For a Windows desktop computer that’s additionally employed for 4K gaming, what hard drive capacity is advised?
For a Windows desktop computer that’s additionally employed for 4K gaming, what hard drive capacity is advised?
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“Let’s address two storage needs. First, an older PC requires a 500GB drive – nearly full. For a new Windows 10 workstation dedicated to gaming (potentially including 4K titles), I recommend at least 1TB. Considering you anticipate playing 5-10 4K games annually, and given the performance benefits of NVMe M.2 drives, an additional 1TB would provide ample headroom for future game installations and system files. The NVMe drive will significantly improve loading times compared to a traditional SATA SSD.”
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Few games have optional high-resolution textures that are exclusively for 4k, so gaming resolution has very limited bearing on storage requirement. The storage you need is whatever will fit the games you want to keep on it regardless of resolution.
1TB is enough for about a dozen modern wallet-ripping, DLC-ladden, microtransaction-plagued 'AAA' games. Depending on how many games you want to keep on the ready, 2TB may be more comfortable.
Few games have optional high-resolution textures that are exclusively for 4k, so gaming resolution has very limited bearing on storage requirement. The storage you need is whatever will fit the games you want to keep on it regardless of resolution.
1TB is enough for about a dozen modern wallet-ripping, DLC-ladden, microtransaction-plagued 'AAA' games. Depending on how many games you want to keep on the ready, 2TB may be more comfortable.
Thanks. I use NvME for work storage. For 4K gaming, does the speed of the SSD matter? Will I see noticable different in performance between NvME M.2 and SATA III? For example, Samsung 970 EVO 2TB vs. Samsung 860 2.5" SATA III 2TB.
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Solid-state drives (SSDs) offer significantly faster speeds compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). This is primarily due to SSDs' ability to access data much more quickly – typically 20 to 50 times faster in terms of random access latency. While HDDs rely on spinning platters, SSDs use flash memory for storage, eliminating the mechanical delays associated with moving parts.
The difference between SATA and NVMe SSDs is less pronounced in many everyday scenarios. Modern operating systems and software often cache frequently used data in RAM, meaning that after an initial load, accessing information from RAM is much faster than retrieving it from an HDD or even a slower SATA SSD.
Furthermore, if you have at least 16GB of RAM, the impact of using an HDD to store your games will be minimized because most of the loading time comes from the initial data transfer, not repeated access. While NVMe drives offer even greater speeds, the difference isn’t always noticeable for typical gaming loads. I personally prefer storing my games on a 1TB WD Black HDD as it's cost-effective and provides ample storage space, and the speed difference is less critical to me.
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SATA HDD vs SSD is a huge performance upgrade due to SSDs having 20-50X lower random access latency. If you have at lest 16GB of RAM though, most recently used data will be cached in RAM and you only get the "HDD penalty" the first time something gets loaded. I personally don't mind leaving my games on my 1TB WD Black HDD.
SATA vs NVMe SSD makes a much smaller difference in most everyday uses since software spends a significant amount of time processing data as it gets loaded.
Thanks. I have 64GB RAM.
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For 2TB SSD, which is faster? 970 EVO or 970 PRO? Is the difference noticable?
As I have already written earlier, the difference from SATA to NVMe SSD is already small in most everyday uses. The main benefits of Pro vs EVO are higher endurance, higher IOPS and higher sustainable write speed. Typical everyday home user/gamer workloads are mostly large random reads. Unless you are running a massive database or something else of the sort that generates massive amounts of small random read-writes, you aren't going to see much benefit from it.
970 EVO vs. 970 PRO – Which is faster for a 2TB SSD? Is the difference noticeable, especially considering you’re doing data science work that involves large random reads/writes? The primary benefits of the Pro version are higher endurance, increased IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and sustained write speeds. For typical home user/gamer workloads – which are predominantly large, random reads – the performance difference between the two NVMe versions is minimal. Unless you're dealing with extremely heavy database loads or similar intensive operations, you likely won’t see a significant advantage. The transition from SATA to NVMe SSDs already provides a noticeable boost in speed for most everyday tasks.