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NVME or SSD as boot & Scratch disk ?

xtasemusic
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So , I am rebuilding my video editing PC , and I was wondering , should I put the OS on my 250 NVME (960 evo) and put the videos im working on on an SSD or the opposite ?  I used to have the os on my NVME  and stored whatever current project I had on the NVME too but I want them to be separate so I can have the read and writes separate from the OS and application drive like a scratch disk.

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NVMe will have basically no benefit over normal SATA for booting and OS use, but will provide a benefit as a scratch disk, so you should have the OS on the SATA SSD and the NVMe drive as a scratch disk. 

 

EDIT: Also, NVMe drives are also SSDs BTW. The difference is SATA and NVMe. 

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Windows on its own does not benefit from NVMe at all over going SATA 3, so I'd actually use the SATA 3 for boot and only use the NVMe for the actual professional workloads.

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Windows doesnt benefit from using an NVMe SSD for booting "faster" then a traditional sata based SSD. I'd only put your OS on the sata SSD and a few other programes/files for general use and the NVMe SSD for transfering larger files of which can take advantage of the faster sequential read and write speeds of the NVMe SSD.

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I agree with what's written above.  I have a dual-purpose system: gaming and editing.  And for my system, it makes a lot of sense to have the applications on the fastest drive possible due to loading large(r) maps in games.  But if you're just editing with the system, keep the OS and apps on an SATA3 SSD and put the data you'll be working with on the NVMe.  Your editing will scream that way.

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An NVMe drive is an SSD, so I assume you're talking about SATA SSDs vs. NVMe SSDs?

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Thanks a million guys. I will definetly go for Sata os and NVME scratch ! ( now I have to clone the disk because I jumped the gun and installed windows on the NVME -__- )

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