Brent Hale 
Leave enough room for your SSD to work comfortably and for your largest games to finish updating. For a typical gaming SSD, keeping roughly 10–20% of the usable capacity free is a sensible starting point. …
Separate Windows and game drives can make storage easier to manage, but they are not an automatic performance upgrade. You can install Windows and your games on the same SSD without compromising a well-configured gaming …
PCIe 5.0 SSDs deliver enormous transfer speeds. Whether those speeds improve your gaming PC is a different question. A PCIe 5.0 SSD is worth considering for a gaming PC when its price is close to …
An M.2 upgrade can change your GPU’s PCIe connection. Here is how to tell whether it will happen on your motherboard. Adding an M.2 SSD can reduce the number of PCIe lanes available to a …
Choose the right M.2 slot without accidentally limiting your SSD, graphics card, or other expansion hardware. The best M.2 slot for a gaming SSD is usually the CPU-connected slot intended for the primary drive. On …