Hi Everyone,
My system is starting to get older and in the need for more space and faster storage, I treated myself and went with with a 1 GB NVMe m.2 PCI-E x 4 SSD (link below)
https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-blue-sn550-nvme-1tb/p/N82E16820250135
My question is: what to put on it to optimize TRS19? Three cases here:
1) Put only OS on it (Current OS is about 5 years old, using a Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, Sata 6 Gb/s port - works fine)
2) Put both OS and Trainz on it. I'm thinking this is never the best idea but given this is supposed to be 3x faster than a typical SSD?
3) Put trainz on it (Currently on a 4 year old, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD drive)
I'm content with system speeds and both drives seem to be operating fine, despite their age. I was worried that they'd just die at about the 5 year mark, but I don't typically do a lot of write cycles to them. Can you believe I still have two 750 GB HDDs from 2012 that are still working fine? (Yes, I've made backups)
System stats: running Windows 10 64 GB, ASUS z170a mobo, Intel i5 6600k CPU (overclocked 25%), 16 GB 3000 DDR RAM, nVidia GTX 1060 6GB vid card
I'm not sure where, but the fine print on my mobo says the m.2 shares PCI data lanes? so I might not get the speeds I'm hoping for, but still expecting an improvement.
Thoughts?
Mr. Gisa
My system is starting to get older and in the need for more space and faster storage, I treated myself and went with with a 1 GB NVMe m.2 PCI-E x 4 SSD (link below)
https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-blue-sn550-nvme-1tb/p/N82E16820250135
My question is: what to put on it to optimize TRS19? Three cases here:
1) Put only OS on it (Current OS is about 5 years old, using a Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD, Sata 6 Gb/s port - works fine)
2) Put both OS and Trainz on it. I'm thinking this is never the best idea but given this is supposed to be 3x faster than a typical SSD?
3) Put trainz on it (Currently on a 4 year old, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD drive)
I'm content with system speeds and both drives seem to be operating fine, despite their age. I was worried that they'd just die at about the 5 year mark, but I don't typically do a lot of write cycles to them. Can you believe I still have two 750 GB HDDs from 2012 that are still working fine? (Yes, I've made backups)
System stats: running Windows 10 64 GB, ASUS z170a mobo, Intel i5 6600k CPU (overclocked 25%), 16 GB 3000 DDR RAM, nVidia GTX 1060 6GB vid card
I'm not sure where, but the fine print on my mobo says the m.2 shares PCI data lanes? so I might not get the speeds I'm hoping for, but still expecting an improvement.
Thoughts?
Mr. Gisa
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