What to install on SSD

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 11:04

Hi Guys,

I currently have a 500gb HDD with everything installed, but purchasing an SSD, I was thinking of getting 120GB SSD and just installing windows and anti-virus on this and everything else on HDD, would this work?

Thanks

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 11:08

okay cool, sounds good, got any recommendations for a decent SSD that doesn't cost to much?

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 11:12

chroniclard said:
1st SSD 120gb - OS, office, visual studio, other most used apps.
2nd SSD 500gb - Games
3rd HDD - 4 tb storage/miscellaneous rarely used apps.

Would suggest a bigger SSD if you game considering the size of modern games (otherwise 120gb is fine if you have further storage).

500gb
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...olid-state-drive-mz-75e250b-eu-hd-191-sa.html

120gb
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/king...lid-state-hard-drive-sv300s37a-hd-051-ks.html

Brilliant thanks, it will be used for gaming however not sure what games yet as its for my Son, but the 500GB is cheaper than what i've been looking at thanks

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 11:18

oh yeah haha!!, didn't even notice that! lol,

Yeah well i know what he is like with Xbox he currently filled 1TB on it so :/ lol

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 11:22

Yeah well he told me he only wants to play minecraft atm however i suspect once he gets it for crimbo he gunna play alsorts and im gunna need a 1 million tb drive haha

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 14:20

Danny75 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Hynix SL308 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS120G32TND-N1A0A)= £55.99

For Windows/any anti-virus/programs (including Steam).

But when it comes to installing games, choose your HDD as the location for the games folders.

Thanks

, Appreciate it

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 15:04

Glanza said:
It'll work fine, the way you want to go about it. What you could do later is get another SSD say a 500GB purely for game installs.

I have the following setup:

120gb m.2 drive for Windows,
1TB SSD for Games,
2TB soon to be 4TB for storage.

I was thinking of just having 120GB SSD and then buying an additional 1tb HDD so would have 1.5GB of storage for games in total

Dannyr90 · 13 Sep 2017 at 15:45

Glanza said:
Works either way, If you don't mind longer load times having them on a HDD will be fine, you could look at getting a SSHD 1TB that may increase speeds slightly on games you play the most.

For now its not me who has to do the waiting haha