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| Thread ID: 147632 | 2019-02-13 21:18:00 | M.2 NVMe SSD and / or V-NAND SSD..best set up use | kiotimak (17660) | Press F1 |
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| 1458187 | 2019-02-13 21:18:00 | Hi. A couple questions about using M.2 NVMe SSD and a V-NAND SSD. I am putting together the parts for a new computer build and have a Corsair Force Series MP300 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD (CSSD-F240240GBMP300)and a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB V-NAND 2.5" SSD (MZ-76E500BW) and want to use one of them as the main C Drive. How can I couple the two drives for best result.? I think the 240GB MP300 is a bit small for a C Drive as I will be installing W10 Pro x64 v1809 and that with its updates uses a lot of drive space and once I start to load AV and a few other programmes there will not be a lot left. I bought the drive because it was on special for $70.00 NZ If I use the 500GB 860 EVO as main C Drive that will give me more space to instal to and as one of the new Computer games I have is 52GB unpacked and 67.3GB installed that definitely will not leave much free space n the 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD. At the moment I have almost all I will instal to new rig installed onto a 500 GB SATA HDD and have 315GB free of 465GB available. Would I be best to install all to the 240GB M.2 NVMe and use the Evo 860 as a slave drive and instal more programmes/games/apps to that or should I simply just use the Evo 860...or maybe return both and do a swap for a 1TB 860 Evo SSD? The other components of the new rig are Gigabyte AB350M-D3H motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2400G APU, 16GB GSkill FlareX 2966GHz Cl 15 DDR4 RAM and an EVGA 650GD 650W 80Plus Gold 80 + PSU. Am considering buying a Radeon RX570/580 GPU Card...when the new 3rd Gen AMD 3600 CPU is released. I am expecting the AMD Ryzen5 and the GSkill Ram to arrive in courier delivery this morning and then I will hook it all together. Will have to reinstal W10 and get it activated again as its new computer. I could try clone all I have on this computer 500GB HDD over to the new set up, but...will still have to have it activated again, so maybe its best for a clean instal all. Courier man just made my day and bought the goodies to my door. :D No rush to get it all up and running...haste makes waste. Cheers in advance. |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458188 | 2019-02-13 21:38:00 | Use the NVMe SSD as the boot drive - it's much faster. Use the 500GB as a data drive - you can redirect user folders, and setup game librarys etc on that second SSD. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1458189 | 2019-02-13 22:20:00 | While I agree with wratterus in all honesty I don't think you will notice the difference whichever you use as a boot device. Also 240G is plenty for a Boot drive as long as you install games and store large files elsewhere. I find 120Gb can be a bit restrictive but 240 is no problem. Also I did manage to run windows on a 32GB SBC for a while so I know it's possible (don't do that, seriously). I recently switched to an NVME SSD boot drive from a sata based SSD and it's honestly not that easy to tell. Old drive was an 850 evo SATA SSD, new drive is a 960 evo NVME drive. Windows boot times and software launches are more affected by the random acess performance than sequential read and write speed. |
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| 1458190 | 2019-02-14 01:37:00 | I think the 240GB MP300 is a bit small for a C Drive as I will be installing W10 Pro x64 v1809 and that with its updates uses a lot of drive space and once I start to load AV and a few other programmes there will not be a lot left. That wont take up much room. Just did a install yesterday on a 256GB SSD, had a look after reading this post, With Windows 10, all updates, Microsoft office 2016, + nod32 antivirus total space used 22.87GB You want space ?? costs $$, like the one I'm about to build, main drive is 1TB M.2 SSD with 4 TB mechanical Storage drive :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1458191 | 2019-02-15 09:49:00 | wratterus: thanks for the advice. I was considering doing that as you suggested. I recall speedy gonzales , from at least 8-10 year ago advising me that Computer Games are best installed to the Main C Drive when I had asked a question about installing to a Slave HDD or External HDD. I installed many games to the Slave drive and they worked without any signs of lag etc. Cheers and I am about to instal Win 10 Pro x64 v 1809 and A Comodo