Question about the Samsung 960 evo 250gb m.2

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So I am building a new gaming pc and have a question I saw some mixed answers and figured I’d give my situation and see what answers I get, with that being said my build consists of a
Samsung 960 evo m.2 ssd for the boot drive and a
Hitachi 3tb mechanical drive for storage, iv seen that I shouldn’t use the m.2 for boot device also was wondering if there was anything extra I will need to do before installing windows 10 home.

Should I do os first, then plug in the mechanical drive?
Should I use this m.2 for os?
Is it faster then the normal 2.5” ssd?

If anyone is curious the motherboard I will be doing the build on is the
Asus z270-e gaming atx motherboard.

Also I’ll be using a usb to install windows as I don’t have a optical drive.
 
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1 yes, install the OS to the SSD, update then hook up any other drives. this will force windows to put all files needed for boot on the SSD. if other drives are installed the MBR or other system files may be installed to the extra storage requiring both drives to boot windows. a huge pain in the hole when/if a HDD fails and the MBR was stored there.
2 yes the SSD is hugely nearly 16x faster than the HDD.
3 yes roughly 3x-4x, but you will not notice much of a difference in daily driving. copying from an m.2 SSD1 and to another m.2 SSD2 the speeds are really impressive. for regular use you would be hard pressed to notice outside of rare cases.

 
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I herd that nvme m.2 you have to do a lot of extras and other stuff to get it to work, and I herd the Samsung 960 evo is nvme, I just wanted to make sure I can have my m.2 install windows with a usb sense I’m not going with a optical drive and then do all my drivers and everything on the m.2 and then plug in the mechanical drive, also is it worth it putting like csgo and h1z1, or league of legends on the m.2 or should I just install those onto the mechanical drive? Will it make a huge difference? I know it’s faster then the mechanical but should I keep the m.2 for OS and drivers ONLY, or does it matter?
 
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