB HGST DeskStar NAS drive in an external Vantec USB3 box, containing a copy of my data. It'll be mostly turned off most of the time.

I've gone with all SSDs inside my rig.

2 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (OS Drive)

1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (Scratch Drive)

4 TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe M.2 SSD (Bulk Storage /BackUps)

1 TB WD Blue 3DNAND SATA III SSD (File History Drive)

Feels good to cut the cord (for the most part) on hard drives for my everyday computer. Later down the road I may build a small capacity NAS running TrueNAS and use the pulled drives... maybe. Manipulating files has been pain in the ass free since the move to solid state...

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Cool! My last PC had only an HDD, my new one has a boot SSD but an HDD for storage, and hopefully my next PC will be all SSD 😊

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A couple of years ago there were a lot of good deals on NVME. I used an Asus Hyper M.2 when I was on AM4, but I have all 4 of my slots populated, plus an adapter for another slot. I do have a backup of my pics, music, apps and stuff like that on a spinner. But it is not installed in my system.. I could run some SATA SSD's, but I am trying to get away from wires inside my system. I have become a snob like that I guess..

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7 hours ago, BlackDragon1971 said:

I took the bite and ditched all hard drives inside my main rig. I kept a single 6.4 GB HGST DeskStar NAS drive in an external Vantec USB3 box, containing a copy of my data. It'll be mostly turned off most of the time.

I've gone with all SSDs inside my rig.

2 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (OS Drive)

1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (Scratch Drive)

4 TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe M.2 SSD (Bulk Storage /BackUps)

1 TB WD Blue 3DNAND SATA III SSD (File History Drive)

Feels good to cut the cord (for the most part) on hard drives for my everyday computer. Later down the road I may build a small capacity NAS running TrueNAS and use the pulled drives... maybe. Manipulating files has been pain in the ass free since the move to solid state...

BlackDragon

My gaming PC still has spinning rust. I have 1 M.2 drive for Windows, 1 1TB HDD for games, 1 1TB SSHD for games and 1 2TB SATA SSD for games. The HDD is from an old gaming machine. The SSHD is from an old laptop. I like to reuse older hardware if I can. 

 

It wasn't up until recently games started to require an SSD to be played. I dont do much gaming now days and Im not a fan of most modern day games, so I haven't upgraded. My current motherboard only has 1 M.2 Slot, so I cant add more. Maybe the next machine will be all SSD. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

My gaming PC still has spinning rust. I have 1 M.2 drive for Windows, 1 1TB HDD for games, 1 1TB SSHD for games and 1 2TB SATA SSD for games. The HDD is from an old gaming machine. The SSHD is from an old laptop. I like to reuse older hardware if I can. 

 

It wasn't up until recently games started to require an SSD to be played. I dont do much gaming now days and Im not a fan of most modern day games, so I haven't upgraded. My current motherboard only has 1 M.2 Slot, so I cant add more. Maybe the next machine will be all SSD. 

As is the case for my PC most of the hardware is used or refurbished parts. In my x99 chipset / Intel Core i7 6850k system downstairs, I use an 1x m.2 slot ASUS Hyper card in the PCIe slot... may be an option for you.

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6 hours ago, BlackDragon1971 said:

use an 1x m.2 slot ASUS Hyper card in the PCIe slot... may be an option for you.

Nope, I have a Mini ITX board. So only 1 PCIE slot which is used for the GPU. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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Cool. I ditched it like 15y ago as main and a bit later all drives. Also no SATA anything.

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10 hours ago, BlackDragon1971 said:

As is the case for my PC most of the hardware is used or refurbished parts. In my x99 chipset / Intel Core i7 6850k system downstairs, I use an 1x m.2 slot ASUS Hyper card in the PCIe slot... may be an option for you.

same here. The card I'm using runs at x16 and I see virtually no difference in performance between the card and the on board nVME. granted it's only 3.0, but so is my current motherboard.

https://www.newegg.com/riitop-model-m2tpce16x-pci-express-controller-card/p/17Z-0061-00052?

 

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