Question Partitioning an M.2 NVMe SSD for different OS ?

[randombln]

I have a new 1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD and a 500GB SATAIII 2.5" SSD. I'm using Windows only for gaming and was going to install it on the NVMe SSD to benefit from shorter loading times in games. But honestly I don't play that much. Most of the time I use Linux for office related stuff, programming and recently I started training neural networks for fun.

So I was wondering if I would benefit much from installing Linux on the NVMe too or if I should keep it simple and put it on the SATAIII SSD? I think I do not gain much from more free space on the 1TB NVMe, because I think I will not use more than 500GB for games.

If it matters, I'm using Pytorch with batch sizes of 64, without much pipeline optimization yet, and working with no data heavy training sets right now. But I plan to train nets on satalite images, which can get quite large, e.g. ~700mb before cropping.

 

[CountMike]

I have a new 1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD and a 500GB SATAIII 2.5" SSD. I'm using Windows only for gaming and was going to install it on the NVMe SSD to benefit from shorter loading times in games. But honestly I don't play that much. Most of the time I use Linux for office related stuff, programming and recently I started training neural networks for fun.

So I was wondering if I would benefit much from installing Linux on the NVMe too or if I should keep it simple and put it on the SATAIII SSD? I think I do not gain much from more free space on the 1TB NVMe, because I think I will not use more than 500GB for games.

If it matters, I'm using Pytorch with batch sizes of 64, without much pipeline optimization yet, and working with no data heavy training sets right now. But I plan to train nets on satalite images, which can get quite large, e.g. ~700mb before cropping.

Dual booting specially so different OSs on same disk was always questionable. Much better than that is to keep them on separate disks, just make sure you remove or disable one while installing other OS.

 

[randombln]

Why is that questionable?

 

[CountMike]

Why is that questionable?

Because they both have to share same BOOT space and any change in one OS could stop the other from booting. Most of the time Windows and Linux use different file system as well as partitioning. By the time you install both on you will quickly run out of usable space for each one. 500GB in programs/games plus about 120 GB. absolute minimum required for windows 10/11 to run properly will already take more than half of 1 TB drive, likely 2/3. and that's not accounting storage.