Any recemendations on a SSD?
My samsung 980 1tb is no longer big enough to support DCS.
Looking to go for a 4tb NVME SSD.
I have 2 crucial nvme’s and the one Samsung.
Probably looking at the crucial p3 plus since its under $300.
Any recommendations?
Based on tests of both the 1TB and 2TB model, the Lexar NM790 has consistently been the “Best Bang for Buck” at Tweakers here in NL. Unless its price is way higher where you live, that is my recommendation.
If you want to move your C drive though, best to go with Samsung and pay the premium as they have a nice migration tool for that.
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I’ve always run with Samsung because of reliability and performance (I have a 2 TB 970 and 1TB 870 EVOs). I’ve had others like Crucial, WD, and Team Group, but they were all inconsistent. I had to do 2 RMAs with my Crucial, but the Samsungs were “go” out of the box. It could be my mobo or dumb luck… 
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Thanks guys. Ill check those out.
C drive isnt moving.
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I was looking into new hardware and decided for myself that I would get a Samsung 990 Pro if I would get one today.
Have plenty of Samsung and Intel SSD‘s, none failed so far. Even quite old models are fine.
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FWIW I picked this one up for my old PC (circa 2016), replacing a HDD. DCS loads a LOT faster is the best review I can give. Had it for about a month, used daily. No issues. Used same connectors so beyond doing a transfer of data, pretty easy install.
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If you have an M.2 slot for it, an NVMe drive is much faster than SATA. I remember a side by side benchmark video of MSFS between an HDD, a SATA SSD and an NVMe SSD. The difference in loading times was huge between the HDD and the SSDs. Between the SSDs not much.
But there was another big difference between the NVMe and the SATA: NVMe had no stutters. MSFS from a SATA did have stutters. Min FPS on NVMe was 25, on the SATA it was 3. HDD had much worse performance overall
IME, Gen 4 or 5 does not seem to make much difference yet, as of today, most games get all the bandwidth they need from even Gen3 PCI NVME SSDs. But the difference with SATA is already noticeable.
Found it:
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I’ve seen same in the past (DCS), on my newer box.
On the PC I mentioned above NVMe wasn’t a ‘thing’ then (or was priced out of my range at the time, don’t recall); I think the HDD was, well, just tired.
The difference, loading, between that old HDD was an order of magnitude faster (or more). It was was good for the time (no issues found during tests) but going from 3 minutes to 30 seconds to load DCS allows me to keep some hair on my head.
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I like my PNY Gen 3 and Gen 4 drives, they’ve been faultless. I’ve also had good experiences with Crucial drives, though only Gen4 in smaller capacities.
I’ve heard enough bad things about Silicon Power drives to give them a wide berth, despite the attractive price.
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Agreed. I tried Silicon Power drives and none of them worked. I had to do multiple returns to Amazon. The situation was such, that I was worried Amazon would not allow me to do yet another return. I decided to give up and stick with what worked.
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I plan to buy a bunch of 4TB Samsung SSD SATA Drives and JBOD array them as one big drive.
I still have a few traditional HDDs that I want to move to solid state.
I did try to order 4 of the 4tb SP SSDs a few months back and all of them were either DoA or failing from day 1.
I may just get a PCIex8 M.2 Card to stack more M.2’s on instead of 2.5’ SSDs.
I Might also give TeamGroup T-Force SSDs a shot.
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That’s what I’d recommend. Over here, SATA SSDs tend to be the same price or even more expensive than NVMe (except the much slower QLC drives), while NVMe drives perform much better.
You can also take the PCIe M.2 converter with you to your next build.
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Well,
3+ years ago I had 2 GPUs, 5+ years ago I had 3-Way CrossFire’d GPUs.
Now I only have one, and I have 3 PCIe X16s, w/ 2 Fully x16, and 1 a x8. and two x2’s.
I also don’t run the black magic hardware HDMI recording card anymore either.
So I have a bunch of open slots, I also need to upgrade my USB 3 Card, as that’s ~6 years old now, and Still early USB 3.0, I want to get one with Usb 3.2 and the Highest PowerDelivery Line I can to plug a Quest III into and not have to worry about the battery dying.
I’m looking at maybe a 4 slot M.2
M.2’s Even the cheaper PCIe 3 ones are 3-3500MB/sec,
SATA ~ 450 Mb’s
From what I can sell, they are ~5% of each other in price.
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Can I just jump on this thread, so I don’t need to start another one?
I have a 500 GB SSD internal on my gaming PC. But it’s full and can’t even install some games like ArmA3 on it due to size.
I was thinking about just getting another internal SSD and adding it inside, I’m sure my modern PC has an extra slot BUT I already have 4 external USB SSD’s mainly used for back up and what not. Is it feasible just to use one of those external USB SSD drives as a second drive for more games? I’m sure load times might be longer, but will actual gameplay be affected?
Thx
Well external means it has to use a different data bus, USB, instead of the faster SATA III.
You can do it but it will affect loading time
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What @komemiute said has been my experience. You should have more SATA connectivity if you have only one SSD currently installed - you may have one or more SATA 'plug’s likely at the end of the existing SATA cable (or slot on the motherboard for another cable).
SATA cable
SSD connection
Motherboard end of connection (locations vary a lot based on MB manufacturer)
I am by no means an expert but all my PC’s going back a decade or more have multiple SATA connections.
I recently upgraded/replaced (not an addition) an 8 yo HDD with a SSD. Was not my boot drive however it was just a matter of copying what I wanted to keep from the old drive to somewhere (USB drive in your case?); unplugging the HDD & plugging the SSD in its place (SATA cable); copying the data back to the new SSD drive.
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With the holidays coming up, I’m keeping a close eye on the Samsung 990 4 TB NVME drives. If the price drops Ill pull the trigger.
Is the migration tool their Magician Software?
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So, is this telling me I can have only 1 SSD drive?
“Your computer supports one of the following configurations:
One M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive, one 3.5-inch hard drive, and two 2.5-inch hard drives”
If so, it’s only 500GB, might have to just buy a new SSD drive and install fresh.
thx
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SSD is just the technology involved in the making of the Hard Disk. The Motherboard doesn’t care what’s inside.
Either of the 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch HDDs can be anything.
The discriminant here is that apparently the Motherboard buses can only handle one of those three things at a time- which to me is a bit weird.
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