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Partitions on the main drive MP600 M.2
Hi guys! I'm building my new studio computer and I'm installing a Corsair MP600 2To on one of the M.2 slots on my (Gigabyte Designare Z390 motherboard) as a main drive C:/... I was wondering if it was a bad idea performance wise to use this main drive for Windows, Softwares, Pro Tools, plugins, etc and make 1 partition for my libraries and 1 more partition for my Pro Tools sessions. So a total of 3 partitions on this main drive. I'm concerned about performance, speed, writing, reading of the drive if everything is working at the same time in this drive... I've heard it's not a good thing to do in a physical hardDrive but I think it should be ok with this new type of technologies?
Thanks :) Windows 10 Intel i7 9700k Gigabyte Designare Z390 Motherboard Thunderbolt 3 Corsair MP600 2To M.2 slot 32gb DDR4 2666MHz Crutial Pro Tools 2020 UAD Apollo Twin X Duo core Thunderbolt 3 French is my first language! Canadian Last edited by yannou78; 05-06-2020 at 09:52 PM. |
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Re: Partitions on the main drive MP600 M.2
While you may be right and things may work fine, I'm not sure I'd go quite that far. Asking a fast SSD to act as 2 drives would seem to be okay, but acting as 3 at the same time might be pushing things too far. Why not just add another SSD for either recording or sample libraries? Its obvious that you didn't skimp on the rest of the computer, why skimp on something this easy Besides, drive space is cheap and you can never have too much of it(looking around my setup, I count at least 16 drives and some 20TB)
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Re: Partitions on the main drive MP600 M.2
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I think a M.2 NVMe drive will work, but I'd skip partitioning. Using two would be best, perhaps one for OS and the second for everything else. Backup to externals.
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Re: Partitions on the main drive MP600 M.2
I'm not an expert on this, but on second thought, maybe it would be okay to partition? If your build will have only one M.2 drive, I'd probably make 1 partition for the OS - for convenient boot imaging - and a 2nd partition for everything else. All bkups to externals.
Any experts want to chime-in?
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