Posted June 25, 2016 I have 6 sata ports on my Gigabyte UD3 990fx rev4 board. as far as pcie it has PCI Express 2.0 x16 4 (x16, x16, x4, x4) PCI Express x1 2 x PCI Express x1 PCI Slots 1 x PCI Slot I am using a x16 for my 980. I am wondering about adding a pcie SSD to the system. I have a 240gb ssd (primary) and 120gb ssd and 2 1tb mech drives, a dvdrom drive I do use and a front esata port that goes to my fan controller/sd card reader esata which I might be able to unplug as I don't use it ATM. So if I was to add another ssd or 2 , I have a few questions: Can I put 2 of them in RAID 0 for a performance boost? Are they worth it vs SATA? Are they actually faster than SATA? What can you recommend? I would use it to install games to. I use my 240gb (kingston furyx) as my primary , OS, a bunch of games, daily driver apps etc. The 120 ssd I use for games like GTAV and about 3 small games. the mech drives are the rest of my games, music,movies pictures you get the idea..everything else. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 25, 2016 yes its faster but unless youre a content creator you will not notice it at all and it will be a waste of money instead of just throwing more drives at the problem how about being a bit organized and replacing your tiny SSDs/HDDs with larger ones, and moving your data to it? your SSDs aren't that good in the first place NEW PC build: Blank Heaven minimalist white and black PC Old S340 build log "White Heaven" The "LIGHTCANON" flashlight build log Project AntiRoll (prototype) Custom speaker project Spoiler Ryzen 3950X | AMD Vega Frontier Edition | ASUS X570 Pro WS | Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB | NZXT H500 | Seasonic Prime Fanless TX-700 | Custom loop | Coolermaster SK630 White | Logitech MX Master 2S | Samsung 980 Pro 1TB + 970 Pro 512GB | Samsung 58" 4k TV | Scarlett 2i4 | 2x AT2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 25, 2016 Author 5 minutes ago, Enderman said: yes its faster but unless youre a content creator you will not notice it at all and it will be a waste of money instead of just throwing more drives at the problem how about being a bit organized and replacing your tiny SSDs/HDDs with larger ones, and moving your data to it? your SSDs aren't that good in the first place eh I am happy with the performance of my evo 840 and furyx. I have them in and established and am not looking to replace them until one dies. I am looking to add more drives either by adding a pcie drive, looking for suggestions and info, or maybe even a sata card. edit: I do edit videos but I use one of the mech drives for storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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