r/pcmasterrace • u/spaghettibenderr Desktop • Jan 01 '21

Just installed NVME..now what? Question

I bought a pre-built rig a little while ago. It came with a 250GB SSD and a 2 TB Physical Drive. W10 was installed on the SSD. I had since been installing all software onto the SSD but had "My Documents" all linked to be stored onto the 2 TB Physical drive.

Well, fast forward to now and the SSD is full.

I have been researching a build from scratch with my 13 year old and we learned on NVME M.2 and decided to buy a 1 TB NVME M.2 card/drive. I installed it last night and CLONED my SSD and the NVME is now the Primary drive.

Now I am wondering how I should set it up? Do I set the SSD as the Primary and just uninstall and clean up the drive so that it can be used only for the OS? Then use the NVME to install games/software? Then leave the 2TB Physical drive for data, like my large photo/videos archive, etc? I also have questions on partitioning, should I partition any of these in a specific way?

FYI, I use Steam and I know their is a Steam library, so I would like to know where that should live too.

Thanks in advance all!!

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u/CC-5576 i5-8600k@5.0GHz | Asus GTX-1070 Strix | 16GB Jan 01 '21

It all kinda depends on what you wanna accomplish:

Do you want to deep clean your pc and reinstall windows? If so I'd install it on the small SSD and put programs and games on the nvme. But if you don't really care about that I'd just leave the nvme as the boot drive.

I don't see any reason to partition a drive, but if you wanna do it for the sake of organising then go ahead. That's just personal preference.

You can have multiple steam libraries on different drives if you want, so you can out the most played games on the nvme, and the rest on the small SSD or the HDD.

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u/spaghettibenderr Desktop Jan 01 '21

Thanks for taking the time to reply I do appreciate it. I am not really too concerned about organization I just want to make sure I’m not doing anything harmful or anything that would degrade the performance of my system in anyway. At this time I really only have a handful of games so the size should not max out anything but I do have other software that does take up a large amount of space.
If the consensus seems to be that windows can share a partition on the NVME with other software and games then I guess I will just leave it alone and reformat my old SSD and use that as just extra storage.