How much difference will installing the OS on a SATA SSD or M.2 SSD make?

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lockstercarbz

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I'm going to be buying one SSD for my new PC now - either a 250GB WD Black NVME SSD v2 (3000MB/s Read, 1600MB/s Write) or a Crucial MX500 500GB (560MB/s Read, 510MB/s Write) and another SSD later. Which should I buy first (bearing in mind that 500GB would be useful to begin with)? Will boot time be greatly affected between either of these options?

Thanks a lot for your help.
 
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"boot time" is the least of the benefits you get with an SSD vs HDD. Either SATA or NVMe SSD.

Assume the HDD takes 1 minute to boot up.
SATA SSD ~25 secs
NVMe SSD ~18 secs.

So what.
They are both way faster than the HDD.

The difference between the NVMe and SATA SSD is seen elsewhere.

What will you use this system for?
Overall parts list?
OS?
 
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Thanks for your answer, here's some more info:

Ryzen 5 2600 CPU
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (7200RPM, 6GB/s, 64mb cache)
GTX 1060 6GB GPU
ASUS ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard

This system will be used for gaming at 1080p and for rendering/modelling in Maya/Unreal Engine 4

OS will be Windows 10

If you need any more information, just say :)
 
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