Hi,
I’m building a Powerful 4090 PC to use Unreal Engine 5 and other apps such as After Effects, Sony Vegas Pro, Blender , 3D Rendering etc
For what I need to do, how much TB of storage is needed do you think?
I’m currently looking at 6TB
Crucial P3 Plus 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Western Digital Black SN770 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Please let me know if these SSDs are good, and if the total amount (6TB) is good enough for what I need to do.
6TB is good - no matter how much space you have, you will fill it - just happens that way - maybe have a slower 4TB SSD in there as well?
This doesn’t get the best reviews - it’s not as performant as more modern NVME SSDs.
Even with just Unreal, you will just-want for storage. Image-authoring apps will eat your space with large-textures, so you, in particular will want for space with all the other stuff you are working with. Epic and other services tend to chuck free-stuff at you over time so you’ll be grabbing all that too…
I’ve always gone Samsung for the M.2 but have had good experiences with anything Crucial.
As noted WesternDigital can be a crap-shoot, on any of their devices, but they do tend to have the larger/better devices. For raw storage, I have a platter-drive since it’s more about capacity vs performance.
Here is there 4TB drive, not M2 tho: https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E4T0B-AM/dp/B08QBL36GF/ref=sr_1_6?crid=1VDGDEMFCX21V&keywords=samsung%2Bm2%2B4tb&qid=1689794326&s=electronics&sprefix=samsung%2Bm2%2B4tb%2Celectronics%2C79&sr=1-6&th=1
Yeah I like the Samsung EVO’s too…
So do you recommend the Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive?
How much of a difference does it make?
I use Samsung because they (for my experience) seem reliable and have a good performance/capacity ratio per-dollar. A 2TB, zippy M2 for 100bucks isn’t a bad deal IMHO, plus reliability (based on volume of feedback).
Your call of course. I go bang-for-buck with a chaser of reliability.
Ah I see
It’s just that the recommended Samsung 980 Pro is £45 more than the WD
I was wondering if I could just save money and practically get the same result
I’d pay that extra for peace of mind…
Thank you both
and how would you recommend I organise my work since this will be my first ever PC?
Do I put my Unreal Engine work on the Samsung since it’s fast? and other things, such as games on the Crucial 4TB?
You put your OS and your app-installs on the system-disk (C:, the M2, the Fast one).
Put your bulk storage on your larger, slower drive.
You will have a 2TB drive for your system disk so surely some projects can/will reside there, but generally if it’s not something you execute, it sits on slower/storage.
Put games on your system-drive, so they perform better since they are one of the most real-time apps you will encounter. As tech tends to streaming-assets, disk I/O speeds express themselves more. Hence the 980 being 2x as fast, will serve you well.
Thanks to both of you! Frenetic and RecourseDesign I appreciate both of your help
Np, and good luck!
Please continue to share whatever you create!
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