im doing a new build for gaming that will be a 10900k, rtx3070, 32gb ram, and a 2tb sn550 western digital drive. my question is, will the sn550 be a big bottleneck to my system for gaming or any medium type task duties>? thanks
My first inclination is to ask how the hell did you find an RTX 3070 to buy for a sane price or just to be available at any price during these times? I have a less ambitious pc-building project underway for this year, and I have to use a spare GTX-970 for a dGPU. If I could merely find an RTX 2070 -- at all -- for a sane price if the card is even available, I'd jump at the chance. But for the modest scope of my project, the 970 will do for now.
How old is the technology of the PC you're replacing? Oh -- OK -- I looked up the WD NVME 2TB of which you speak. You're concerned about it being a PCIE v.3.0 drive, then? You think that you would have almost double the throughput with a PCIE v.4.0 NVME?
Personally, I just don't think that the 2,600 MB/s sequential read spec is going to make a noticeable "bottleneck". I've been told myself that I should upgrade my gen-7 chipset and motherboard for a processor more modest than your choice, and I would have all that PCIE v.4.0 NVME wonderfulness with a Samsung 980 or something comparable if it even exists at the moment.
I'm not keeping up with the latest and greatest games. If my motherboard provided PCIE v.4.0 bandwidth, I could imagine putting the 2TB gen-3 WD NVME in there, and then replacing it later. But since the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVME is $350 and the 1TB 980 Pro is $150, I can't see why you wouldn't just spring for the 1TB 980 Pro at $80 below the SN550 2TB price-point, or just spend the $100 more on the 2TB Samsung 980 Pro.
What do you need to put on this NVME drive that requires a full 2TB? How is 1TB inadequate? See -- for me -- I mix old-tech with new tech. I have a 1TB NVME drive, with an SATA SSD with two HDD spinners which cache to a 256 GB NVME drive. IF I'm limited by my chipset and processor generation, I don't feel it. You aren't under the constraints with which I comfortably live with my PC. But don't you have a collection of files -- media and so forth -- that can be put on slower media without in any way being limited by the slower media? So why have a 2TB boot drive to store those files as well as the OS and programs? Or, if you're going to do that, why not anticipate the future and spend the extra Franklin on the 2TB 980 Pro?
I don't see a need for myself to have an NVME with 7,000 MB/s throughput right now, but my needs aren't the same as those of others. Despite my perceptions of needs, I still think I've laid out a set of reasonable options for you, or what might make one option palatable, or another option better.
But we're basically talking about an extra $100 for the full 2TB drive in the NVME PCIE v.4.0 flavor and bandwidth. Is this a budget and accounting problem? Well, there's the 1TB option, saving you $80 over the PCIE v.3.0 WD NVME.