hi,

Wanted to ask, I am planning to get a new pc next year. (I know is still early to ask, but am actually researching on my setup and understand more on current tech).

I am planning to go for the Ryzen platform (hopefully to get Zen2 arch.), and am looking to have 2x M.2 drives + 2 HDD.

Hence my question is, is it better to have one M.2 NVMe as OS and M.2 SATA as game/application, or the other way around?

actually i was in a dilemma because I am actually going to dedicate one SSD for OS only, and a second drive for game/application.

From what I have found "reading reviews etc." Using NVMe M.2 drive as OS only in normal basis (I mainly use my PC for entertainment/leisure such as browsing, watching movies, torrents, and game, not really using it for work related) doesn't really utilize its speed advantage, hence I was thinking of M.2 SATA for OS and M.2 NVMe for game/application as let say you are doing photoshop, rendering or some other I/O intensive application, it will only be useful

Hence that is the reason I am asking here, sorry if my question is not clear

Or would just 2x M.2 SATA one for OS and one for game is enough? Am thinking of getting a 256GB for OS and another 512GB for games/application but depending on the price at that time, maybe will go for both 512GB.

Currently my PC was bought back in end of Dec 2015 with the following specs:

- i7 6700
- 16GB DDR4 Corsair Value RAM
- MSI R9 390 8GB
- Lite-ON 256GB 2.5" SATA SSD
- 3TB Seagate HDD
- Superflower 750W Leadex Gold
- Gigabyte H170
- Define R5 Blackout Windowed

Reason for change:
not sure why I couldn't play other games other than Overwatch or Tales of Berseria, played Bioshock 1 Remastered, freeze crash after a few hours, played Witcher 3, freeze crashes after every hour

Thank you for the advice, was just debating whether using SATA for OS or NVMe for OS. Sorry for the rant

So you think just M.2 SATA is enough for both OS and game/applications in my usage?

Does this means that NVMe SSDs are only applicable for work-related or video editing scenarios?

okay, understood.

Thanks for the patience in explaining

I will go for 2 M.2 SATA drives then.

Do you think 256GB for OS is enough? I plan to get another one with 512GB for game/applications. Saves the hassle in case I fked up something and needed to clean install/ system restore