SSD for game folder?

I'm getting quite a few micro pauses and I think due to drive access.

Is it a good idea to copy the install across to an SSD?

I'm getting quite a few micro pauses and I think due to drive access.

Is it a good idea to copy the install across to an SSD?

What is your current specs?

SSD for game folder?

An SSD will perform better for sure.

and they often go on sale.

1TB for $99-$119 is common.

i put my whole c:\ drive (including dcs) on there and have lots and lots of room left over

how is the performance?

no i/o contention with that many drives and pci controllers?

I just upgraded my boot drive with Windows and DCS from a 1 TB EVO SSD to a M.2 NVMe 1 TB SSD and cloned it over. The EVO SSD is now the secondary drive for mass data like pictures, videos, etc.. I have two more HDs for cloning the SSD's to as backups. (5 TB in total with one 2 TB HD WD Black)

The increase in speed with the M.2 NVME was amazing over the EVO 860 SSD. Windows boots to the lock screen in under 5 seconds once past the bios pause. DCS is a very fast load to the main menu. Modules still take a little time but much faster than the standard EVO SSD. The read time is 6X faster with the NVMe M.2 than the standard SSD. With VR I want to spend a minimum amount of time watching the flashing lights as DCS modules load.

how is the performance?

no i/o contention with that many drives and pci controllers?

Well, yes and no.

I have 3x SSD, 1 x NVMe , 2x HDD and 1 DVD.

Since you simply CANNOT read data from the NVMe and write it somewhere else on that same system to another NVMe with full PCIex4 speed the bottleneck is always present due to a shortage of Express Lanes and thus, it will never congest.

I often copy VM's from my NVMe to my Raided 850 Pro's with about 1000MB/sec over 40-100GB in size. Usually, while I do that, I have nothing else "heavy" going on in the system apart from 1 or 2 idling VM's on another SSD.

If you would really need that for daily work, then yes, the Zx70 chipsets would have been a wrong purchase right away as they simply CANNOT make use of even 1 NVMe other than read data to memory since there is NO WAY out to any other device, no 2nd NVMe and no Quad-10Gbit LAN card and no Hyper-SAS card or Quad-NVMe AIC as there are simply no lanes available.

BTW, X570 has 24 lanes + 4 x USB3.1Gen2 directly wired to the CPU. In such a scenario, the Intel chipset looks r e a l bad. That is when the X570 flexes it's muscles and the Intel rig can only look and stare at how it's done properly.

You could read from 1 NVMe and write to another at FULL PCIev4 speed and have enough bandwidth left to deal with all 8 Sata drives potentially connected. Intel cannot do that.

Threadripper and X399 are even beyond what X570 can do.

Hence my cry for mo' lanes.

To simply answer your question: In daily Desktop life it is no problem but if you try to really make use of NVMe to write files ANYWHERE at full speed other than to memory, the Intel crap is LOST already with 1 NVMe, you then dont need any other drives, it already lost before the race started.

Thanks for the replies guys.

What is the best procedure for swapping the DCS folder to a new drive?

CTRL-C and then CTRL-V.....ordinary copy & paste.

You may want to edit your starting links accordingly...or better, use SkateZilla's "DCS Updater Tool" which you find via Google right here in this forum. It's very very usefull and intuitive to use.

The Crucial MX500 2.5in SATA SSD is currently one of the best price-to-performance SSDs available. I picked up a 500gb model for $60 USD yesterday for the boot drive on the new system I'm building. The 1TB model was $110. Should be able to find it for this at Microcenter, Amazon, or Newegg.

If you have a m.2 slot for an NVME SSD, the Corsair MP510 is one of the fastest and the 1.9TB model is $259 on Amazon, which is a crazy price for what you get. I also picked this one up as my primary game drive and lightroom drive.