Advice on SSD

[SuperJack]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/VDnFLP

This is my current build.
The 3060 is temp until a better GPU that is white comes into stock.

Looking for new Storage.
Unsure about weather to get pcie 4.0 or pcie 3.0.

So either a pcie 3.0 for about £200
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/...ve-sb-rktq-2tb

Or pcie 4.0 for £260
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-...-read-3700mb-s

[Helz]

Honestly I very much doubt the difference between the two will matter for what you will use it for. That technology is best suited for moving massive amounts of data but kind of funny given the biggest units you will probably stick on it can unload its entire hard drive in a literal second or two.

From what I have seen performance wise there is no difference between the two for running an OS or games and only a very slight improvement from jumping from a SATA3 SSD to an M.2 SSD.

I say all that and I say its a waste but I did go for the 4.0 because.. fuck it. If I went close to the top on everything else I couldn't justify skimping out on the last piece. This is what I ran although I came seriously close to snagging that Corsair for the passive heat sink. Decided not to because my motherboard came with some anyways.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1


-edit
I would consider grabbing 2 1T units over a single 2T unless your motherboard doesn't have the ports though. Spreading data over multiple ports can take advantage of sending data over multiple bus' on your motherboard in my limited understanding and if the price point is the same I would go for redundancy.

[SuperJack]

Honestly I very much doubt the difference between the two will matter for what you will use it for. That technology is best suited for moving massive amounts of data but kind of funny given the biggest units you will probably stick on it can unload its entire hard drive in a literal second or two.

From what I have seen performance wise there is no difference between the two for running an OS or games and only a very slight improvement from jumping from a SATA3 SSD to an M.2 SSD.

I say all that and I say its a waste but I did go for the 4.0 because.. fuck it. If I went close to the top on everything else I couldn't justify skimping out on the last piece. This is what I ran although I came seriously close to snagging that Corsair for the passive heat sink. Decided not to because my motherboard came with some anyways.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1


-edit
I would consider grabbing 2 1T units over a single 2T unless your motherboard doesn't have the ports though. Spreading data over multiple ports can take advantage of sending data over multiple bus' on your motherboard in my limited understanding and if the price point is the same I would go for redundancy.

I have a 500g atm. Gonna get a 2T for my games and 250g for OS and use the 500g I have for media/shitty files until I buy a bigger case and get a HardDrive.

[DJarJar]

I have a 500g atm. Gonna get a 2T for my games and 250g for OS and use the 500g I have for media/shitty files until I buy a bigger case and get a HardDrive.

i've done the split thing before with os on 1 and games on another and don't recommend it. It can be painful sometimes with the appdata, programdata, and documents stuff getting strewn about both drives. I would just use a single 1TB ssd or 2TB if you play enough games for OS +games. And i wouldn't bother with the faster SSD.

For media just buy one of the WD external HDDs and then shuck it, it's very simple.