viivo
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I have one NVME SSD and two SATA - would using the fastest drive for Win10 instead of one of the slower SSDs make any practical difference in games and daily usage?
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Everyone seems to be saying the fastest drive should be the OS but I'm wondering what the justification, reasoning, and proof for it is?
Out of curiosity I monitored 5 mins of activity on my OS drive while loading programs off a completely separate drive. During that 5 mins the OS read <200mb, and wrote <50mb. While the drive I loaded programs from (just random games) would've gone through GBs of reads.
The only task I can see it benefiting is windows update and virus scan times. Boot time differences from whatever I can see is pretty similar to game load differences and I wouldn't think is significant (how many times do you boot per day?).
This is assuming a comparison between a SATA SSD and NVMe SSD, not a HDD (OS) vs NVMe SSD/SATA SSD.
Everyone seems to be saying the fastest drive should be the OS but I'm wondering what the justification, reasoning, and proof for it is?
Out of curiosity I monitored 5 mins of activity on my OS drive while loading programs off a completely separate drive. During that 5 mins the OS read <200mb, and wrote <50mb. While the drive I loaded programs from (just random games) would've gone through GBs of reads.
The only task I can see it benefiting is windows update and virus scan times. Boot time differences from whatever I can see is pretty similar to game load differences and I wouldn't think is significant (how many times do you boot per day?).
This is assuming a comparison between a SATA SSD and NVMe SSD, not a HDD (OS) vs NVMe SSD/SATA SSD.