How to dedicate a ssd to just Windows 10 OS?

Samhfx · 27 Mar 2021 at 20:41

im building a new pc. im struggling to understand how to pick and choose a ssd.
should i have a small ssd pure.ly to have os on it and another ssd for everything else? if so which one should i get, the samsung evo

tres_kun · 27 Mar 2021 at 21:46

Are you after a sata ssd or m.2 ssd?
get the largest ssd you can afford
From a decent company
You can partition the ssd if you want it makes no difference for the ssd

mickyflinn · 27 Mar 2021 at 21:47

Its wise to have 2 ssd one for Windows and programs and another for games . You can always patrician a larger ssd to create 2 sepaerate drives but if the drives fail it all fails .

Me personally
500gb ssd or m2 windows and programs
1tb ssd or m2 for games
1tb or more mechanical hard drive for photos, docs and videos

xPETEZx · 27 Mar 2021 at 21:49

Depends on your cash situation and use case for the system.

If its a general everyday + gaming PC, there is no need to have a separate SSD for your games and your OS.

I have my OS & games on the same 970 Evo Plus 1TB. I chose to partition it into 2, so giving the OS just a small 200GB portion, and then another for games. However that is purely for backup and management purposes. You could just install games and OS to the same partition.

tres_kun · 27 Mar 2021 at 21:55

I have to many small ssds
Do yourself a favor and buy a big one and be done with it
In 5 years games might be 500GB

watercooledman · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:00

240gb ssd for windows then a 2tb hard drive for games etc etc

Samhfx · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:06

tres_kun said:
Are you after a sata ssd or m.2 ssd?
get the largest ssd you can afford
From a decent company
You can partition the ssd if you want it makes no difference for the ssd

Sorry I have no idea what satan or m.2 means.
I was gonna get a 1TB samsung evo. Would this be good to have os and all my programs and games?

Samhfx · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:07

mickyflinn said:
Its wise to have 2 ssd one for Windows and programs and another for games . You can always patrician a larger ssd to create 2 sepaerate drives but if the drives fail it all fails .

Me personally
500gb ssd or m2 windows and programs
1tb ssd or m2 for games
1tb or more mechanical hard drive for photos, docs and videos

How big should I get a ssd for os?

tres_kun · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:08

What motherboard do you have?

Samhfx · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:09

xPETEZx said:
Depends on your cash situation and use case for the system.

If its a general everyday + gaming PC, there is no need to have a separate SSD for your games and your OS.

I have my OS & games on the same 970 Evo Plus 1TB. I chose to partition it into 2, so giving the OS just a small 200GB portion, and then another for games. However that is purely for backup and management purposes. You could just install games and OS to the same partition.

Is it difficult to seperate os on a single ssd? I've never done it before my last build everything got messy on a single ssd

Samhfx · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:10

tres_kun said:
What motherboard do you have?

I'm in the process of building a pc. I got this so far

https://i.imgur.com/HQbYHrXl.png

tres_kun · 27 Mar 2021 at 22:32

The link is dead
If it is a new pc
It will have an m.2 slot
The western digital Blue SN550 1TB NVME can be had for 86.99
Not the fastest drive but 5 year warranty

Samhfx · 28 Mar 2021 at 04:47

tres_kun said:
The link is dead
If it is a new pc
It will have an m.2 slot
The western digital Blue SN550 1TB NVME can be had for 86.99
Not the fastest drive but 5 year warranty

Image should work now. I would rather pay extra for a faster drive than to rely on warranty.

ED209 · 28 Mar 2021 at 09:27

I have 1 x 1tb nvme drive but have partitioned it to 130gb for os and then the rest for another partition for all my game installs etc.

I do this as if I have an os issue I can format the os partition without loosing all my currently installed games.

I used to have 2 drives but this makes life easier all on one as saves having to disconnect other drives when doing an os install to stop windows installing stuff on another drive

DD_Crash · 28 Mar 2021 at 13:20

I would buy a 500gig M2 pcie drive with fast read/write speeds for the OS and another m2 1tb for games. If you go m2 there will be no cables to attach and it will be neater.

EsaT · 29 Mar 2021 at 15:28

Samhfx said:
Is it difficult to seperate os on a single ssd? I've never done it before my last build everything got messy on a single ssd

Partitioning drive is one of the things Microsoft hasn't yet ****** up/made hard in Windows.
https://pureinfotech.com/create-custom-partition-install-windows-10/

Samhfx said:
Image should work now. I would rather pay extra for a faster drive than to rely on warranty.

You don't get speed from small SSDs.
Because of low internal parallelism from physically fewer NAND chips being enough for capacity, smaller drives of serie are always slower than upper models.

Besides you can get faster PCIe v4 drives at price of those brand overpriced Samsung Evos.

pp111 · 3 Apr 2021 at 07:59

Samhfx said:
im building a new pc. im struggling to understand how to pick and choose a ssd.
should i have a small ssd pure.ly to have os on it and another ssd for everything else? if so which one should i get, the samsung evo

It's a matter of choice. I do exactly that, just in the event of disk failures, I find it better if I have my information stored on three drives. C: for Windows, D: for Games, and E: for work files and other stuff. It's arranged so that if one drive fails I can just replace it and the other drives are unaffected.

C: Does not need to be large at all. I have used 256GB for years. My current C: has 160GB free! So you can see that Windows and a few apps don't take up a lot of room. D: for games is 2TB. E: for work files is 500GB.

LordBeggar · 14 Apr 2021 at 16:31

Samhfx said:
im building a new pc. im struggling to understand how to pick and choose a ssd.
should i have a small ssd pure.ly to have os on it and another ssd for everything else? if so which one should i get, the samsung evo

I have 256MB m.2 for the main system, 2TB ssd for gaming etc and 8TB harddrive for backup

IT Troll · 14 Apr 2021 at 22:43

pp111 said:
It's a matter of choice. I do exactly that, just in the event of disk failures, I find it better if I have my information stored on three drives. C: for Windows, D: for Games, and E: for work files and other stuff.

I do something similar, a small 256GB NVMe for Windows, a 1TB NVMe for my user data, a 2TB SSD for VMs and a 4TB SSD games. Multiple drives has the advantage of reducing contention between processes. Games and VMs never have to wait for Windows.

pp111 · 15 Apr 2021 at 10:00

IT Troll said:
I do something similar, a small 256GB NVMe for Windows, a 1TB NVMe for my user data, a 2TB SSD for VMs and a 4TB SSD games. Multiple drives has the advantage of reducing contention between processes. Games and VMs never have to wait for Windows.

I arrange things that way because I can then move disks from PC to PC without problems. The work disk has no programs on it, just data, so that obviously can be moved easily. The games disk, surprisingly, can be moved easily too. It's Steam ( and others ) and moving it to a new PC, if you attempt to run a game, all the data is there, it Steam just realises that it's not fully installed and installs it for you, without the need to download anything. So if I have a disk or PC failure, I can happily move anything that's left to the new PC, or add a new drive, and most of my data and games are intact. It saves having to do dozens of hours of downloading, or restoring from backup.