What do SSD users move off the C drive?

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I was just wondering, given all the people using SSDs now for their Windows installation, how much data they transferred off of their SSDs. Do you move the entire C:\Users folder? Or just your Documents, Download and Pictures etc?

Also, if you move the Users folder, which method are you using?

Just interested to know :)
 
I've only made a point of moving games over to my secondary drive due to the space they use.

I use Linux mostly and make a point of moving write-intensive areas to another disk such as the swap, temporary directory and log files however on Windows im not sure if there are any write-intensive areas worth worrying about that you can easily move. It's more down to if you need the space. I suppose you could move the page file to another disk if you wanted but with enough memory that wont be written to enough to warrant concern.

If you need the space then move C:\Users (or just My Documents) and large installations inside Program Files off to secondary storage, otherwise make the most of it & 'njoy the speed.
 
Backups, music and video files and programs that I know I'm only going to use once in a while. Ideally, with the exception of the backups, you want everything on the SSD but due to size constraints you just have to prioritize what you use most often. You might want to increase the time it takes for your disks to spin down as well, otherwise you can experience an annoying delay.
 
I've been experimenting, and moving My Documents, Downloads and all my games off of my HD. Basically, I want to downsize my boot drive for now, and possibly upgrade to an SSD when the Intel refresh hits.

I discovered, that you can mount hard drives in NTFS folders :D Pretty cool. So I have a hard drive mounted in a Games folder in my Program Files (x86), but it's actually on another drive. Found it pretty cool.

What's a good, reasonably fast non-SSD hard drive. I have read that the 640GB WD Caviar Blacks are pretty good. I have a 1TB one currently, but I want to make that my Steam and games drive. Managed to get my C: drive down to about 80GB or so currently, which is actually all my programs and my AppData etc still on it.
 
All my media is on a server and my Users folders have been redirected to my DC. I usually keep my Steam games on my SSD since I only have one or two installed at a time.

All my applications are on the SSD too.

I keep my Pagefile on the SSD since it benefits from the extra speed. I don't mind giving up that much space, but if I had more than 6GB RAM I would probably lower the size of the Pagefile.
 
Games, Music, Movies, Pictures, Downloads, Backups are all on a secondary drive.
Common apps such as PSP and Office are on the SSD, page file on SSD :)
 
just windows and program files on SSD, games has its own partition on
HD and mydocuments on the rest of the HD.

would be much easier if windows allowed setting the Users folder to a partition at install.
 
deadite66 said:
just windows and program files on SSD, games has its own partition on
HD and mydocuments on the rest of the HD.

would be much easier if windows allowed setting the Users folder to a partition at install.
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Yeah, would be wouldn't it. I'm quite happy with what I've managed to reduce mine down to. 75GB used on my hard drive currently, that's all my programs, User data of course, and Windows also of course.

Got all my games on another drive, and Documents, Downloads, Videos etc the lot, linked via the libraries to another drive. I love it :D

Going to swap out the hard drives soon (when I can be bothered to reinstall Windows), and get a smaller HD for Windows (currently on my 1TB) but I want a small fast mechanical, as I want to sit it out for the new Intel SSDs.
 
Media, Games, Documents.

I tried installing office etc on the second HD but had a few issues with powerpoint losing a dll so when I did a fresh install I put all programs except games onto the SSD. Currently using 30gb of the 80gb SSD and there are a number of big programs so shouldn't have a problem unless you are getting a very small drive.

p.s. In win7 you can set your my documents/download folders to shortcut to your second HD which makes life easier :)
 
I just upgraded over the weekend to a SSD, I have all programs & games on the Samsung F3 1tb, My Docs on another drive.
 
The programs would definitely do better on the SSD mate :p I'm liking having all my games and documents on another drive. Will be great for reinstalling Windows :) I started doing this to see how easy it would be to do, and it's pretty nice. Come Intel refresh I might join the SSD lot :p Quite surprised how little space everything takes up with Windows and my programs!
 
I've got xp in a 15gb partition, and a 5gb fat32 partition with documents and general data on. Programs all on c: drive. Done no ssd related things with it at all.

Remaining 10 gb is debian, which uses ram for logs, /tmp and some of /var.
 
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