I have a nvme 1TB WD for my OS

RussD

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I have a nvme 1tb WD Black SN750 ssd as my Win 10 OS drive. Do you think it is too large? If not, what do you install on it besides OS & Programs.
I doing Photography and only had the OCUK PC a few days. It's going good so far.
 
RussD said:
I have a nvme 1tb WD Black SN750 ssd as my Win 10 OS drive. Do you think it is too large? If not, what do you install on it besides OS & Programs.
I doing Photography and only had the OCUK PC a few days. It's going good so far.
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Edit your pics off the ssd, then bulk transfer to secondary storage after edits. Gives you swing space.
 
Makes sense just to use cheaper smaller hd just for os and progs.

If you ever need to do reinstall just wipe that drive.


You could partition it of course but safer to have seperate drive
 
Thanks for your replies..Appreciated. I shall make a folder to put photos on it temporarily until I buy a 5 or 6TB HD drive.
 
I have a 500 GB ssd just for the OS and all the other programs (Editing software), I use a 2TB ssd for games library and a hard drive to store all the other files. Its a lot easier when you want to reinstall the OS again and you can simply wipe the drive and start from fresh because all your other files are in your other drives.
 
Eclipsed..Yes, on this older PC I use for everything I have a 500gb ssd for OS n programs then a 4TB, 3tb, 3tb, 1tb. Then 4x3tb in a caddy + 4x 3tb n 4tb hdd in another. Was going to put in a 500gb nvme in new pc but decided on a 1tb instead. Fatal mistake by me. It's done now so it stays. At moment I got an older hdd of 3TB + a 500GB until I buy a new 4tb or 5tb hdd.
Now for another Question--On the new PC MSI pro Z690 in the disk management the 1TB nvme comes up as Disk 2 (C) Whilst my 3tb (E) comes up as Disc 0 and 500gb comes up as Disk 1. Do I need to change the start up sequence so that the 1tb nvme is Disk 0 ????
 
It looks like UEFI takes over, in BIOS so it's the nvme 1tb, then for some reason it is a UEFI CD/DVD of which is not attached, then UEFI USB Hard disk, then UEFI USB CD/DVD of which I don't have, then UEFI Floppy, not had one of them in years. Then UEFI Network. All as FIXED Boot Order. So I can't change the other HDD to be in order as it will not let me. Is it because they be NTFS not UEFI?? All this new stuff is New to me so just learning about it. THANKS.
 
Since the OS/boot drive can end up with a lot of wear and tear, especially if it has productivity apps and browsers installed, then using a 1TB drive isn't overkill, because it gives the SSD more space for wear-levelling over time. It does depend on exactly what you're doing though, some programs/workflows do most of that work in RAM, rather than burning it onto the SSD.
 
Here is the photo of my BIOS
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RussD said:
Eclipsed..Yes, on this older PC I use for everything I have a 500gb ssd for OS n programs then a 4TB, 3tb, 3tb, 1tb. Then 4x3tb in a caddy + 4x 3tb n 4tb hdd in another. Was going to put in a 500gb nvme in new pc but decided on a 1tb instead. Fatal mistake by me. It's done now so it stays. At moment I got an older hdd of 3TB + a 500GB until I buy a new 4tb or 5tb hdd.
Now for another Question--On the new PC MSI pro Z690 in the disk management the 1TB nvme comes up as Disk 2 (C) Whilst my 3tb (E) comes up as Disc 0 and 500gb comes up as Disk 1. Do I need to change the start up sequence so that the 1tb nvme is Disk 0 ????
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1TB by nowadays standard’s is not much and I think you should be ok with it, unless a smaller disk would be a lot cheaper. its not good to run SSD‘s near it’s total capacity because it’s write performance will decrease dramatically.
 
RussD said:
It looks like UEFI takes over, in BIOS so it's the nvme 1tb, then for some reason it is a UEFI CD/DVD of which is not attached, then UEFI USB Hard disk, then UEFI USB CD/DVD of which I don't have, then UEFI Floppy, not had one of them in years. Then UEFI Network. All as FIXED Boot Order. So I can't change the other HDD to be in order as it will not let me. Is it because they be NTFS not UEFI?? All this new stuff is New to me so just learning about it. THANKS.
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What do you want to do, exactly? Are you saying that you want to boot Windows from an old hard drive that had Windows on it?
 
Tetras said:
Since the OS/boot drive can end up with a lot of wear and tear, especially if it has productivity apps and browsers installed, then using a 1TB drive isn't overkill, because it gives the SSD more space for wear-levelling over time. It does depend on exactly what you're doing though, some programs/workflows do most of that work in RAM, rather than burning it onto the SSD.
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I was using 64db SSD for a long time and even after years of use health went down a couple of percent if that
 
Tetras said:
What do you want to do, exactly? Are you saying that you want to boot Windows from an old hard drive that had Windows on it?
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NO. No Way. Was just wondering what else I should put on this nvme 1tb besides OS n programs. I'll now use the pictures folder temporarily until I buy a large hard drive. At moment I'm concerned about my 3200MHz running at 2400Mhz as above. Need someone to tell me those settings are OK or NOT.
 
RussD said:
At moment I'm concerned about my 3200MHz running at 2400Mhz as above. Need someone to tell me those settings are OK or NOT.
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The BIOS is a bit confusing, but it says XMP is enabled and the adjusted frequency is 3200 @ 1.35v. Was this before you confirmed it and exited the BIOS, or afterwards? I'd check with CPU-Z on the memory tab, the DRAM frequency on there should be 1600.
 
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