Got an M.2 NVME drive ?

Any drive above 2TB required GPT, so might as well use that, right?
 
No idea, thats why I asked
Does the windows 10 setup give you the option to partition the drive as gpt ?
 
No idea, thats why I asked
Does the windows 10 setup give you the option to partition the drive as gpt ?
It should be the default. I believe you'd have to do manual diskpart for anything other than GPT.
 
I've my MP510 (1.75tb) in MBR. But it's a non bootable drive, so... My Crucial SSD for the os is in MBR too. No problems....
 
First off using it as on o/s drive (by cloning your current C drive) is really quick and easy
second ready boost doesnt need the whole drive you could partition 32 or 64 gb off for readyboost and still use the rest for your favourite games.
How much it benefits you wont be known until you benchmark but it doesnt take long to set up so try it and see.
 
so, I got this Nvme SSD, and I dont want to use it for the OS -too time consuming now-, but to install my favourite games.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MZVLW256HEHP-PM961-256GB-Internal/dp/B06VYJMLS8

With it installed the benchmarks of my PC improved significantly.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/24243888

Should I use it as a Readyboost device to accelerate system speed?

From my experience using readyboost many years ago, i think windows 7 era. The performance improvement for launching small apps like office is more significant than games. Actually, i dont remember my games loads any faster with ready boost. But it was using a USB flash disk tho. hahaha.

Btw, yeah, agree with @Davros. Cloning C drive is easy and will give a huge, and noticable perf boost (even for opening START). It could take hours. When i cloned my almost full 1 TB SHDD (super slow out-of-cache read speed, under 100 MB/s sustained) to 1 TB nvme, it took ~10 hours. because the first 5 hours Macrium suddenly failed. I manually set the "Shadow copy" storage to 50GB, and the next 5 hours works awesome.

EDIT:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/24250757
yeah, my SSHD is slow. only 60MB/s for "mixed" stuff. While my drive was filled with tons of small stuff from Android Studio projects, IIRC it even goes down to 40MB/s for quite some time.

but your HDD goes under 30MB/s... the clone process may take quite awhile... depending on how full and how many tiny files you got.
 
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SSHD ?
Isnt that a normal hdd with a small ssd ? So doesnt it sort of have readyboost built in ?
ps: If you do decide to clone your c drive remember to first run disk cleanup delete all temp files from c:\windows\temp and C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Temp (hidden) and delete all your temporary internet files from your browsers
 
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