Need help configuring my ssds

[Marcseli]

My pre-existing 850 evo has all my data inside. I want to move the data to my new 960 evo, however I want to keep the OS on the 850 evo, because it is much faster. how do I move the files from one drive to the other? Thanks.

 

Btw: My 850 evo has read and writes of over 8 gigs, thus why I want it as the boot drive.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

It doesn't have those reads and writes.  What you're seeing is the RAM speed, not that of the actual SSD. 

[Cracklingice]

960 evo is faster than 850 evo.  I'm confused why you wouldn't want to boot from the 960.

[Marcseli]

I allocated the ram cache to the ssd

 

[Spirit_Hunter]

but if you ram cache the 960 you'd get better performance...

[Marcseli]

its not available for the 960 evo. only for the 850 evo.

 

[Terrorjoekel]

you would do well to just use the 960 evo. Those numbers you see are from a ramcache that do nothing for booting up systems as it only works when writing (its just a benchmark number). The 960 evo is much faster in every aspect, that ramcache is only like a temporary buffer that works well only when writing smaller bursts of data.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Indeed, Rapid Mode is not available for the NVMe SSDs.  But they're still the better drives overall.

 

Don't let the benchmark numbers fool you.  Rapid Mode only really improves the write speed.  The read speed increases too, but only for files that are still in the RAM (so the ones you've written last, as happens during benchmarks). 

If you start Windows (or a program or a game) all the data needs to be loaded from the SSD, it's not present in the RAM cache already.  So you'll only have your SSD's native read speed (Somewhere in the 500MB/s range for the 850). 

That's the kind of stuff your SSD will be doing the most, and the 960 is much faster at it than the 850 is.

[Marcseli]

Oh okay. How do I move my data then to the other drive?