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WD_BLACK SN770 1TB NVMe SSD
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Bought second, not first. Most builds start with one drive, fill it, and then need somewhere to put the game library — that is the job this drive exists for. Games read far more than they write, and reading is what the SN770 does well, so a library that lives here loads exactly as it would from the boot drive. Adding a slot is also less disruptive than replacing a drive you already own and moving everything across.
Key Specs
Capacity — 1TB
Interface — PCIe 4.0 NVMe
Form factor — M.2 2280
Design — DRAM-less, low power draw
Best for — A second drive for a game library
Warranty — Full manufacturer warranty
What It Pairs With
A machine that already has a boot drive and a free M.2 slot. Windows and your software stay where they are; Steam, Epic and the rest get pointed at the new volume, and from then on new installs land there. It suits a board with two or three M.2 positions, and works equally well in a PCIe 5.0 slot if that happens to be the free one. Nothing needs configuring beyond telling the launchers where to install.
Who This Isn’t For
A build where this is the only drive and the machine does more than play games. Sustained heavy writing — video scratch files, long renders, large archives unpacked over and over — is the workload a DRAM-less design has to work hardest at, and it is worth telling us if that is the plan. At one terabyte it is also not the answer for someone with forty titles installed; if the library is that size, buy the capacity in one piece rather than in slots.
Common Questions
Do games load slower from a second drive?
No. The interface is the same and this drive reads quickly, so a game installed here behaves as it does on the boot volume. Which physical slot it sits in makes no difference to a game already installed on it.
What does DRAM-less mean in practice?
The drive borrows a small amount of system memory to hold its mapping table instead of carrying its own. It costs a little under sustained writing and close to nothing when reading, which is exactly why it suits a library drive.
Can I move installed games instead of reinstalling?
Yes. Steam has a built-in move function and the other launchers have equivalents. It takes about as long as a large file copy and saves re-downloading the lot.
Tell us what is already in the machine and we will confirm you have a free M.2 slot and that filling it will not disable a SATA port. Availability confirmed at time of quote.