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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Here is the photo of my BIOS
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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.
 
Tetras said:
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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No, it is saying 2400, and I'm wondering if it is set to that to keep system Stable as the CPU speed is 4.80 instead of 3.76. Yes XMP is enabled so it should be 3200 surely. I know NOTHING about these new Bioses and components these days, reason for asking in here.
 
Tetras said:
Can you post a pic of the memory and SPD tabs from CPU-Z? It would tell you if 2400 is the standard frequency for the memory (i.e. without XMP), or not. I can't believe that OCUK would configure the system to have memory at 2400, even with an overclock applied, but I doubt they would configure an overclock if you didn't ask them to, either.
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That is what I was thinking. I know how Good OCUK is. I will Open CPU-Z shortly. Cheers.
 
THANK YOU for this info. As I said before, these new Bios'es leave me in the Dark deep Hole. lol
I can now rest my mind and stop tormenting you all with this. Thank You.
 
UPDATE for you ALL---Today I had another look at the CPU speed & DDR speed.
Was 2400MHz on DDR speed as above in the image, so I decided to click the button that says XMP Profile--Surprise, Surprise it went to 3200MHz.
All OK at moment. THANKS..
 
Tetras said:
CPU-Z is pretty much never wrong, so if it went back to 2400 in CPU-Z (Dram frequency of 1200 in the memory tab) it sounds like you had a crash/reset?
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I shall check it from time to time to see if it changes. Thanks. So far all is going Good.
 
Spreading files over several drives costs a LOAD of cash these days. HDD are NOT cheap any more. I have 14 drives as it is so far, how many more should I have.
I'm looking at the cost of a 6TB & 8tb drive but can I trust them, that's the huge question. I will not ever buy any more Seagate drives as I lost 3 of them over last couple of years. Horses for Courses I guess. I shall plod along and upgrade as n when needed. My new monitor arrives on Saturday, so when that is set up we shall see how this i7 performs with Lightroom & Photoshop.
 
koolpc said:
What do you have that necessitates 14 drives?
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Photos. Thousands of them. All backed up as well. RAW to TIFF + Jpgs. I also do Textured images. So now we have a Folder of RAW+Tiffs + Jpgs + Textured images when I do them. So I go out once a week to take photos and that's a Load of Photos since 2002. I Deleted all my Slides and NEGS as my Digital took off and got better. I'm a member of 3 camera clubs, + RPS, +PAGB. It is my Hobby and it keeps my Dementia to a bear minimum so far as it keeps my Brain Active. I have promised myself over the last 5 years so start Deleting all those I do not use. But being a Lazy sod I not done it yet. Maybe one day soon.
 
mrk said:
You need to curate your stuff, delete what's not needed and consolidate the remaining stuff onto a more meaningful number of drives.

t's time to bin off HDDs in favour of SSDs. As far as I am concerned for my own uses, large SSDs have taken over and I only have a single large external HDD for backups and everything internal is SSD. I will get another 8TB SSD and put it in a USB 3 shell at some point and get rid of that single external HDD but HDDs are obsolete by all measures, and they're slow to read, write and access.

My primary work is photos (RAW files) for working in Lightroom. For that the 8TB SATA 3 SSD works perfectly. Yeah they are still expensive, but they are much more efficient and light years ahead in terms of speed and latency. Also draw less power and a longer overall reliability.
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OH GOSH!! mrk.. I will never spend that much on a SSD..Bad enough buying my new PC and new Monitor mun. lol..I know where you coming from though, but the cost is too costly on my Pension. Spent out for a while now. I'll probably buy a large HDD for Xmas and I will start culling my images soon. My biggest problem is my Hard Drives start from 1TB to 3TB to 4TB. So I think a 6 or 8TB might be the way to go. But not SSD. But you never know what 2023 might bring me.
 
mrk said:
Prices will def come down though, In the year that I've had the 8TB it's already over £100 cheaper than what I paid which is annoying but hey ho. This time next year the prices will drop further too.
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I Hope you be correct on that, though I think not. My big problem with very large HDD is I do not trust them. Fancy losing 8TB of Photos. It would devastate me. Feeling rather apprehensive about buying a 5 or 6TB HDD. Time will tell and I'm in no hurry to buy one just yet. Next year possibly.
 
OspreyO said:
I wanted to freshen up my storage and erase and dump my oldest drives. I'll do the same with oldest desktops get rid of them. I'm decluttering.

So I bought a machine with NVME slots to act as media server, backup, light gaming machine. I bought one 1TB for the OS as it made no sense to go smaller. There's no penalty for keeping a project folder on the OS drive. It's backed up, so can wipe it at anytime. Working off NVME or SSDs is so much faster.

I'm finding any SSD smaller than 256 not useful. So I'll wipe the smaller ones.

As with Russ the most of my storage is media and photos. Most of mine fits on one 4 or 5 TB drive. So I'm get rid of older smaller mechanical drives. Just keeping 4TB or bigger.

Most of my storage is external as I mostly work off the laptop.
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What do you do with the Old Drives once you wiped them clean?? I have wiped a few 1TB drives and just like my Old Desktops I built myself via OCUK they be cluttering up my room. Problem these days is that Technology has taken off big time and no one wants to buy an OLD AMD system or intel system with just 4GB RAM that you can't add to. So I now got Three old Tower Systems as I just replaced my old Aldi 4GB Medion with the new i7 12700k and MSI board. Plus I got boxes of cables for PSU's etc going to waste. Not to mention the IDE cables and DVD/CD Drives. I just replaced a Sony DVD/CDR drive as laser went on it with one of my Older NEC 350A but I had to buy a SATA to IDE in order to use it. It Works great. I will miss using my New PC with NO Drives on the front. That's progress I suppose. I got a 17" HP Laptop but I rarely use it these days. HDD, I have too many small ones from 1TB to 4TB. 1xssd in my Zalman Case along with 4 x HDD. Those Hard drives are backed up to 4 others in a External Enterprise case. Then a 4x Yottamaster with 4 drives in there. Plus a 1TB in my NAS drive as the 3tb Seagate that was in there packed up on me and I lost a ton of stuff on it. Thankfully that was backed up to another drive...YES! I do have too many drives and I must cut down on them. Once my new monitor arrives today I'll have a Redundant 22" Samsung on my hands. It's never Ending..LOL
 
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