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quick question i planing to to get a m.2 drive and just wanted to know does anyone know is there a noticeable difference in game load time when installing a game on a m.2 drive with windows vs a m.2 drive just with the game on it. also i already have a Samsung 860 EVO 250GB that im probably going to install most games on and maybe use the m.2 drive for 1 or two games and a Linux distro ,so what m.2 drive would you recommend me getting for my use case  im thinking about getting the XPG SX8200 480GB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (ASX8200NP-480GT-C), 2 x Samsung 970 EVO 250GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E250BW), or one Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E500BW)

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You don't need an NVMe drive for games. A SATA SSD will perform just as well and save you money.

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save and get a sata samsung evo ssd and plus you'll get more storage out of it aha

 

 

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The price to speed difference from an NVME M.2 to a Sata SSD in games and windows boot times are super freakin negligible. Best setup would be Sata SSD for a few of the games you need it to load faster on plus windows and a regular hard drive for mass storage (other games you don't need to load fast or misc like pictures and shiz yknow?) I'd say only buy NVME if you do transfer files super often and you actually need it to go fast (or you're rich, either one works lol).

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52 minutes ago, JacTech17 said:

quick question i planing to to get a m.2 drive and just wanted to know does anyone know is there a noticeable difference in game load time when installing a game on a m.2 drive with windows vs a m.2 drive just with the game on it. also i already have a Samsung 860 EVO 250GB that im probably going to install most games on and maybe use the m.2 drive for 1 or two games and a Linux distro ,so what m.2 drive would you recommend me getting for my use case  im thinking about getting the XPG SX8200 480GB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (ASX8200NP-480GT-C), 2 x Samsung 970 EVO 250GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E250BW), or one Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E500BW)

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on newegg this one for 153 with promo code EMCPYEY27 

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