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Best setup for 2 gen5 drives and gameplay recording/editting

Cirkustanz

Cirkustanz

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So I'm doing a few upgrades to my PC this week. I got a great deal on a crucial 4tb T705 nvme, and I also have a 9950x3d arriving Thursday! Wooo!

Here's my silly question:

Currently, my c: drive is on a crucial t700. I'm pretty happy with it. My usage case is mostly gaming, and I do record gameplay in OBS and occasionally make youtube videos. (mostly of an MMO I play, but on occasion I will make highlight reels of whatever actual modern game I'm playing. But I'm only recording the game footage, I don't stream or record myself at all)

The two drives (crucial t700 and t705 are pretty similar in performance) but the t705 is the better between the two.

Originally I figured I would use the t705 as my main drive, and install games + set recording to the t700 but now I'm wondering what strategy would work best. I think it might make sense to keep windows on the t700 and just install my games + set recording to the t705.

Is there an advantage to performance/stability in having OBS record to a different drive than the game is playing from?

I guess what I'm wondering is, what would be the best setup for which drive has windows/games installed, and which drive to set as the recording location for recording. Everything works great now, but I'm wondering if there's a best practice for this.
 
You prob wont notice any difference either which way you do it unless you just like to run benchmarks between them.

Certainly better to split your I/O between drives if you can, as video work can suck up decent resources, while NVMe's are plenty fast and good at simultaneous I/O most time, if you got the drives, use em.
 
Your storage is so much faster than what you're asking of it, I can't see it making a difference at all. Same goes if they were Gen3 drives. Gen5 is essentially pointless outside of enterprise, or more specifically dedicating x4 lanes of it to a single SSD.
 
MrGuvernment said:
You prob wont notice any difference either which way you do it unless you just like to run benchmarks between them.

Certainly better to split your I/O between drives if you can, as video work can suck up decent resources, while NVMe's are plenty fast and good at simultaneous I/O most time, if you got the drives, use em.
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Cool cool. For simplicity, I think I'm just going to keep windows and games installed on the t700, and will set the t705 for where my recordings are saved, and where I do all my editing on. Cheers!
 
I have 4x 2tb nvme on my motherboard. Various brands... I simply took 1 as my OS and basic apps like streamlabs obs, etc... then took the other 3 and made a stripeset no parity for 5.5tb... games go there and my stream recordings.
 
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