I have a pretty special use PC building. it's going to be mounted inside of a pinball cabinet, it is only going to be used to run virtual pinball. It will run one 4K display although I just downgraded my build and I don't ) lmy GPU is going to push 4K all that well. More on that in a moment.

My question is about the drives. I have an m.2 1tb SSD. this drive will hold all of the pinball tables and files.

I'm going to put windows 11 onto a second drive (or I suppose this would be the first drive), and I am considering an SATA drive. this drive would probably only be 500 GB. (full blown virtual pinball cabinets are expensive to build. I'm trying to cut some corners, and save a few bucks.... lol)

is there any issue with running the OS on a SATA drive?

If you read this far, I'll ask you a more exciting question.

I've gone through a lot of variations of what I'm going to do for a GPU. and ended up building a system with a 4080s. that was going to go into the pinball cabinet.

within the last couple of days, I was almost going to buy a 5070 TI pre-built from Microcenter open box. but I have decided to scrap that plan.

I'm keeping the 4080s as my 4K gaming computer.

and I'm going to stick my old 3060 TI system into the pinball cabinet. for running virtual pinball, 120 HZ is pretty important. I don't think I'm going to make it that high with the 3060ti. my logic is that in reality, I think about 85% of my enjoyment of building a virtual pinball cabinet, is the building of the cabinet.

after the cabinet's built and tested, it will still get played, but it's in no means going to get played everyday. in reality I could see myself playing pinball for maybe an hour a week. that's not quite enough. play time to justify putting something like a 4080s system or a 5070 TI into the cabinet.

If I do end up playing more, I'll be able to pull the 3060 TI out, and put in a more capable GPU. at that point I would take the 360 TI, I will use it to build a dedicated light gun arcade cabinet.

any thoughts on the 3060 TI in a dedicated virtual financing? 4k as close as I can get to 120 HZ as I can. I should mention, that the GPU also has to push out two smaller displays. neither of them are 4K. One of them is simulating a. matrix so that's pretty low workload. The other is a 32-in 1080 display.