IS and then set it aside to run and download Windows updates etc, while I sleep :D Thanks again (y) :D |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458192 | 2019-02-15 10:09:00 | dugimodo: thanks. As you see I opted for the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G APU as opposed to the 2600. I figured that the 2400G will do a grand job for the next year and also it will be a nice ;back up drive to have at hand if/when I upgrade to the 3600 when it is released, this year sometime. As well as getting a Decent GPU for it. I could get that Radeon RX570 now and instal /use it with the 2400G. I will be choosing the Radeon GPU as opposed to the Nvidia Cards I have been using exclusively for 12-55 years, reason for my going to Radeon is because the cards drivers are 100% compatible with the Ryzen 5 2400G APU whereas it has been reported/discovered that there is a conflict between the Ryzen 5 2400G APU Graphics and Nividia Drivers,,,that both Radeon and Nividia are working to rectify the problem. Thanks |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458193 | 2019-02-15 10:37:00 | wainuitech: thanks. I will be using the M.2 NVMe 240GB as Main Boot drive and the 860 Evo as a slave (data/games instal drive).... As for space :D ... yeah I have been accustomed to having Sata 3 1TB Boot Drives or a 2TB ...usually a 1TB. I will have to adjust my storing habits . As for space I have 4x 4TB Sata External USB HDD's and I was running a 1 or 2TB Sata 3 HDD in the computer as a Storage drive, usually for when I am editing and compiling video files and tracscoding them to DVD Vob/IFO movie format or to MKV MP or .H264 if the person whose camcorder/video recordings wanted a compilation in that format. .H264/.H265 play well on a Blue Ray home theaters and the qualty is fantastic imo. Maybe in the year as it progresses I might purchase a 1TB M.2 NVMe or a Evo 1TB SSD.... see how things go for the time being. I am looking forward to getting the new rig up and running and see what I been kmssing out on with not using SSD's and DDR RAM. I am always a generation or two behind but I get along fine. Also the step up to 3.6GHz from the 2.8GHz of the AMD Athlon II 630x4 I have used for the past ten year will be a nice little buzz. It served me well did that nice quad core. I was so fast I couldn't be caught to be given a speeding ticket. I only have a basic Monitor that is LCD so unfortunately I do not get the full benefits of of the rippling water image details etc if I had a monitor that will gimme the 4K imagery. Another ' somewhere over the rainbow' there's crock of delights waiting for me. :D Thanks very much. |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458194 | 2019-02-15 10:43:00 | Now my friends and advisors, I go to start the W10 instal. The road is long but better than the Clone from this Computer to the new one. New rig deserves a clean Fresh beginning, Ciao for now. |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458195 | 2019-02-15 19:51:00 | I took the plunge and have just purchased a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card, should the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G need a little help from a friend. But in all honesty I am confident the APU will perform well for me with what I usually do with my computer. www.trademe.co.nz Now to return to the Installing of W10 etc. I used the motherboard CD that came with it to install all the drivers etc before I started the install of OS etc.... could maybe have sought out a newer set of drivers to Dload and use, but I used what was available, and also because the Google Searching I did wasn't actually taken me to anything more recent. Can always do a Driver update in the near future. Brekkie time now. :D then back to work. :D |
kiotimak (17660) | ||
| 1458196 | 2019-02-16 04:57:00 | Now to return to the Installing of W10 etc. I used the motherboard CD that came with it to install all the drivers etc before I started the install of OS etc.... could maybe have sought out a newer set of drivers to Dload and use, but I used what was available, and also because the Google Searching I did wasn't actually taken me to anything more recent. Nothing wrong with doing that EXCEPT, go to the manufactures site to look for anything Newer. OFTEN third party Drivers are fake or BAD !! When using the Provided CD, it installs, Windows then looks at the manufactures Drivers and updates any required. These days manufactures give the latest drivers to Microsoft for the updates. Example heres the latest Drivers for the Motherboard www.gigabyte.com |
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