Win 7 user profiles & SSD's

AHarvey · 17 Mar 2014 at 04:03

Hi,

I've read in several places about the limited life span off SSDs and how moving the user profiles to another drive can help regarding things like documents, music and videos. It's just a case of creating another folder and mapping it to that drive.

My question is that for some reason a massive amount of games (and some apps) save data in to the user folders as well automatically.

Is there anyway to automatically have these read and write to another folder thinking it's my "My Documents" folder?

marc2003 · 17 Mar 2014 at 04:17

you can re-direct folders easily enough...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/redirect-folder-new-location#1TC=windows-7

but you shouldn't really concern yourself with lifespan. the drive should be obsolete long before it fails. well in theory anyway - obviously you'd keep backups of anything that is important to you because **** happens. the same thing applies to mechanical drives as well.

IronWarrior · 17 Mar 2014 at 04:24

SSD's should last 10+ or more years, don't worry about it and I hear the new ones last even longer.

KIA · 17 Mar 2014 at 11:11

marc2003 said:
but you shouldn't really concern yourself with lifespan. the drive should be obsolete long before it fails. well in theory anyway - obviously you'd keep backups of anything that is important to you because **** happens. the same thing applies to mechanical drives as well.

This.

AHarvey · 17 Mar 2014 at 12:45

excellent

Thanks once again

tom_e · 17 Mar 2014 at 12:46

The only reason I move those files off my SSD is because it would be full pretty quickly from all the stuff in them.

mrk · 18 Mar 2014 at 12:11

I've written over 9TB to my 256GB Samsung 830 series and it's still at 100% health with a projected end of life around 2023 last I checked. That's with my user profile folders on a bigger hdd.

By 2023 my PC will be replaced by something smaller, more powerful and an SSD will be old tech lol.

Tony Williams · 18 Mar 2014 at 14:14

As for life span, I believe they carry more risk than hdd as they're newer out but I would keep Win dir and userdata on SSDand not worry of dying.

atm I have C;/win 8then user data d:/ which is /users/*me 'ere*/documents then all the others, ebooks, private, wallpaper, torrent/nzb watch, backup.

I am formatting to Windows server 2012 soon though. heh

Would say though BACKUP important stuff. Also disable hdd auto spindown as it is bad for hdd's in windows to idle and power off then on.