Windows on SSD or PCIe 4 nVME?

liquidphantom · 5 Nov 2020 at 14:21

I'll be doing full system rebuild soon, although I will be keeping most of the drives (standard HDDs and SSDs)

I currently have windows on a WD M.2 SATA, but I also picked up a Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0.

Would it be worth having windows on the PCIe 4 nvme or leave it on the SATA nvme and save the PCIe 4 for games etc?

IvanDobskey · 5 Nov 2020 at 15:29

I'd always have my os on my fastest drive.

mattyfez · 5 Nov 2020 at 18:47

Yeah, no reason not to put the OS on the fastest drive.
I genearlly have OS, apps and a current favorite game or two on that, and then other drives are general storage, My C drive is only 240gb so can get quite full if I've got a few games on the go, so sometimes I'll have to install a game on one of my 'media' drives.

SpudMaster · 6 Nov 2020 at 01:04

Put the OS on the gen 4 m.2 drive definately. You probably won't notice much different between the gen 4 m.2 and sata ssd when it comes game load times

delpy8 · 6 Nov 2020 at 18:10

IvanDobskey said:
I'd always have my os on my fastest drive.

+1 for that

sandys · 8 Nov 2020 at 17:01

What's the point of OS on fastest drive, once loaded you'd not be using the drive at all, I wouldn't waste a good drive on OS unless its your only drive.

Cyber-Mav · 8 Nov 2020 at 17:03

Id like to see how nvme does with multiple vms compared to my sata ssd. I rekon nvme is perfect for the job.

EsaT · 8 Nov 2020 at 19:23

sandys said:
What's the point of OS on fastest drive, once loaded you'd not be using the drive at all, I wouldn't waste a good drive on OS unless its your only drive.

And loading of modern Windows isn't demanding task:
It's mostly loading hibernation file meaning very little IOPS load and mostly just easy sequential reads.
Also amount of data isn't such big that it would need the highest bandwidth.