Advice thread.
So, I bought SSD and installed in my based laptop, which has 2 (zwei) SATA slots, one is m.2 and second is classic for HDD.
Where should I install Windows, and where should I install GNU/Linux?
SSD is 480 GB, and HDD is 1000GB (GB, not GiB).
You fucked up.
Why? I bought cheapest SSD, because I need no speed, and I don't give a fuck about it dying. It is TLC apparently.
By definition the SSD is really faster than the HDD so by default I would say Windows on the SSD since the "graphics" will ask more ressource than Linux. But... 1To for Linux? will you really use it that much? If windows is still gonna be your go to for entertainement, you can just make partitions to have both on the SSD and keep the HDD for pure archive purpose (movies, pictures, music...)
This. Setup the SSD to dual-boot and throw your media on the HDD.
This is why I don't know what to do.
In Linux you can't do anything besides shitposting, so speed and space is not needed.
In Windows, you need speed and space (because Windows is so fat, it 100 GiB in two days just from updates and shit).
>, you can just make partitions to have both on the SSD and keep the HDD for pure archive purpose (movies, pictures, music...)
I thought about this, but I still remember pain of Windows removing my fucking GRUB, and BIOS doesn't understand two EFI partitions on one disk.
So I don't really want to do this...
Or I think I can install GRUB on HDD, which will boot Linux from SSD, but allow Windows to make bootloader on SSD, idk...
I don't get why you would use a M.2 for standard speed SATA. Why not just use a external SSD? That way you can transfer files between different computers, or hide your 300gb of porn. Not all motherboards have M.2 slots, it just feels like a waste.
>I don't get why you would use a M.2 for standard speed SATA
Because mobo doesn't support NVMe, it is basically second SATA. Laptop was like $450 on sale, but with Ryzen 5, RAM slots, so I can't bitch about it.
>Why not just use a external SSD?
Because laptop had empty M.2 slot.
> That way you can transfer files between different computers
It is not needed.
>or hide your 300gb of porn.
HDD is better for this.
>In Linux you can't do anything besides shitposting
If all you're intending to do is shitpost, why even install Linux a all?
And yeah, I'm the only person who cummed on this laptop. Suck this in ThinkFaggers.
Because I have some weird issues with I2C touchpad, and I'm not sure if it is hardware issues (it got much worse with BIOS update, so bad I had to roll back) or software.
I want to play some gamez which are not running well under Wine. Run SolidWorks, idk, update BIOS and shit.
So you essentially just want to use linux for some hardware diagnostics? Maybe consider just getting a distro that you can boot off a flash drive. Sounds like you mostly want to use windows, so this might be an easier solution. No need to partition your drives.
>So you essentially just want to use linux for some hardware diagnostics?
Not quite. I guess I forgot to mention that I have weird issues under Linux.
I want to use Linux for everything, because it just works (except those weird glitches, obviously). Shitposting, movies, programming, wine-compatible software, native shit like libreoffice, etc.
And I want to use Windows only for hardware diagnostics, software that doesn't work under Wine.
I mean, I use Linux now.
Ok, then you probably just want to split up your ssd between linux and windows so you can run both fast, and use the hdd for mass storage like movies and whatnot.
ugh you shouldnt have gotten an ssd. they have a shorter life span. live fast die young right lol
I've never had an ssd fail, and I've had lots of spinning disks fail. I've also never had a laptop last longer than 5 years, and I've never had a drive fail in less than 5 years. Chances are, whatever drive he gets, the laptop will die before the drive does. But, spinning disks are also more likely to die in laptops because the computer is moved around while they're running.
smells like a troll thread but I'll take the bait anyways.
>Linux and Windows can both fit on the SSD.
>partitions for Linux/Windows/Personal Files
my 80GB intel SSD easily held windows10 and programs on it.
how big can a Linux distro take? probably way less than 100GB.
linux and win10 can't possibly take more than 200GB
i recently just upgraded from 80GB to 100GB and my windows partition is only taking up 54.3GB
I know, I don't give a fuck. Plus, it is slower SSD.
It is TLC drive so idk how long it would last.
