The short and simple answer to whether a 512GB SSD is good enough for gaming is yes. 512 GB can be considered sufficient if you want only a handful of games installed on your system simultaneously. As such, 512GB SSD capacity barely hits the mark. It would be best if you did NOT settle for anything …
The short answer to the question “is 1TB SSD enough for gaming?” is a yes. 1TB SSD is more than enough for most gaming systems. However, the storage space you need for your system is entirely subjective. In other words, the amount of storage you need, SSD or HDD, depends upon how many games or …
Those who have tried the remarkable performance gains they can achieve with an SSD can’t get enough. Hence, people often ask how to add more M.2 SSD slots or a second SSD if their motherboard only has a single M.2 slot. Fortunately, adding more M.2 slots to your SSD is pretty simple. It will require …
Simply put, there is no limitation to how many SATA drives you can connect to your PC. The answer to the question, “how many SATA drives can I connect” depends on your motherboard. The amount of SATA drives you can connect to your PC depends on how many SATA ports you have on your motherboard. …
The short answer to “can you split SATA Data cable?” is a no. SATA data cables cannot be split. In other words, you must provide a separate data cable to every SATA drive you connect to your PC. This means you need a separate SATA port on your motherboard for each drive. SATA Data cables …
If you are new to buying storage devices, excellent state drives (SSDs), then the first thing you’ll notice is that you are bombarded with technical terms such SATA, NVMe, PCIe, 2.5, M.2, HDD, SSD, and what not. Hence, buying the proper storage can get tricky for the uninitiated. I often get emails asking whether a …
SATA cables, as the name suggests, are used to connect SATA hard drives to your motherboard. SATA is one of the two primary interfaces, the other being PCIe, for adding storage drives to your PC. SATA is the more popular and commonly used interface of the two for adding storage drives. On a desktop, the …
SATA 2.5 refers to the size of the hard drive. In other words, it relates to the form factor in INCHES. So a SATA 2.5 has a disk platter that is 2.5 inches in diameter. A SATA 2.5″ hard drive is much smaller than a SATA 3.5″ hard drive. Often people need clarification that SATA …
The short answer to the question “does SATA cable provide power?” is a no. A standard SATA cable DOES NOT provide power. However, the longer answer depends on whether you are talking about the SATA DATA cable or the SATA Power cable. Almost all SATA hard drives, including HDDs and SATA SSDs, require both a …
If you have an old motherboard over a decade or so old, then it is possible that all or some of its SATA ports may conform to the SATA 2 (aka SATA 3Gb/s) version. Almost all newer SATA drives conform to the SATA 3 (aka SATA 6Gb/s) version. So when adding SATA 3 hard drive to …