Hello,
I've run Windows 7 for a VERY long time and at this point am open to giving 7 a try. I also wanted to give these neat new M.2 drives a go since my new motherboard, a Gigabyte Z170X gaming 7, can support two of them. It's been awhile since an OS reinstall, so I'd like some elaboration on a few things.
For context, I have two 500GB HDD's, one houses my OS, and one 500GB SSD currently just for my games, and a 325GB external HDD just being the windows backup location for a big folder o' important stuff on the internal HDD just so I have a copy I can disconnect from power easily in the event of a storm or other potential surge/outage.
1: I would love to get rid of all of the above sans the external, mostly just for the sake of running a case that empty, if someone can assure me that SSD's, for the average gamer and user, are at this point SUPERIOR to HDD's if money is no object. I'm told SSD's have two real issues: Limited use for archiving, that is they lose data if not powered on for a year or longer, a non issue for me being on my PC for one reason or another daily. The other issue is that they slow down when full or close to it; I'm told that around 15% of an SSD being vacant is plenty to mitigate that. True? Complete BS? You tell me.
2: As I implied, I'm kind of on the fence about Win10, and would love to be able to boot back to Win7 as I please. When an OS is installed it's to a particular hard drive, correct? So with what would be 5 drives (if I got an M.2) I could, say, throw 10 on the M.2, and hop between at will? I am NOT arbitrarily confined to one OS per PC?
3: Generally speaking, would M.2's be a good idea for what I want to do? As I mentioned I already have a SATA SSD with all my games, would an M.2 noticeably load them faster?
Thanks!
I've run Windows 7 for a VERY long time and at this point am open to giving 7 a try. I also wanted to give these neat new M.2 drives a go since my new motherboard, a Gigabyte Z170X gaming 7, can support two of them. It's been awhile since an OS reinstall, so I'd like some elaboration on a few things.
For context, I have two 500GB HDD's, one houses my OS, and one 500GB SSD currently just for my games, and a 325GB external HDD just being the windows backup location for a big folder o' important stuff on the internal HDD just so I have a copy I can disconnect from power easily in the event of a storm or other potential surge/outage.
1: I would love to get rid of all of the above sans the external, mostly just for the sake of running a case that empty, if someone can assure me that SSD's, for the average gamer and user, are at this point SUPERIOR to HDD's if money is no object. I'm told SSD's have two real issues: Limited use for archiving, that is they lose data if not powered on for a year or longer, a non issue for me being on my PC for one reason or another daily. The other issue is that they slow down when full or close to it; I'm told that around 15% of an SSD being vacant is plenty to mitigate that. True? Complete BS? You tell me.
2: As I implied, I'm kind of on the fence about Win10, and would love to be able to boot back to Win7 as I please. When an OS is installed it's to a particular hard drive, correct? So with what would be 5 drives (if I got an M.2) I could, say, throw 10 on the M.2, and hop between at will? I am NOT arbitrarily confined to one OS per PC?
3: Generally speaking, would M.2's be a good idea for what I want to do? As I mentioned I already have a SATA SSD with all my games, would an M.2 noticeably load them faster?
Thanks!
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