-
Don’t waste your time with SATA, definitely not with spinning rust.
You don’t need expensive branded PCIe to M.2 risers. Check to see if your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation (splitting a single physical x8/x16 slot into several x4). If so, grab a cheap Gen4 riser off AliX/Amazon/EBay/wherever and stick 2x 4TB drives in there. What’s your mobo model?
I really wouldn’t skimp on the drives themselves though; I can’t beat this drum enough. Cheap consumer drives are a waste of time for your use case: tiny amounts (or none at all) of write cache, totally hobbling write speeds after the first few gigs. Terrible write endurance ratings meaning the drive will become toast much sooner. No power loss protection, so big chance of data corruption if your machine suddenly loses power.
Prosumer/datacentre grade drives aren’t that much more expensive than consumer shite per TB.
ectoplasmosis-
This one:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10#kfIs that Corsair a cheap consumer drive? Doesn't feel like it at nearly a grand. But perhaps the 8TB premium inflates it.
No power loss protection, so big chance of data corruption if your machine suddenly loses power.
That's a concern - I've had a lot of crashes recently - whole computer shuts down and won't reboot unless I disconnect from power for 30 odd sec. Only happens playing PUBG. Haven't been able to diagnose. But certainly wouldn't want contents vanishing..
-
Prosumer/datacentre grade drives aren’t that much more expensive than consumer shite per TB.
I wonder if power loss was what killed my m.2?
"I use Samsung PM9A3 datacentre drives in our storage servers; good bang for buck (3.84TB for £400). Make sure you use U.2 formfactor drives instead of M.2 though: better performance and cooling."
Something to bear in mind when I replace/rebuild the desktop PC I guess...
CYOA
hippy
I want to stick 8TB of fast storage in my computer for a project - don't want to be tied to a RAID or multiple 4TB externals for it (working with 7TB data).
I'm still using a B550D with a 3090 wd black sn850 4tb so my pcie lanes are presumably clogged-ish.
I don't need to get max max max speed from an nvme but if I were to stick this in:
https://www.awd-it.co.uk/components/solid-state-drives-ssd/gen4/corsair-mp600-pro-nh-8tb-ssd-gen-4-nvme-m-2-solid-state-drive-cssd-f8000gbmp600pnh.html
...would I be able to edit braw happily/snappily (assuming I keep the current 4TB for OS and software)? Where and how much bottleneck are we talking?
Other cheaper alternatives? I really don't want spinning drives (from listening to my on-deaths-door g-tech studio raid which makes such a racket) so maybe a SATA SSD?
Ideally something I can use easily in a future build (I'll be likely looking at threadripper once they get a decent motherboard with more than 1 USB-C/4/3/x2/TB3 blah connection).
Have looked at something like a Sonnet M2 card and sticking a bunch of nvmes in for ALL the internal speedy storage. But I've got clients not paying out the wazoo so am trying to be relatively thrifty until the invoices start getting paid.