Combining a M.2 and SSD for one single storage drive for games only?
Posted by 0Maka@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 6 comments
At the moment I have a 1TB M.2 and 1.4TB SSD that I install games on. Is it better to leave them as single drives or combine them into 1 as it is only games stored on the drives? I will assume the read and write speeds would be affected and take on the slower drives speeds?
petrujenac@reddit
So far you told us you have an M.2 SSD. What is the other one?
Black_dubbing@reddit
You give it a try and tell us
Sajgoniarz@reddit
What do you mean by combining them?
M2 is a standard of connector for SSD drives, so they doesn't carry any information in your post.
shawnkfox@reddit
I wouldn't. You are more than doubling the odds of losing your system due to disk failure all for the convenience of not having your select the drive to install a game on. Just install games on both drives.
If you are using steam, you can add multiple drives in the settings.
AtlQuon@reddit
Don't use RAID to combine them, you are asking for a lot of pain when something goes wrong. No other trickety either. Easiest is to just use two drives and you avoid so many potential headaches that you will otherwise will come across at some point.
Android8675@reddit
There’s a speed difference between these two devices. If you use a software raid to make them appear as one drive then both drives will only run at the slower speed. You’ll cripple your system (unless I’m misunderstanding something)
My prebuilt msi from like 2018 I think came with a 1tb ssd. I threw in a 1tb nvme and moved the os to the new drive. (Cloned) now the slower ssd is drive d. I install games I’m currently playing to the nvme because it’s a lot faster. Steam/GoG have ways to easily move games to different drives so if I’m running low I’ll move older games to d: drive (ssd).
Up to you how you want to do it, but what you describe I wouldn’t Recommend.