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The PCI-E 4 NVMe SSD question again...

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Yup, I'm leaning towards the SN850X for that very reason @JD - the price difference is pretty small relatively speaking. I'd be happy with the SN770 for sure, but for that small a difference why not go for the extra performance headroom for someday?
 
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How does this look for my SN850X? Expected? I haven't done much SSD testing.
This is CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4, set for NVMe SSD and Peak Performance profile.

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It be nice if games kept their files all under their own folder like the old days. Playing around with the Star Citizen install on the new drive, and it loads a lot faster, but the game still puts its shader folder in the AppData folder structure that is by default on the Windows installation drive with the Users folder. So any aspects the game needs that are on the new drive will get the new drive speed but whenever it needs to hit that AppData content it'll be using the slower drive.

I guess short of cloning the current C drive onto the new drive, I could move the AppData folder. There's a few steps to that though as I understand. It'd likely be nice to have the OS running off the new drive too though I suppose... sigh... :)
 

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Rather than move the whole AppData folder, you could probably do a symbolic link for just the Star Citizen folder. Also you could just buy another SN850X :cool:
 

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Rather than move the whole AppData folder, you could probably do a symbolic link for just the Star Citizen folder. Also you could just buy another SN850X :cool:
Are you helping??!! :D

Yes true, a symbolic link at any level would likely work, but other games will I'm sure dump some of their stuff there too. There's lots in that folder structure.
 

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I keep my Appdata folder on a second drive. Well the entire Users folder. On a clean install it only takes a couple minutes to setup.
Just curious what method you use to move the folder @lowfat ? I've found instructions for the symbolic link method mentioned by JD. Do you do it that way?
 
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