Hardware Thread 2020

Geneo said:

Oh, programs load faster, but to most I don't think it would be significant compared to just the nvme SSD.

Hi,
Yep if you have the memory to burn it's worth it

Yes even m.2 don't do anything over 2.5" ssd's on majority of benchmarks.

Geneo said:

If I start running low on memory for photoshoping, I will dump it.

Hi,
I went back to 2.5" ssd's since I started using linux again
So much easier to keep os's separate freaking linux grub still sux lol

I reinstalled Windows on my new drive today. I decided to take the 2TB drive and partition it into a 500GB C drive (for windows) and the remainder as an apps/games/VM drive.

The thought was that I want to be able to use something like Macrium and occasionally grab an image of C that I could restore if disaster strikes. But I don't want my image to contain hundreds upon hundreds of GB's of games and virtual machines. I can grab an image occasionally that contains everything, but day to day, it's the C drive that is most likely to run into a problem due to OS updates and driver updates and such.

@pparks1
That is similar to what I do. I have a 500Gb 960 Pro with 3 partitions. One is system, second my user data, photoshop caches, and downloads, and a third for browser caches. I also have 2 1TB ssd in raid 0 for local system backups and games. Plus 10 TB of hard disks in external enclosures for system and data backups and photos. I use Microsoft Synctoy for data backups and macrium reflect for system images and game backups.

It is a real convenience to separate data and system partitions - It takes me only 4.5 minutes for a full system backup, and less than that to restore. I have restored hundreds of times I reckon.