Corsair Force MP500 128GB or SAMSUNG 960 EVO 500GB for operating system?

[rkusma13]

I have both of these M.2 drives
Corsair Force: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820236156
Samsung 960 Evo: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147594

My motherboard appears to support both of these M.2 drives running at once.
Motherboard MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130973

I'm wondering which one I should have running the Operating System and other small programs. I read that it is best to use the faster m.2 drive to run the operating system. In this case, the Samsung is the faster drive by about 30% according to the userbenchmark comparison. As you can see though, my Samsung drive is significantly larger than my Corsair drive, so I would like it to be used to hold games and other large files like that.
Is it best to have the Corsair drive be dedicated to operating system even though it is a little bit slower so that the Samsung drive can be used only for games (keeping both drives dedicated to certain tasks)?
Or would it be best to put both the operating system and games on the Samsung drive and leave the Corsair drive with whatever else (not caring about dedicated drives)?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

SAMSUNG 960 EVO 500GB for the OS , super fast.

 

[rkusma13]

SAMSUNG 960 EVO 500GB for the OS , super fast.

So... Use the Samsung for both my operating system and games and dont worry about dedicating any drives to certain tasks?

 

[USAFRet]

I would never recommend a 128BG for the OS drive.

You want the OS, and all your applications as well on a drive. A 128GB will fill up faster than you think.

Given those two drives...
500GB for the OS and applications. Maybe a game or two.
128GB for your doc/music/etc, and also a game or two.


For Steam games, you can have them live on multiple drives. Like this:

Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

 

[rkusma13]

I would never recommend a 128BG for the OS drive.

You want the OS, and all your applications as well on a drive. A 128GB will fill up faster than you think.

Given those two drives...
500GB for the OS and applications. Maybe a game or two.
128GB for your doc/music/etc, and also a game or two.


For Steam games, you can have them live on multiple drives. Like this:

Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

Thanks for the response! So putting most of the things I use on the Samsung along with the OS and games and then just using the Corsair as a bit of extra space would be the way to go.