Not directly Windows 11 related, but it does involve a Windows 11 installation...
In my PC I have the following drives:
- Crucial P2 CT500P2SSD8 500GB M.2 drive as C: with Windows 11 installed. Programs are installed here. (2300/940 MB sec.)
- Western Digital Blue WDS500G2B0C 500GB M.2 drive as D: used to hold data, Steam/EPIC games, Downloads go here and TEMP is here. (2400/1750 MB sec.)
- Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB SATA as E:, currently empty except for a Clover EFI boot loader (117/110 MB sec.)
- ADATA SX8200NP 500GB M.2 drive holding a Mint Linux install that is currently not working. (3200/1700 MB sec.)
- LG Bluray optical disk writer
- USB 3.0 hub with multicard reader.
Right now, the system uses the Clover boot loader to choose an operating system. At one time I had a Hackintosh installation and Clover was required. I no longer have that installation, and with the broken Linux install I'm thinking of reorganizing the drives. I like the look of the Clover loader, but have no real need for it.
I want to have Windows 11 and Linux running on this machine. Both have built in boot managers, but neither look very good. Would you use one of the built in boot managers, or something else? Which would you use?
It looks like I should put Windows onto the ADATA drive, since it is the fastest. This would be C:.
Linux could go onto the WD M.2 drive as it's the second fastest. Obviously no Window drive letter here.
After that I'm not sure what I should put on the Crucial M.2 drive and what I should put on the 2TB SATA drive.
I'm thinking that the Crucial M.2 drive could hold %TEMP% and my Steam/Epic gaming files, which is currently about 268GB. This would be D:.
The 2TB SATA drive could hold Downloads and any other data I may have (emulators and such), which is currently about 73GB. This would be E:. I would also have this as a writeable mounted drive in Linux so I could move files between the two operating systems.
Optical drive would be F: and card reader G through I.
Does this drive layout sound good?
In my PC I have the following drives:
- Crucial P2 CT500P2SSD8 500GB M.2 drive as C: with Windows 11 installed. Programs are installed here. (2300/940 MB sec.)
- Western Digital Blue WDS500G2B0C 500GB M.2 drive as D: used to hold data, Steam/EPIC games, Downloads go here and TEMP is here. (2400/1750 MB sec.)
- Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB SATA as E:, currently empty except for a Clover EFI boot loader (117/110 MB sec.)
- ADATA SX8200NP 500GB M.2 drive holding a Mint Linux install that is currently not working. (3200/1700 MB sec.)
- LG Bluray optical disk writer
- USB 3.0 hub with multicard reader.
Right now, the system uses the Clover boot loader to choose an operating system. At one time I had a Hackintosh installation and Clover was required. I no longer have that installation, and with the broken Linux install I'm thinking of reorganizing the drives. I like the look of the Clover loader, but have no real need for it.
I want to have Windows 11 and Linux running on this machine. Both have built in boot managers, but neither look very good. Would you use one of the built in boot managers, or something else? Which would you use?
It looks like I should put Windows onto the ADATA drive, since it is the fastest. This would be C:.
Linux could go onto the WD M.2 drive as it's the second fastest. Obviously no Window drive letter here.
After that I'm not sure what I should put on the Crucial M.2 drive and what I should put on the 2TB SATA drive.
I'm thinking that the Crucial M.2 drive could hold %TEMP% and my Steam/Epic gaming files, which is currently about 268GB. This would be D:.
The 2TB SATA drive could hold Downloads and any other data I may have (emulators and such), which is currently about 73GB. This would be E:. I would also have this as a writeable mounted drive in Linux so I could move files between the two operating systems.
Optical drive would be F: and card reader G through I.
Does this drive layout sound good?
- Windows Build/Version
- Current release
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 11 / Linux Mint
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- C.S.D.
- CPU
- i9-12900k
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z690 UD AX DDR4
- Memory
- 32 GB DDR4
- Graphics Card(s)
- Strix RTX 3060
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG QNED75URA 43" TV
- Screen Resolution
- 3840x2160
- Hard Drives
- One 1tb M.2 for Windows, one 500gb M.2 for Linux, and a 8 TB HDD for data
- PSU
- 850 watt
- Case
- Cougar
- Cooling
- upHere D6SEC CPU Cooler
- Keyboard
- Cherry Stream wireless
- Mouse
- iClever MD172
- Internet Speed
- 1Gbit/100mb
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Microsoft
- Other Info
- Bluray optical writer drive
