Best way to setup my 2 Samsung 840 EVO 1 TB SSDs?

[G73S]

So I ordered two 1 TB Samsung 840 Evo SSD and am waiting for delivery in 10 days.

Currently, I have a 256 GB LiteOn SSD + 1 TB Seagate 5400 RPM HDD

The way I have them currently setup

C: (256 GB SSD) over provisioned by 30% here I have the OS installed, programs, and 2 games

D : (1 TB HDD): has my dropbox folder, docs, pics, music, videos, download folder

So what would you recommend now? keeping my SSD partitioned into 1 750 GB (after over provisioning) seems a bit too much right?

I really am confused on what is best, to split the first SSD into C and D and put my dropbox and other folders on it and leave the 2nd SSD empty to prolong its life? or put everything on the 2nd SSD?

Don't know

please advice

also, I should OP both SSDs by 30% right?

I am gonna enable RAPID on the first one since I have 32 GB of RAM

 

[mrpiggy]

There's no point to over provisioning beyond the stock amount. What exactly are you hoping to gain by doing so? In any regular (re: non server) application, you will not see any difference in performance or longevity/durability by over provisioning beyond factory presets, so why bother wasting the space? Sure a server type environment can possibly benefit from manually over provisioning an SSD, but if your computer is not in that type of environment, you're just wasting space for no benefit.

Consumer SSD's are becoming a pretty mature technology now. You are not outsmarting the manufacture by manually messing with over provisioning and such in the hopes on improving the life or performance of the SSD in a normal use computer.

 

[G73S]

There's no point to over provisioning beyond the stock amount. What exactly are you hoping to gain by doing so? In any regular (re: non server) application, you will not see any difference in performance or longevity/durability by over provisioning beyond factory presets, so why bother wasting the space? Sure a server type environment can possibly benefit from manually over provisioning an SSD, but if your computer is not in that type of environment, you're just wasting space for no benefit.

Consumer SSD's are becoming a pretty mature technology now. You are not outsmarting the manufacture by manually messing with over provisioning and such in the hopes on improving the life or performance of the SSD in a normal use computer.

But I thought the Samsung Magician already does Over Provisioning, I didn't mean that I want to go beyond the limits that they suggest.

Anyway, back to the question, what do you guys think would be the best way to set those 2 drives up?

 

[Shmee]

You shouldn't have to do much in the way of setup. Simply install each in the computer, and use windows computer storage manager to create a single NTFS partition and drive letter for each. (unless you need more than one partition per drive.) I would just make each one its own partition, using the most available space. No need to save space unless you want to put in a second partition.

 

[mrpiggy]

Caveat to the above post from Shmee. If you are installing Windows (I assume it's Windows) from "scratch", the install program will create at least one extra small hidden partition in standard MBR mode (I believe three in EUFI mode, but I haven't done it in a while so don't remember exactly) on the OS drive.

If you wish to install Windows from scratch, but only want one big partition on your boot drive, then pre-partition the drive to a single partition via storage manager either on another PC (or before you swap out the existing drives) before you attempt a from-scratch Windows install.

 

[Shmee]

Caveat to the above post from Shmee. If you are installing Windows (I assume it's Windows) from "scratch", the install program will create at least one extra small hidden partition in standard MBR mode (I believe three in EUFI mode, but I haven't done it in a while so don't remember exactly) on the OS drive.

If you wish to install Windows from scratch, but only want one big partition on your boot drive, then pre-partition the drive to a single partition via storage manager either on another PC (or before you swap out the existing drives) before you attempt a from-scratch Windows install.

Yes I would heed this advice in general. Kind of like how windows sometimes puts the MBR on the wrong drive if you have more than one; best thing is to detach all drives but the OS drive in this case.

But the OP already has a boot SSD, so I think he should be good. I would keep the current setup, just adding the 2 1TB SSDs for data/programs etc.

 

[G73S]

yeah I always have only one drive when formatting as if you had 2, the Windows installer would place the boot files on the 2nd drive (very dumb)

Anyway, I will keep the same drive configuration I have now then but just replace them with the new SSDs