New Laptop: Should I keep my OS on my SSD

[PowerUp_]

I just bought a new DELL laptop and I checked to see where my OS is installed and it's in my 128GB SSD. I also have a 1TB HDD which could hold my OS.

As I will be using this laptop for a bit of gaming as well as while I'm at university, should I keep the OS where it is?

I know the SSD is small and could only hold a small amount of games, but I was thinking about transferring the OS to the HDD, and using the SSD for the games I will regularly play, but wanted to know how much of a hassle this will be, and how much slower my boot up will be because of the OS being on the HDD.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Many thanks

 

[Peter Martin]

Don’t transfer anything you don’t want to do this. Does the new Dell laptop come with its own license for windows 10? If so just restart reinstalling your games on the SSD as your storage drive for your games

You can copy your product key and apply it to your new Dell laptop. Your old SSD has a version of windows that’s made for a different laptop it’s not going to work you would need to reinstall windows on it

 

[USAFRet]

I just bought a new DELL laptop and I checked to see where my OS is installed and it's in my 128GB SSD. I also have a 1TB HDD which could hold my OS.

As I will be using this laptop for a bit of gaming as well as while I'm at university, should I keep the OS where it is?

I know the SSD is small and could only hold a small amount of games, but I was thinking about transferring the OS to the HDD, and using the SSD for the games I will regularly play, but wanted to know how much of a hassle this will be, and how much slower my boot up will be because of the OS being on the HDD.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Many thanks

No.
Leave it on the SSD. Moving it to the HDD would be a major downgrade.

 

[PowerUp_]

Cheers dude, that was essentially what I was looking for 😉

 

[jsmithepa]

Absolutely, positively NO. This would be a faux pas of gigantic proportion the light of which the world has never seen Gams on SSD only improves load time, no improvement during game play or frame rate.