Combine NVME drives?

bobkn · 28 Feb 2022

There are also PCI-E add-on cards that support multiple NVME M.2 cards in RAID.

At some point, it might make sense to upgrade the motherboard rather than trying aftermarket foo-foos.

munk1955 · 01 Mar 2022

pparks1 said:

I have NVMe drives, but I also added a 2TB standard SATA SSD to my machine to house games. Games are huge and chew up space. But honestly, there isn't hardly any noticeable difference between the game loading from my NVMe or my SSD. Considering my NVME reads at 7,000MB/sec and my SATA SSD is about 530MB/sec...you would expect to see a pretty significant difference, but I assure you that it's practically identical.

I hear you pparks1 I have 4 home built desktop pc's and 3 are NVMe and one is a Crucial MX500 500gb 2.5 SSD and I can't tell any difference in speed from my view point.....That Crucial MX500 absolutely rocks.

pparks1 · 01 Mar 2022

munk1955 said:

I hear you pparks1 I have 4 home built desktop pc's and 3 are NVMe and one is a Crucial MX500 500gb 2.5 SSD and I can't tell any difference in speed from my view point.....That Crucial MX500 absolutely rocks.

Truth.

I mean, I can benchmark my SN850 and see huge numbers. And I can copy a file from C:\folder1 to C:\folder2 and it's fast. I don't have a second NVMe drive at present, so I cannot go drive to drive...but obviously if I spent a lot of my day shuffling around huge files it would be a big difference.

But in day to day work, it's the fractional milisecond random access time that makes the biggest difference between a HDD and an SSD. You get that benefit with any SSD.