Two questions. One for me and another for a friend.
Is there any benefit having the OS on a smaller separate drive these days?
Me. I purchased a a 2TB M2 SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD. I also have an older 500GB M2 SAMSUNG 980 SSD that I intended to put in a laptop but never got to it.
I'm setting up a new gaming system based on a 9900K and 3060ti. Is there any benefit putting the OS and apps and a few games on the 500Gb 980? Or should I use that for something else and just put the OS and everything I regularly use on the 2TB. My thought is for the latter, that the 500GB would be redundant. And if it doesn't really help this system, I can use it in a different, less privileged build. Heck, I also have 4TB and 2 TB 7200 HDDs for storage and anything else I need.
My friend: He has W10 OS running on a 120GB SSD. 500GB HDD for older games. He also has two 1 TB SSDs for storage and working with music. I told him he needs to dump the 120 and put his OS on one of the two 1TB SSDs, and use it for the OS, apps, some games, his music projects, everything. He will still have the 2nd 1TB SSD, and he can add a 2TB HDD for storage additional storage later.
Thanks.
Is there any benefit having the OS on a smaller separate drive these days?
Me. I purchased a a 2TB M2 SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD. I also have an older 500GB M2 SAMSUNG 980 SSD that I intended to put in a laptop but never got to it.
I'm setting up a new gaming system based on a 9900K and 3060ti. Is there any benefit putting the OS and apps and a few games on the 500Gb 980? Or should I use that for something else and just put the OS and everything I regularly use on the 2TB. My thought is for the latter, that the 500GB would be redundant. And if it doesn't really help this system, I can use it in a different, less privileged build. Heck, I also have 4TB and 2 TB 7200 HDDs for storage and anything else I need.
My friend: He has W10 OS running on a 120GB SSD. 500GB HDD for older games. He also has two 1 TB SSDs for storage and working with music. I told him he needs to dump the 120 and put his OS on one of the two 1TB SSDs, and use it for the OS, apps, some games, his music projects, everything. He will still have the 2nd 1TB SSD, and he can add a 2TB HDD for storage additional storage later.
Thanks.