Ideal hard drive setup

[Mylestheone]

Pretty simple question but curious as to what people would do. I've got a 970 Evo Plus 2TB that I plan to use for OS + games on my new build. I also have a left over 250gb 860 Evo. What would be the best use for it? More programs? More Games? Video editing drive?

 

[Mylestheone]

Is there much speed difference between the two?

real world might be different, but in terms of actual specs
970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME - 3,500/3,300 MB/s
860 Evo SATA 6 - 550/520 MB/s

 

[Mylestheone]

I use a second smaller ssd as a scratch disk for things like photoshop/video editting etc, but then I have more than 2 drives in my systems, with others allocated to storage and 'documents' so as to keep them separate when I do reinstalls etc.

ahh! see I didn't think of using it as a scratch disk, that's what I'll do and maybe some games that I don't play too often. I do have some disk drives that I use for long term storage and media playback and plenty of externals too

 

[Mylestheone]

I use a 250 for OS and applications but keep a 2TB one for games. If your games are Steam then they will happily install even if your C: is destroyed without having to download them again. Its a real time saver if anything happens.

True, I am at the limit on my current build with the OS on 250gb SSD though, plus I'd prefer the OS on the NVME drive

 

[Mylestheone]

Depending on how much room your documents/photos take up, you could stick the drive in an enclosure to use as an external backup. They're cheap enough.

Or sell it.

I already have 3 externals that total 18TB lol. I'll just use it as a scratch disk and other temp files here and there.

 

[Mylestheone]

*wonders why?*

My OS ( Windows 10 ) and apps take up 80GB. Everything else is on other drives. Well, two, I have one for Steam and one for general data.

My work projects take up a lot of data alongside bluestacks builds and VMs which perform a lot better on my SSD.

I'm just going to use it as a scratch disk.