NVME IOPS relevence for games?

[Lord Flashheart]

Hi all.
So I am getting round to putting all my games onto a server, specifically truenas with ISCSI share.


Running games directly off that will be sluggish of course, similar to hard drive performance.
I am using and have been for a long time software called primocache.
basically it is caching software , so a faster say nvme typically as a cache for hard drive storage.

I was looking to get an NVME drive for another cache.
So it will be a 12TB sparse device on the NAS, using which NVME though. Also multiple other ISCSI shares of the same games, through deduplication. It was tricky to setup the correct config, but it worked out. Oh and a lancache server speeds things up also.


So I looked at the ADATA legend 710. IOPS are 90k/150k with max read speeds. Max read speeds are 2400MB/s. The 512GB size would have 200GB for windows and about 300GB for cache.

When a game is all cached on the NVMe dirve, it is the same as running the game off the drive.

It is cheap.
I only use windows for gaming.
I am not worried about a slightly longer boot time compared to more expensive ones.

Will there be much in the way of bad load time differences, compared to more expensive drives.

Useful & informed input appreciated.

Anything along the lines of just buy the stupidly expensive one for no good reason, or gaming from NAS gaming is scary/bad, not so much.

[_I_]

games only load whats needed

the way steam updates uses lots of iops, download, unpack, copy at the same time on the drive

[Lord Flashheart]

Publicado originalmente por _I_:

games only load whats needed

the way steam updates uses lots of iops, download, unpack, copy at the same time on the drive

So benchmarks anywhere?
Actual measurements maybe made good tech youtuber or so?
Game updates will be written to the nvme first, then in the background a bit slower to the NAS.
So game updates may be related to a faster NVME drive.
So do you have any measurable info on that?

[_I_]

steam tries to do it on the same drive

use steam to move the game back to local drive then update and move back to nas

[Lord Flashheart]

Publicado originalmente por _I_:

steam tries to do it on the same drive

use steam to move the game back to local drive then update and move back to nas

Why do that when it i do not need to, where it is all moved around automatically?