New Storage Setup

[Elo Gaming]

So I built my computer about two years ago and I just had a 1tb WD Blue hard drive but now I am about 50gb away from filling it up so I wanted to buy some extra storage. I asked a friend kind of setup i should get and he recommended to get a large hard drive and a optane drive and a separate boot ssd. A question that I had was if optane on a secondary drive is supported with my motherboard ( MSI Z270 Gaming M3 ) and my processor is a 7600k. Also my budget is about $200 so what size hard drive and ssd and optane drive should i get?

[Slottr]

Get a 240gb or 500gb SSD, then a whatever x TB sized hard drive

 

Then move windows over to the SSD

 

Don't waste your money on optane 

 

 

[Elo Gaming]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Get a 240gb or 500gb SSD, then a whatever x TB sized hard drive

 

Don't waste your money on optane 

is optane not worth the performance?

[Slottr]

2 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

is optane not worth the performance?

If you were only ever going to only use mechanical drives, maybe.

 

With the OS on an SSD though I wouldnt worry about it

[Elo Gaming]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

If you were only ever going to only use mechanical drives, maybe.

 

With the OS on an SSD though I wouldnt worry about it

oh ok that makes sense. what m.2 ssd would be the best for under 100

 

[Slottr]

3 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

oh ok that makes sense. what m.2 ssd would be the best for under 100

 

Id get a sata drive actually, theyre fairly cheaper than m.2 NVME drive for a much larger capacity.

 

Look at something like the 860 evo

 

 

[Elo Gaming]

5 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Id get a sata drive actually, theyre fairly cheaper than m.2 NVME drive for a much larger capacity.

 

Look at something like the 860 evo

 

 

But i would like my boot drive to be fast and i guess i could try getting a sata storage drive

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, Elo Gaming said:

But i would like my boot drive to be fast and i guess i could try getting a sata storage drive

sata vs nvme will make a tiny difference, you won't notice it. Latency and low queue depth iops is what you will notice, and there about the same on sata and nvme drives.

[Elo Gaming]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

sata vs nvme will make a tiny difference, you won't notice it. Latency and low queue depth iops is what you will notice, and there about the same on sata and nvme drives.

Oh that makes sense. I will look into a sata ssd for my boot drive. Another question I had was how would i take my 1tb drive boot drive over to the new drive if its a smaller than 1tb? (Im talking about drive cloning)

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, Elo Gaming said:

Oh that makes sense. I will look into a sata ssd for my boot drive. Another question I had was how would i take my 1tb drive boot drive over to the new drive if its a smaller than 1tb? (Im talking about drive cloning)

How much space on your hdd are you using?

 

The easy way is a reinstall, otherwise look at some cloning programs.