Win 10 on a 32G M2 SSD

Soulliight

Honorable
Apr 6, 2017
41
0
10,530
Hey guys and thanks in advance for taking the time to look at me post.
So I wanted to install ONLY Win 10 on this 32G M2 SSD for really fast booting. I also have a 240G SSD and a 500G HDD. Just wanted to make sure I wont come into any issues.
Thanks!
 
Solution
It's an interesting idea for an Optane drive but too much trouble to be worth it. Cache drives are only really useful for accelerating a HDD as even a SATA SSD is not noticeably slower without the extra cache drive.

Last time these cache drives were popular I got a 32GB SLC drive and now it can barely hold a full XP installation even with the drive compressed! So I wouldn't even try it with Windows 7-10.
If you are literally ONLY installing windows 10 to the drive then it would be ok, but should still run CCleaner often.
You will want to keep the drive at no more then 75% capacity otherwise the performance is going to greatly suffer.

Also would quesiton the performance of any 32gb M2 SSD drive
 
It's an interesting idea for an Optane drive but too much trouble to be worth it. Cache drives are only really useful for accelerating a HDD as even a SATA SSD is not noticeably slower without the extra cache drive.

Last time these cache drives were popular I got a 32GB SLC drive and now it can barely hold a full XP installation even with the drive compressed! So I wouldn't even try it with Windows 7-10.
 
Solution


I ended up install windows on my 240G SSD as the boot time was 2 seconds slower (5 seconds total) than the M2