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Limp Gawd
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- Jul 10, 2007
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I'm in the early stages of researching a new build. My last build, in 2012, used a 512 GB SSD and a platter HDD for storage. However, this M.2, NVME stuff is a bit new to me. I'm in the process of reading and learning about it. Sounds pretty nifty so far.
My question is that I've been looking at some sample builds on PCPartpicker and I see alot of folks with gaming builds that use a 500 GB M.2 NVME, a 512 GB SSD or two, AND a platter HDD. Why might someone do this? What uses might that setup have? That would be like 3 different performance tiers of drives correct? So if the 500 GB M.2 was the OS/Games drive, and the platter HDD was big storage...what would you use the 512 GB SSD for? I've seen that type of setup in a whole bunch of these builds now so I just wanted to try and understand how and why they might be doing that.
My question is that I've been looking at some sample builds on PCPartpicker and I see alot of folks with gaming builds that use a 500 GB M.2 NVME, a 512 GB SSD or two, AND a platter HDD. Why might someone do this? What uses might that setup have? That would be like 3 different performance tiers of drives correct? So if the 500 GB M.2 was the OS/Games drive, and the platter HDD was big storage...what would you use the 512 GB SSD for? I've seen that type of setup in a whole bunch of these builds now so I just wanted to try and understand how and why they might be doing that.