I am going to build the system tommorow finally, after having the stuff in boxes since late December. Wish me luck there would be no faulty or downright DOA components, especially the essential ones like mobo, CPU, RAM or system SSD. Ultimately i set myself up, that i can keep using my current computer - originally i intended move some of the drives to the new one, thats why the delay in the first place - but because of work this proved to be impossible, so i am not waiting any further, bought one additional SSD instead. I would still like to use the new machine as soon as possible, and not wait couple of weeks for some RMA, obviously. So, fingers crossed.
I do have few final general questions:
- for system and apps aside of games, i am gonna use Samsung 990 Pro 2TB. Should i partition it for Windows and apps separately, or its OK to be on the same partition? I mean, is there anything to gain from having them separated, in case of some Windows corruption and need to reinstall, could this save me from having to reinstall all the apps as well? Or thats unavoidable, so its the same thing.
- recently learned about the SSD caching thing. I am bit stupid, this never crossed my mind. And in my current computer i actually do rely on mechanical drive heavily, my work projects are stored on 2TB WD Black drive from 2011 (i kept across 3 systems at this point). I have to access it everytime i do some work, so i have to often deal with longer opening times in 3Dsmax or Octane, or simply when the heads on the drive are "parked" and i need to wait for few seconds for the disk to awake. I could have used my secondary M2, which has some free space for caching, if i werent oblivious to this possibility, LOL. But its mostly moot point now.
Anyway, i am replacing said WD Black with 4TB SATA SSD (Crucial MX500) - will move all the current content in there. The question is, should i still consider this SSD caching thing on one of the M2 drives? I mean caching the data from said Crucial drive, since M2 is still faster than SATA? Or that did make sense only in case of mechanical HDD usage, but in real world, the difference between M2 and SATA drive would be negligible?
- finally, only drive i intend to keep from current machine is WD Gold 6TB. I keep there some movies and TV shows, like entire 90s Star Trek . It will be accessed only infrequently. However, i want to set it up as a back-up drive for my WORK directory on the Crucial drive. I would like that directory to be automatically backed-up to this HDD, maybe periodically or when computer is otherwise idle, i dont know what options are in there... would anyone care to advise the best possible way to do so? Do i need some third-party app, or can i somehow set it up in Windows?
Many thanks.