960 evo + SSD + HDD

[Death0and0taxes]

Hey guys! 

 

So it's been a while since I've built a right & I originally bought a Crucial 256gb sata SSD for my boot and was going to use my Seagate barracuda 4tb as storage. 

 

But now that I have been made aware how much faster NVME is I bought a Samsung 960 evo 256gb

 

The system is running ryzen 7 1700 (will overclock) 

MSI carbon pro gaming x370 motherboard

1070 ti graphics. 

 

So my question is, what to do with the three drives? 

 

So obviously I'll use the NVME for boot, I was thinking the sata SSD for more readily available files like my downloads and videos? 

 

And having the HDD as my long term storage. Basically like a water fall effect between drives. 

 

Would like to get your input & thanks so much! ☺️

[Daniel644]

sounds like the smartest order, M.2 for boot and app install, videos or most played games to 2.5" SSD and HDD for longterm and large file storage (other games).

 

you could also slap the 2.5" SSD into some other laptop or something you have to breath some new life into it, like I did with my dads piece of shit Pentium dual core laptop.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just so you're aware, NVMe is basically no faster than regular SATA SSDs for booting and OS use. NVMe is excellent at sequential read/writes, which makes them very good scratch drives, but for most everyday use, they're not any faster in real world use cases such as booting, OS use and gaming. 

 

There's not much point in storing videos on an SSD with the exception perhaps of high bitrate 4K, where an SSD would make skipping through it smoother. I would store videos and other media on the HDD as they typically don't benefit from faster storage and have games and other programs installed on the SSDs. 

 

Having the downloads folder on the SATA SSD could be a good idea if you download a lot of stuff and need to move and rearrange things. 

[Gikero]

That is pretty much what I do.

I have a 250GB Boot SSD with just Windows on it. I have a second SSD for applications such as browsers, Visual Studio, LibreOffice and a few games. Then my 1TB spinners store user data.

C:\ = Windows
D:\ = 250GB DATA

E:\  =1TB DATA.

On D: I manually created "Program Files" and "Program Files(x86)". That way when installing new software, I just change the C:\ in the file path to D:\. Very quick and easy.
E:\users\username\ is where my Desktop, Documents, Downloads and other folders are mapped to. This can be done easily by right clicking on the folder you want to map, selecting the location tab and giving it the new file path.

[Death0and0taxes]

13 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Just so you're aware, NVMe is basically no faster than regular SATA SSDs for booting and OS use. NVMe is excellent at sequential read/writes, which makes them very good scratch drives, but for most everyday use, they're not any faster in real world use cases such as booting, OS use and gaming. 

 

There's not much point in storing videos on an SSD with the exception perhaps of high bitrate 4K, where an SSD would make skipping through it smoother. I would store videos and other media on the HDD as they typically don't benefit from faster storage and have games and other programs installed on the SSDs. 

 

Having the downloads folder on the SATA SSD could be a good idea if you download a lot of stuff and need to move and rearrange things. 

I want to store downloads on the sata, since my current rig I have storage on HDD and sometimes it' kinda aanoying having to wait for it to spin up when I havn't accessed it in a while