I currently have two drives attached to my PC:
1 x Samsung 840 - 500GB (operating system)
1 x Western Digital 2TB drive (Documents, Photos, Games, Downloads, Storage, Temp Storage for Backing Up)
- Storage is stuff I have to sort out / don't know what to do with. The Temp Storage for Backing Up is stuff waiting to be... surprise! archived (I don't keep my archiving / backup hard drives attached to my PC all the time - should I?).
I thought there wasn't much of a difference between SSDs and NVMe drives, but it seems I am wrong, so now considering adding one to my PC.
Can I partition them like any other physical drive?
I am thinking split a 1TB in half - 500GB for Windows and programs (currently using 103/465GB used) and 500GB for games (180/579GB used). Is that a wise choice?
The question is what I then do with the 500GB SSD.
They sell on ebay for around £30 - £50, which if more towards the £50 is perhaps worth doing but wondering if there is anything else I should consider doing with it? Perhaps as the "downloads" drive and give all the others a space bump?
I have a smaller, 128GB drive at my disposal for transferring large amounts of data around so don't need to keep it for that.
Thanks for reading.
1 x Samsung 840 - 500GB (operating system)
1 x Western Digital 2TB drive (Documents, Photos, Games, Downloads, Storage, Temp Storage for Backing Up)
- Storage is stuff I have to sort out / don't know what to do with. The Temp Storage for Backing Up is stuff waiting to be... surprise! archived (I don't keep my archiving / backup hard drives attached to my PC all the time - should I?).
I thought there wasn't much of a difference between SSDs and NVMe drives, but it seems I am wrong, so now considering adding one to my PC.
Can I partition them like any other physical drive?
I am thinking split a 1TB in half - 500GB for Windows and programs (currently using 103/465GB used) and 500GB for games (180/579GB used). Is that a wise choice?
The question is what I then do with the 500GB SSD.
They sell on ebay for around £30 - £50, which if more towards the £50 is perhaps worth doing but wondering if there is anything else I should consider doing with it? Perhaps as the "downloads" drive and give all the others a space bump?
I have a smaller, 128GB drive at my disposal for transferring large amounts of data around so don't need to keep it for that.
Thanks for reading.