I currently have the following drives and i'm deciding what to do with them when I (hopefully) get a Zen 3 CPU. The new motherboard I have supports 4x SATA 6Gb connectors and 3x PCIe 4.0 x 4
C - Samsung EVO 850. 120GB. OS.
D - Sabrent Rocket M.2 PCIe Gen3 x 4. 2TB. Games/currently some backed up photos
E - Crucial M4. 128GB. OS backup
F - Samsung EVO 850. 500GB. Unused
G - Samsung EVO 850. 250GB. Software/Documents
My plan was to keep my current OS backup on the Crucial drive and just wipe and re-install Windows 10 on the current C:
Games and programs are on seperate drives so not sure if i'll have to re-install those too (even if they are actually on the drives, not sure if they will work)
I like the idea of keeping OS on a reasonabily small disk as I have done for years so that it can be cloned & restored if need be.
If I use the Sabrent drive for OS, I expect Windows 10 will grow as it pleases and it'll become a mess. Plus cloning it to another drive would not be possible do to others being smaller. I could partition for say 500GB OS and use the F: for its backup but not sure I want to chop up the Sabrent or if partition would cause any issues. It would mean a nice fast OS drive though having Windows on the M2
I could just buy a secondary PCIe 4 M2 drive for OS but would rather not spend more money
C - Samsung EVO 850. 120GB. OS.
D - Sabrent Rocket M.2 PCIe Gen3 x 4. 2TB. Games/currently some backed up photos
E - Crucial M4. 128GB. OS backup
F - Samsung EVO 850. 500GB. Unused
G - Samsung EVO 850. 250GB. Software/Documents
My plan was to keep my current OS backup on the Crucial drive and just wipe and re-install Windows 10 on the current C:
Games and programs are on seperate drives so not sure if i'll have to re-install those too (even if they are actually on the drives, not sure if they will work)
I like the idea of keeping OS on a reasonabily small disk as I have done for years so that it can be cloned & restored if need be.
If I use the Sabrent drive for OS, I expect Windows 10 will grow as it pleases and it'll become a mess. Plus cloning it to another drive would not be possible do to others being smaller. I could partition for say 500GB OS and use the F: for its backup but not sure I want to chop up the Sabrent or if partition would cause any issues. It would mean a nice fast OS drive though having Windows on the M2
I could just buy a secondary PCIe 4 M2 drive for OS but would rather not spend more money