Question Got a new 1TB MX500 SSD - Make it boot drive?

[OCNewbie]

I'm about to install a new Crucial MX500 1TB SSD I just bought. I had been using a 480GB SanDisk Ultra 2 SSD as my boot drive.

I'd prefer to keep the 480 as my boot drive so I don't have to reinstall Windows and I can reserve the full 1TB for games. Would there be any significant or noticeable performance benefit for making the newer/faster 1TB drive the boot drive, or is it more likely to be too small of a difference to notice?

 

[UsandThem]

Probably the only way you would notice would be to run synthetic benchmarks like ATTO or CrystalDiskMark.

In every day usage, you wouldn't notice.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah. My friend was all up in arms, about the fact that his UASP USB3.0 / SATA6G enclosure that I gave him a couple of years ago, was taking 5-10MB/sec off of the top of his sequential transfer rates, on his Samsung F1 1TB HDD. I was like, "really dude"? I doubt that you can even notice all that much difference, if you're not benchmarking them.

 

[arandomguy]

Seems like this would be a trade off scenario. While the faster SSD would as the OS drive would make that side faster I would think having the drive being dedicated to games would make that usage faster due to not needing to share resources.

This would be a something interesting to explore as I think many users now will have or will be moving towards multiple SSDs just due to accumulation. Previously this idea was always simply just dismissed due to the idea of buying a single larger SSD instead of multiple smaller ones.

 

[leexgx]

I doubt that most people are moving to SSD because most people don't understand how to use a computer to begin with the only realise what an SSD is until somebody say like me is installed one in one of their laptops

I would say use the 1tb ssd as your main drive everything but 500gb ssd boot and mostly everything and 1tb for game drive works as well (as you already have the 500gb ssd)

I'm going back to a customer soon to install SSD is into two other laptops (installed one in his ultra portable and he very must likes the 10 boot to desktop times, he would of Likey thrown the other 2 away and replaced them in any other case)

(on a side note you know anandtech reloading the page to gain more ad revenue is not frowned upon for extra clicks you know)

 

[kensiko30]

Just try it and you'll see. Clone your hard drive. Just did that last week with EaseUs ToDo backup, it went smooth but it took a while. Once you reboot you can choose either the Sandisk or the MX500 and you'll boot with the exact PC, so you'll see if you can speed.