M4 64gb Boot drive

Shadow-King · 17 Feb 2012 at 13:23

Hi all,

I was looking at getting the M4 as a boot drive to complete my build in the sig. I've done some research about SSD and the benefits, but when ever I look up how to set up a HDD for storage I get confused. I have a 1TB HDD which I would like to store media and documents on and would use my SSD as a boot drive with apps like steam, itunes, office and games im likely to play a lot like bf3.

I cant seem to find a definitive method of allowing windows to automatically store my media to the HDD. What is the best method for doing this?

thanks

Orcvader · 17 Feb 2012 at 13:33

Open up Computer, and under "Libraries" if you expand "Documents" and right click "My Documents", then "Properties", then go to the "Location" tab you can change the location of the folder. Do the same for the other folders such as Music, Downloads, Video, etc.... Simples

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Shadow-King · 17 Feb 2012 at 13:53

awesome, with the case of steam/origin/itunes would it be a case of just going into the program and giving them a location to look for?

Orcvader · 17 Feb 2012 at 14:12

Yup pretty much. Not sure about Origin and iTunes but with the case of Steam you can choose which drive it installs. Choose your HDD, then you can copy the old C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps from your original install into the new steam install. Saves you from redownloading all your games

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bledd · 18 Feb 2012 at 04:40

You won't need to remove steam, it's a semi portable program.

I just move mine to D:/steam/ and open the steam exe, it will install itself

Scuzzy · 18 Feb 2012 at 06:18

For steam apps and BF3 and to use this as a boot drive I would seriously consider the 128gb version.