Should i partition Samsung 960 pro 500gb or buy 3 separate SSD?

[akosididot]

Hi guys i do video edit most of the time and some photoshop, 4k and cad / 3d rendering, reason why i need 3 ssd is because

first of all to be organized
2) for OS and APPS - 120gb
3) for current project and source files - 256gb
4) for media / scratch / cache disk - 60gb

now i have this cheap offer of samsung 960 pro 500gb from a cousin who want to sell me his extra NVMe for cheap and since its 500gb i can easily partition it to my desired amount of space with extra GB for overprovisioning (not sure whats overprovisioning, i just read it somewhere that having an unused space on ssd is good lol pls correct me if this is true)

should i grab the NVMe and partition it or just buy cheaper SSD, performance wise. Im just worried that performance will affect when its partitioned or i dont know.. perhaps someone can enlighten me?

also i have this MIRROR-raid wd red 2x2Tb that server as my internal backup so my 256 gb project disk is sync on this raid drive and then all finish products will be transfered on this drive which is also backed up by my 2tb portable SSD drive.

Thanks guys hoping for a reasonable answer im really new with this SSD

 

[CountMike]

Yes, there should be no problem, you don't have to threat SSD drives, including M.2 any different than any HDD. Even as they work differently deep down, on logical level they behave same way. That is for compatibility with OS.

 

[USAFRet]

first of all to be organized
2) for OS and APPS - 120gb
3) for current project and source files - 256gb
4) for media / scratch / cache disk - 60gb

Not even.
When you find the 120GB OS partition too small, then what?

I would leave it as one partition. At most, a small 50GB partition for dedicated cache location.

 

[neiler0847]

I can't see how partitioning the drive is going to offer any benefit.

 

[CountMike]

With HDDs one of benefits was slight performance increase because of "Short-stroking". With SSDs. main benefit would be separating data from OS so in case of having to repair or reinstall OS you don't loose data (which should be backed up anyway).

 

[neiler0847]

With HDDs one of benefits was slight performance increase because of "Short-stroking". With SSDs. main benefit would be separating data from OS so in case of having to repair or reinstall OS you don't loose data (which should be backed up anyway).

The problem with partitioning is the inefficient use of space. You need to be able to accurately predict the right sizes for the partitions and maintain free space on all of them. With SSDs you also shorten their lifespan if they are close to capacity (because they can't internally manage the uniform use of the storage media).

In this particular case I would go with two SSDs, one for the OS and Apps, and one for the other stuff. And if your cousin is truly offering a decent deal for a 960 Pro NVMe drive well, of course you have to snap it up.

My primary machine has a Plextor 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD for the OS and a WD Blue 500GB M.2 drive for data. No Sata cables required!

 

[RealBeast]

Agree with USAFRet, and just want to add that an Adobe scratch disk on the same disk will not give you the performance improvement of a distinct SSD used for that purpose. Three partitions is not even close to the same as three SSDs.