I was wondering what else those of you with a (boot) SSD (seperate from your main storage - be it a HDD or another SSD), put on your SSD. I recently ordered a new SSD, a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107"]120GB Kingston SSDNow V300[/URL] and a new HDD, a [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339"]1TB Western Digital Blue[/URL].
I'm very excited for this upgrade, for my current HDD, I'm afraid, might die on me soon.
So far, I'm thinking I will install Windows (of course) on it, foobar2000, and my browser, Opera. I was considering putting Steam on it too, and having the games directory on my HDD, but I don't think this is necessary.
With [B][I]You are going to get banned![/I][/B] looming over me as I wrote this, I couldn't help but be a little nervous. At first this seemed like a simple question, but I think it would be interesting to see what else people put on there SSDs. I was considering putting Space Engine on it too, but I want to see if someone is also doing this (or something even more clever/interesting!).
In general you want put programs on an SSD that you use very frequently and have some kind of longer loading/start up times.
I personally would not put steam and foobar on an SSD, since those two programs do not really benefit on an SSD, at least to my experience.
I personally have windows, my internet browser, Photoshop, After effects and some programs that for some reason want to install to C: no matter what on my system SSD.
I also own a second SSD which I use for games I want to load fast and for recording game footage (after recording the footage will be moved to storage HDD to conserve space).
I essentially just have windows, my user directory (which is mostly just photos and ini files, I keep my music and videos elsewhere), gimp, and a couple tiny programs that take up only a few megabytes of space on my SSD. all my music, movies, games, and large programs go on my 1 tb samsung hdd
I have an older version of that ssd you posted and it's been working great for 5 years now. the performance is awful compared to a modern SSD though
In my case I've got Windows 10, and all of my programs stored on my SSD. Most of my games are on my HDD except for Fallout 4.
[QUOTE=diwako;49285165]In general you want put programs on an SSD that you use very frequently and have some kind of longer loading/start up times.
I personally would not put steam and foobar on an SSD, since those two programs do not really benefit on an SSD, at least to my experience.
I personally have windows, my internet browser, Photoshop, After effects and some programs that for some reason want to install to C: no matter what on my system SSD.
I also own a second SSD which I use for games I want to load fast and for recording game footage (after recording the footage will be moved to storage HDD to conserve space).[/QUOTE]
Nice! Thank you! Does this mean that even if you use change Windows 10 storage settings, when you change which drive new apps/programs will install, some programs will insist on installing on C: no matter?
I also plan on installing all my drivers on my PC. Is necessary? Is this a good way to utilize my SSD?
I have Windows on my SSD along with a couple of programs (like my web browser which doesn't make any sense really) and a few large games with shitty load times. User directory has been moved to my hard drive because it's currently 4x larger than my entire SSD so that won't work even if I want it to. All other programs and the other 95% of my steam games go on the HDD.
Windows, all of the software except for games, user profile folder (desktop, documents, appdata, temp, etc). Still have ~25 out of 120GB left.
Absolutely everything but archive files like TV shows, games or program installers.
500GB SSDs aren't too expensive on sale nowadays ($110-150) and SSD speed is useful for mass data processing.
Quite simple:
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C is the only SDD though.
"Documents" include pictures and music.
I've got all my programs, some games, and user folders all on my 480gb SSD. Most games go on a dedicated 1tb, then all my media and VM's go on a 2tb. Though now I've got a 4tb in my server so I really don't need to keep media on my desktop. Might swap the 2tb to my games drive and make my 1tb a dedicated VM VDI drive.
OS and internet browser
Given Kingstons very awful practices,[URL="http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand"] especially involving the SSDNow v300[/URL], I would cancel and return your order and buy from a company that doesn't do things like awfully downgrading the performance of products compared to review samples.
Windows and planetside 2. Because loading times matter in that game.
[QUOTE=taipan;49293330]Windows and planetside 2. Because loading times matter in that game.[/QUOTE]
Yeah PS2 and GW2 on SSD's were a great advantage.
If you want to load a game fast, then put that game on it.
Windows and main program files. I put videos and recordings on a 3TB external drive and steam on a 320gb HDD.
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