Question Which is best to use with a 7200rpm 1tb HDD?

Bessertec · Thursday at 6:03 PM

I have a PC running on a 7200 rpm 1tb HDD and has become slooow.

I want it to become faster for the office software I use everyday (no gaming).

The motherboard has a M.2 PCIe 3.0 socket available.

What arrangement would best fit my needs?

Adding an Optane 16gb module, keeping the actual HDD.
Adding a NVMe SSD, keeping the actual HDD.

Thanks in advance!

USAFRet · Thursday at 6:05 PM

#2
OS and applications (and whatever else fits) go on the SSD.

What is your budget for this drive?

Bob.B · Thursday at 6:13 PM

Bessertec said:
I have a PC running on a 7200 rpm 1tb HDD and has become slooow.

I want it to become faster for the office software I use everyday (no gaming).

The motherboard has a M.2 PCIe 3.0 socket available.

What arrangement would best fit my needs?

Adding an Optane 16gb module, keeping the actual HDD.

Adding a NVMe SSD, keeping the actual HDD.

Thanks in advance!

Consider swapping the hdd with a 2.5 ssd then use the hdd for backups.

Bessertec · Thursday at 6:14 PM

USAFRet said:
#2
OS and applications (and whatever else fits) go on the SSD.

What is your budget for this drive?

Around $50.00 usd

USAFRet · Thursday at 6:17 PM

Bessertec said:
Around $50.00 usd

Well...thats not a lot of headroom.

But, Optane it pretty much a dead technology.

What motherboard?
Which OS?

Bessertec · Thursday at 7:36 PM

USAFRet said:
Well...thats not a lot of headroom.

But, Optane it pretty much a dead technology.

What motherboard?
Which OS?

What would you suggest?

Didn't know optane is almost out ... that explains why there arent much options available in amazon.

I'm running windows 11 in a Lenovo AIO 520-24ICB.

USAFRet · Thursday at 7:41 PM

Bessertec said:
What would you suggest?

Didn't know optane is almost out ... that explains why there arent much options available in amazon.

I'm running windows 11 in a Lenovo AIO 520-24ICB.

With a $50 budget, this:
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Plus-PCIe-NAND-5000MB/dp/B0B25NXWC7

(yes, I know it is $10 over)

Bessertec · Thursday at 8:15 PM

USAFRet said:
With a $50 budget, this:
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(yes, I know it is $10 over)

I think I could handle $10bucks.

BTW. Would it matter being a SSD Gen 4 and a Gen 3 Socket?

USAFRet · Thursday at 8:16 PM

Bessertec said:
I think I could handle $10bucks.

BTW. Would it matter being a SSD Gen 4 and a Gen 3 Socket?

It will run at Gen 3 speed, but otherwise, no problem.

And given a single NVMe drive in the system, you'd never know the difference.

rcald2000 · Saturday at 8:48 AM

An alternative would be the WD SN5000. Their drives offer the option of downloading a license backed copy of Acronis, in order to clone your hard drive over. In addition it has a drive endurance of almost three times that of the P3 Plus (600 TBW vs 220 TBW). That's completely overkill for a business machine, but it may come in handy years from now, if you ever migrate the storage to a gaming rig. The SSD Dashboard software is very good as well. Just a thought.

Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - PCIe Gen 4.0, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS100T4B0E
$59.99

Amazon.com

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-blue-sn5000-nvme/p/N82E16820250268

Under heading "Manual Clone Steps", <click> Acronis True Image for Western Digital Windows
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/14926

Western Digital SSD Dashboard (aka toolbox)
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/31759

** reviews **
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/wd-sn5000-4tb-ssd-review