Do I get an m.2?

[ItzUknown]

I have a 2tb WD Green drive that came out of a WD MyBook from 2011. Can I use it as a normal hdd for my pc or will I see impacts on the performance (I use a wd blue 4tb from 2017 which also spins at 5400rpm). I also have an intenso 120gb sata ssd that I propably won't use since windows takes up most of the space. I was thinking about buying an m.2 (1tb Kioxia exceria g2) and use that as my one and only drive. Do you think that I have to buy the m.2, get the m.2 and use the hdd with it or just use the things I already own?

[JimTheBeet]

Everything will load a lot faster with the M.2, and you can definitely use it with your HDD for extra capacity. It's up to you whether it's worth the price, though.

[ItzUknown]

4 minutes ago, JimTheBeet said:

Everything will load a lot faster with the M.2, and you can definitely use it with your HDD for extra capacity. It's up to you whether it's worth the price, though.

If I can use the hdd without it being unuasable then I will get a lower capacity m.2 and use them together. Thanks for the help!

[JimTheBeet]

5 minutes ago, ItzUknown said:

If I can use the hdd without it being unuasable then I will get a lower capacity m.2 and use them together. Thanks for the help!

Plenty of people use an M.2 boot drive and an HDD storage drive, so should be a-ok!

[JimTheBeet]

9 minutes ago, ItzUknown said:

If I can use the hdd without it being unuasable then I will get a lower capacity m.2 and use them together. Thanks for the help!

Also, are you planning on using that laptop drive in addition to your current drive? Or instead of it?

[ItzUknown]

20 hours ago, JimTheBeet said:

Also, are you planning on using that laptop drive in addition to your current drive? Or instead of it?

I'm planning to use the m.2 that I ordered (500gb crucial p5) and that 2tb wd green from 2011. The other drive is used by another pc.

[Mark Kaine]

i think only you can answer this,  from my pov if you're ok with a 3.5" 5400rpm drive a second one would hardly matter since your hdd performance is already really low, but ultimately it's still fine just incredibly slow compared to a ssd .