How to easily tell if Your SSD disk is NVME from Windows level

[Jack Greedy]

Well to avoid stutters like in example in Dead Space remake, it maybe be helpful to install newest DOOM on NVME SSD drive like recommended.
To tell if Your SSD disk is older SATA or newer NVME protocol just follow this in Windows:

1. Device Manager in Windows 11:
Open Device Manager (right-click Start button, select Device Manager).
Expand "Disk drives".
Double-click the drive you want to check.
Go to the "Details" tab.
Select "Hardware Ids" from the Property drop-down.
Check the Value list for "NVMe" name - if it is visible there , congrats You have NVME drive.

This way i found that i have 2 x 2TB NVME drives and 3x1TB SATA SSD drives.

[DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025]

cool now do a tutorial for linux and bazzite users

[Jack Greedy]

Hey Dinoman, i don't know these system at all, im sorry.

[DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025]

Originally posted by Jack Greedy:

Hey Dinoman, i don't know these system at all, im sorry.

its ok bby i forgive you also just letting you know Among Us 3D just released yesterday on steam for a cheap price

[GAVade™]

Dead Space remake port IS broken, EVERYONE has traversal stutters on PC....

[Jack Greedy]

Well it's not, not everyone .

[Vi]

Originally posted by DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025:

cool now do a tutorial for linux and bazzite users

Easy solution is to just run 'lsblk' or 'lsblk -o NAME,LABEL,MODEL,MOUNTPOINT' in terminal and see if any nvme devices are listed such as:
nvme0n1

[DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025]

Originally posted by Vi:

Originally posted by DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025:

cool now do a tutorial for linux and bazzite users

Easy solution is to just run 'lsblk' in terminal and see if any nvme devices are listed such as:
nvme0n1

i was gonna say the same thing

[NairBoT]

Originally posted by Jack Greedy:

Well to avoid stutters like in example in Dead Space remake, it maybe be helpful to install newest DOOM on NVME SSD drive like recommended.

Is that really how it will go for people without a NVME SSD? maybe some stutters
The store page says NVME required as minimum and recommended.
Furthermore, it might even mean DirectStorage which requires NVME.

[Dexter Morgan]

Originally posted by Jack Greedy:

Well to avoid stutters like in example in Dead Space remake, it maybe be helpful to install newest DOOM on NVME SSD drive like recommended.
To tell if Your SSD disk is older SATA or newer NVME protocol just follow this in Windows:

1. Device Manager in Windows 11:
Open Device Manager (right-click Start button, select Device Manager).
Expand "Disk drives".
Double-click the drive you want to check.
Go to the "Details" tab.
Select "Hardware Ids" from the Property drop-down.
Check the Value list for "NVMe" name - if it is visible there , congrats You have NVME drive.

This way i found that i have 2 x 2TB NVME drives and 3x1TB SATA SSD drives.

Or just look at the model name of your drives. You just paste that into Google and see for yourself. Plus, Task Manger tells you if your drives are Hard Disk Drives, Solid State Drives, Solid State Drive m.2 or Solid State Drive NVME.

[Dexter Morgan]

Originally posted by NairBoT:

Originally posted by Jack Greedy:

Well to avoid stutters like in example in Dead Space remake, it maybe be helpful to install newest DOOM on NVME SSD drive like recommended.

Is that really how it will go for people without a NVME SSD? maybe some stutters
The store page says NVME required as minimum and recommended.
Furthermore, it might even mean DirectStorage which requires NVME.

Whenever you see NVME required, it most definitely means the game relies on direct storage. Bethesda is an XBOX games publisher, ID Software makes XBOX games, and XBOX is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft developed direct storage as a way for the GPU to do CPU sided decompression, as CPUs are simply to slow to send the data fast enough to the GPU, to render, in time to be able to take advantage of the reading speeds of an NVME drive. I believe they went with this because the game will be very CPU heavy, and direct storage takes a lot of load off from the CPU's threads. Also, this means you can only play this game on Windows 10 and 11, although, keep in mind Windows 10 is missing the NVME IO optimizations that 11 has. RIP to Linux distro users.

[Dexter Morgan]

Originally posted by DINOMAN1337YT TRUMP2025:

cool now do a tutorial for linux and bazzite users

You can't play this on Linux. Direct Storage is a Windows feature. On Linux, NVMEs are useless for gaming because even if you have a 14900k, it's too slow to decompress data fast enough so the GPU can render everything in time, to take advantage of NVME reading speeds. I'm sorry for you, mate...

[ChubbiChibbai]

How do you tell what speed your NVME drive is from windows? And how much does that matter.

In looking to upgrade the capacity of my drives I noticed there are cheaper models from lesser known brands. The same space for less money. But the speeds are also lower.

Wo xering of there are cheaper drives that will basically suck. Or does it not matter too much.

[DESTARD]

I have 9 SSDs 25.5 TB and I still don't have room have ALL my games backed up in case a folder gets corrupted I won't have to Downloads 4 TB in games

[ChubbiChibbai]

Originally posted by DESTARD:

I have 9 SSDs 25.5 TB and I still don't have room have ALL my games backed up in case a folder gets corrupted I won't have to Downloads 4 TB in games

They can't all be NVME though. Surely you don't have enough slots for that many NVME drives? If so what motherboard do you have.

[DESTARD]

I have all 4 Sata slots on MB full and x5 Nvme cards plus a PCIE adapter with one 2TB SSD. I still don't have enough space I have about 80 games installed on Steam Epic UBI and GOG.