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What to use for a boot drive?

Hey, my first time on this forum so let me know if this is the wrong place where I have to put everything and what not. 
 

Basically I am going to build a pc soon, and I have a 240gb Sata ssd and a 500gb nvme m.2 ssd. My question is, which one should I use for the boot drive? Would there be any differences between the two?

 

my initial idea was to make my m.2 as the boot drive and still add stuff like games to that drive and use the sata ssd as either extra storage or just apps on there so would this be a bad idea?

 

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Use the larger drive, you'll spend less time deleting stuff off your C:/ drive to make room for other things 

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Use the M.2. You'll get faster boot times. 

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I like to use smaller drives for my OS and the larger SSD for games and what not

 

Unless if your softwares are larger than 250gb then you may need a larger drive as system drive

 

I prefer smaller drive for OS because when I do need to format, the other stuffs on other drives can remain untouched

 

Performance difference wise, probably not too much of a difference really, not enough to matter...?

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3 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

Use the M.2. You'll get faster boot times. 

Clarify that faster means nanoseconds please.

 

Also, I'd use the smaller for boot and the larger for game libraries.  One game could fill up your entire boot drive, what good is that?

 

Besides, if you use the larger for boot, you'd either have to partition it or run the risk of wiping the entire thing if something corrupts your OS.

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9 minutes ago, Thisbigturtle said:

Hey, my first time on this forum so let me know if this is the wrong place where I have to put everything and what not. 
 

Basically I am going to build a pc soon, and I have a 240gb Sata ssd and a 500gb nvme m.2 ssd. My question is, which one should I use for the boot drive? Would there be any differences between the two?

 

my initial idea was to make my m.2 as the boot drive and still add stuff like games to that drive and use the sata ssd as either extra storage or just apps on there so would this be a bad idea?

 

It's really preference. There are upsides and downsides to both, just know the m.2 is a bit faster.

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