How much difference will installing the OS on a SATA SSD or M.2 SSD make?

[lockstercarbz]

I'm going to be buying one SSD for my new PC now - either a 250GB WD Black NVME SSD v2 (3000MB/s Read, 1600MB/s Write) or a Crucial MX500 500GB (560MB/s Read, 510MB/s Write) and another SSD later. Which should I buy first (bearing in mind that 500GB would be useful to begin with)? Will boot time be greatly affected between either of these options?

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm going to be buying one SSD for my new PC now - either a 250GB WD Black NVME SSD v2 (3000MB/s Read, 1600MB/s Write) or a Crucial MX500 500GB (560MB/s Read, 510MB/s Write) and another SSD later. Which should I buy first (bearing in mind that 500GB would be useful to begin with)? Will boot time be greatly affected between either of these options?

Thanks a lot for your help.

"boot time" is the least of the benefits you get with an SSD vs HDD. Either SATA or NVMe SSD.

Assume the HDD takes 1 minute to boot up.
SATA SSD ~25 secs
NVMe SSD ~18 secs.

So what.
They are both way faster than the HDD.

The difference between the NVMe and SATA SSD is seen elsewhere.

What will you use this system for?
Overall parts list?
OS?

 

[Hellfire13]

4-5sec difference max for boot time... http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Black-NVMe-PCIe-M2-512GB-vs-Crucial-MX500-500GB/m251339vsm418385
Both are good choices, you cant loose with either.

 

[lockstercarbz]

Thanks for your answer, here's some more info:

Ryzen 5 2600 CPU
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (7200RPM, 6GB/s, 64mb cache)
GTX 1060 6GB GPU
ASUS ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard

This system will be used for gaming at 1080p and for rendering/modelling in Maya/Unreal Engine 4

OS will be Windows 10

If you need any more information, just say

 

[USAFRet]

Whichever one you want the OS on...buy that one first.

For your secondary use (Maya/Unreal), the NVMe will probably be beneficial.
So do that one first.

However...just a 250GB will be pretty slim until you add other drives.

 

[Hellfire13]

You should get 500gb NVME and reserve a partition of 100gb for OS and apps. The rest you can use for your active data of regular use. The NVME should benefit you in productivity, quite a bit.