What's your boot drive? (Any recommendations?)

FreedomEclipse · 2024-08-20T02:17:23+0100

Currently using a 512gb Samsung evo I bought off Amazon in 2018. I'm stepping up to a new setup and my new boot drive is going to be an 1TB SN770.

If youre only using it for OS and general apps, there's no real reason to upgrade it if it still has life on the clock.

freeagent · 2024-08-20T02:25:40+0100

SN850 in my rig, and SN750 in my sons rig.. both run mint.

Caring1 · 2024-08-20T07:12:16+0100

Current system is a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB

RootinTootinPootin · 2024-08-20T08:02:21+0100

Intel Optane 900 480gb and 280gb (son's PC)

AusWolf · 2024-08-20T08:07:17+0100

My main rig uses a Corsair PCI-e 4.0 drive, my living room HTPC a Crucial PCI-e 3.0 drive, and my bedroom HTPC an old Adata SATA SSD. Virtually no difference in boot times.

NSX05 · 2024-08-20T08:24:16+0100

Samsung 970 EVO Plus, bought 4 years ago.

Yraggul666 · 2024-08-20T09:28:28+0100

My boot drive is a WD SN850 500GB, 3-4 seconds faster than the SAata Samsung 850 and 1-2 seconds faster than the AData SX6000Pro it replaced on 22nd of april '22 i believe it was.
It's been rock solid since day1.
Just like oxrufiioxo i only instal win10 and core programs on it.
Also before the SN850 500GB i tried a win10 install on the AData SX6000Pro 3.0 1TB(which is now a secondary game drive), almost no diference between them, any decent PCi-E 3.0 or 4.0 will do the job as a boot drive if you're a casual user.

PierreJG · 2024-08-20T13:21:01+0100

I am currently using a 2 TB WD 7200rpm drive

. Try beating that. Well, for general use it is fine. It takes a little bit of time on start up but I do not have anything other than drivers that start up and in Linux, it runs fine ( a lot faster than MS ). I need to replace it but meh Just don't have the time at the moment. Maybe One day when I am big and strong I'll eventually get a new SSD

(old one went poof)

NSX05 · 2024-08-20T13:27:41+0100

PierreJG said:
I am currently using a 2 TB WD 7200rpm drive . Try beating that. Well, for general use it is fine. It takes a little bit of time on start up but I do not have anything other than drivers that start up and in Linux, it runs fine ( a lot faster than MS ). I need to replace it but meh Just don't have the time at the moment. Maybe One day when I am big and strong I'll eventually get a new SSD (old one went poof)

To be fair, I'm using a 4 TB WD Red Pro as a secondary drive for my music, photos, videos and games, and the fact that it can hit over 250 MB/s is pretty neat.

chrcoluk · 2024-08-20T13:30:01+0100

Samsung 980 Pro. In truth same feel of performance as both 970 EVO and the SATA 850 pro with some exceptions.

If hibernating, NVME will be appreciated as you dumping several gigs of data to disk in a very short period of time.
If page file is heavily used will appreciate NVME, although this doesnt need to be on OS drive.

Things like boot speed, loading desktop apps etc. is barely any difference between a decent SATA SSD and gen 4 NVME.

My older Qotom broadwell i5 NUC that has a M.SATA boots about 1/3 the time of my desktop PC. Probably because its loading much less drivers etc. My newer N100 NVME gen 3 based NVME boots very close time to the Qotom, a bit quicker which is more likely to be down to the CPU than the storage.

NSX05 said:
To be fair, I'm using a 4 TB WD Red Pro as a secondary drive for my music, photos, videos and games, and the fact that it can hit over 250 MB/s is pretty neat.

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Yep spindle perfectly fine for media.

unwind-protect · 2024-08-20T14:43:29+0100

I also use one of those 118 GB Optane drives in my windows gaming computer as boot drive.

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What's your boot drive? (Any recommendations?)

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