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I'm using a samsung EVO 850 250GB SSD for the OS (And only for the OS).

My data drive is going to be a Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2 SSD drive.

I chose not to use the M.2 drive as my OS drive and subsequently my only drive because 1, the OS being on the same drive as the data slows everything down IMO (Correct me if I'm wrong), and 2, I've heard and read that using the M.2 drive as a boot drive can sometimes not work or cause headache.
 
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" the OS being on the same drive as the data slows everything down"
This doesn't really apply anymore.

many people used to use two drives for the following reasons:
a) reliability. If your data drive crashes, you don't have to re-install the OS to recover, or if your OS drive crashes, your data is safe.
b) speed in memory starved situations like servers where having data and your swap file on separate drives makes things much faster
c) speed because of data fragmentation - this does not apply to SSDs, only mechanical drives where seek time is an issue.
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What are you going to be using the data drive for? I'm kind of wondering if you actually need a 960 EVO.

Other than the M.2 difficulties, (i don't have any personal experience with that), you reasoning doesn't really make sense. It's kind of like people that boot off a HDD and use a SSD for data. The NVMe 960 is much faster than the SATA 850.
 
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So, you're saying that the difficulties I read up on are no longer prevalent? By data, I mean games. It's for a gaming rig. Faster HDD read times are faster loading times. I get the fact that the 960 is significantly faster than the SATA. I only grabbed the sata drive I chose because it was a relatively cheap SSD. I would have bought a 128 or a 256 GB if I had seen them at the time I looked. (I didn't so much care about the OS drive as I did the 960).
 
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If you are only planning on gaming, you really don't need a 960 Evo. A regular 7200rpm HDD nowadays with a 64GB cache should be just fine for gaming. The main thing you would notice with games on a SSD is just that load times are shorter, but memory is what's really going to affect your actual gameplay.

I don't know if M.2 will present any difficulties for you to setup with your hardware. I just don't have any personal experience there.
 
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" the OS being on the same drive as the data slows everything down"
This doesn't really apply anymore.

many people used to use two drives for the following reasons:
a) reliability. If your data drive crashes, you don't have to re-install the OS to recover, or if your OS drive crashes, your data is safe.
b) speed in memory starved situations like servers where having data and your swap file on separate drives makes things much faster
c) speed because of data fragmentation - this does not apply to SSDs, only mechanical drives where seek time is an issue.
 
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Rkzhao, I'm all about load times. No, but really, I've got the money to spend and I'm all for doing the m.2 SSD for the sole point of that. I also do use the computer for other things than gaming. I do graphic design both 2d and 3d, and I host servers off my computer. I do modding in the unreal engine and in other games. Load times are so frustrating when starting and stopping games for testing purposes.

I have 64gb of ram. I'm not concerned about a cache or memory problems.

Jasonkaler
Your first answer, yes that's another reason I'm doing it. I like to purge my gaming hard drive every once in a while to remove all the built up files. I also like to reinstall windows once in a while to restore factory settings and remove any error build ups or other problems. As far as part 2, again, 64gb of ram. Part 3, I'm with you on that one.
 
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