Optimal Disk Drive Management

bristol86 · 14 Apr 2014 at 13:02

Hi All

I'm replacing my 1TB HDD (of which I only currently use around 400GB) with a 500GB SSD and was wondering how best to manage the drives?

I will be reinstalling Windows onto the SSD then formatting my HDD to use as an extra storage facility. I plan on installing all my other software into the SSD with the old HDD essentially just being used as a dumping ground.

I was wondering whether there was anything that I should NOT be using the SSD for and using the HDD instead? For example anything that will involve a massive amount of writes to the SSD? For example should I set my internet downloads to the HDD rather than the SSD rather than writing big files often to the SSD?

I've never had an SSD before so any tips gratefully received.

Thanks

TheVoice · 14 Apr 2014 at 13:12

Wouldn't worry about it. If you're using your HDD for storage then you can obviously change the location of your Documents, Music, Downloads etc folders in Windows to point to the HDD.

bristol86 · 14 Apr 2014 at 13:21

TheVoice said:
Wouldn't worry about it. If you're using your HDD for storage then you can obviously change the location of your Documents, Music, Downloads etc folders in Windows to point to the HDD.

So you can have Windows on one drive but your Windows user folder on another? I didn't realise that. How do you go about changing the location of that folder?

Many thanks

AStaley · 14 Apr 2014 at 15:54

bristol86 said:
So you can have Windows on one drive but your Windows user folder on another? I didn't realise that. How do you go about changing the location of that folder?

Many thanks

Right click the folder and select the Location tab. I normally create a folder called "User Data" and then subfolders for Documents/Video etc and point to those.