Question about adding SSD boot drive

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I've never had twin HDDs in a system before, but I've just shelled out on an OCZ Vertex 30Gb SSD to run Win7 from, plus I've already got a 1Tb Samsung F1 installed.
The OS is going on the OCZ, data on the Samsung.

Can I simply make a new "Program Files" folder on the 1Tb Samsung and install some applications and games on there? Will they still work just fine, even if all the OS files are on the SSD drive?

I'm planning to install most of my bigger, slower apps and maybe some games (L4D2) on the SSD, but not all of them will fit...

Are the Samsung and the OCZ going to play nicely together?
 
All right! Thanks, emailiscrap! I was getting excited about the new drive arriving tomorrow and suddenly had a horrible thought that it might not work as I'd assumed it would (that's happened more than once before...)
 
I'm only running Win7 32-bit on my system - no plans to upgrade that just yet! :D

Haven't checked exactly how much space that takes up, but I know it's definitely less than 30Gb, so the 30Gb drive is fine for me (well, I would've liked something bigger, but my finances couldn't stretch any further)

I'm happy enough to post how it works out for me - but are you still interested in the 32-bit version?
 
One more question that occurs to me - I don't really want to format my HDD and then reinstall loads of stuff as well as copy all my data back onto it...
So if I just leave it as it is (with Win7 still installed) then it shouldn't be a problem, should it? As long as I set the SSD as the boot disk, obviously!
 
After my Win7 32-bit install I had 19.7Gb left from a 30Gb SSD, so it's about 10Gb.

The connector for the SSD drive was some kind of joint data/power connector, which wouldn't fit in my Dell, so had to borrow the data connector from my HDD, which means I haven't been able to use both disks simultaneously yet. :-(

Very impressed with the speed of the SSD though - not "staggered" but definitely impressed. Startup times are definitely much quicker, but curiously shutdown seems no faster at the moment. Installation of Win7 and any apps is beautiful to behold - click, confirm and it's done! I think Win7 took about 5 minutes to install from scratch! :-D
The only app that doesn't start *instantly* seems to be my customised foobar2000, which is weird since it's quite a small and fast program...
 
One more thing... :D

Does anyone know if it's possible to have Steam and some of its games installed on the SSD and also install other games on the HDD?

I play L4D2 quite a lot, so would like to have that running from the SSD, but I also play a couple of other games sometimes and they're too big to fit on my 30Gb SSD as well. Could I put their data on my HDD? Or would I need to run a second copy of Steam on my HDD with my non-L4D2 games?
 
Thanks, guys - that's pretty much what I thought.
I suppose I'll just have to learn to live with the 40+ second wait for some games to start... :p
 
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