>where should I install GNU/Linux?
Why ? Why the fuck do you want to install this shit for ? You want to LARP as a cool hacker ?
I hate updates draining my battery.
But everyone knows Microsoft Edge gives the longest battery life of all browsers. Microsoft's own tests prove it.
I have 5 hours of battery life on Linux.
On Windows it barely did 3. I guess Microsoft is mining bitcoins or something...
Yeah, if your primarily using windows which is what it seems, just shove a linux distro on a flash drive and boot from it. Theres a linux distro for literally every purpose you could possibly need
Should have just bought a Mac OP. Nothing even comes remotely close.
Linux skills can be extremely valuable in the right job. Only jobless leftists would see acquiring skills as LARPing. Have fun in mummies basement. Time for chicken tendies!
I had a Mac.
Meh. Mac OS X became absolute unusable trash starting from 10.10...
I ended up installing GNU/Linux there... Then SSD died, and it was too expensive to replace, and it was already 5 years, so I got new laptop. This time, cheapest garbage I could find with specs I wanted. It happened to be Acer.
>Yeah, if your primarily using windows which is what it seems
Nope. Pic related.
sda is my HDD, came with laptop.
sdb is SSD, blank and virgin.
If you already run linux as your primary os, understand how to partition drives and build a dual boot system, why the fuck are you asking Yea Forums what to do? You know best how much you're going to be using the different operating systems, and how much disk space you'll need to devote to each. How exactly do you expect anons to help?
>If you already run linux as your primary os, understand how to partition drives and build a dual boot system,
Yes. But there is a problem.
Windows really loves to fucking erase everything from EFI partitions. It is annoying.
Also, I have autism, and I don't like having different partitions, because I don't fucking know how much shit I would install in future, and how much porn I would download.
> why the fuck are you asking Yea Forums what to do?
IP-range ban. I dindunuffin tho.
> You know best how much you're going to be using the different operating systems, and how much disk space you'll need to devote to each. How exactly do you expect anons to help?
I don't know what to do, really.
Either make two systems work in RAID 0 (with no backup, as I like), which would use 1/2 of OS here and there. Or don't fuck with RAID and install Linux/Windows on SSD, and install Windows/Linux on HDD.
Partion the drive out windows on 350gb of the SSD and then install Linux(ext4) after on the rest of the space, then make a 8gb swap on the HDD but format the rest as ntfs.
Congrats this will give you quick boots while letting either OS use the larger storage. I assume you want Moore programs on windows so that partion is bigger for programs you want to boot fast like games or photo editing shit ect.
What about software RAID 0?
My autism wants 50/50.
>boot windows from an ssd to make ur graphiks faster
It can, since loading times would be lower.
But I think Vega8 aint that fast
Raid 0 only works with identical sized drives. Even if it does install you'll just end up with slower speeds than if you just used the SSD alone. Honestly doing goofy raids should bother your autism more.
Besides if you used the HDD for just storage you have no loss. If you boot into Linux you'll still be able to used files that windows used on the HDD and vice versa. Linux with all the programs I've ever needed always is smaller smaller than 20gb so you honestly don't need to dedicate that much space. Also you need to partition a drive to use Linux no matter what because you need to give it a swap space as a partition.
Just install Linux on the SSD and throw the windows usb away. You can do many things in Linux its not just for shitposting like some other user said.
>Raid 0 only works with identical sized drives.
Fug. I never dealt with 2 drives, really.
>Also you need to partition a drive to use Linux no matter what because you need to give it a swap space as a partition.
True.
After googling "make 2 drives appear as 1" I found out that Windows 10 can do it.
But in Linux, I kinda don't understand how to do this. What is LVM, but for dump fucks?
Nonono, USB is expensive, format it.
Lvm is disk management kinda. If you need a guide there will be many online and on YouTube doing exactly what you are if my instructions weren't enough. You'll probably need an actual walk though. Ubuntu fourm will help you with babies first install. Good luck.
Also you don't want to raid SSDs and HDDs anyway but look up JBOD it's like raid with no redundancy or speed, but it let's you hook up as many random ass disks as you'd like and pretend they are just one drive.