2nd Drive Question

[harsaphes]

Hey all. Im planning on installing a 160g SSD this weekend and doing a clean install. W7. I also have an extra HDD on the system. Should I partition the SSD and have an OS section and a program section?....or should i install my programs to the second hdd?
Also...if you install programs to a partition or second HDD, in the event of having to reinstall your OS..do the programs still function correctly?
thanks

 

[sub.mesa]

Installed programs often rely on .dll in the wnidows dir or the windows registery. So reinstalling OS often means reinstalling apps as well.

There is no reason to create multiple partitions on your SSD; it will only fragment the little free space that you have. Also, if you do not want to install any programs to the SSD; then you did you pick 160GB? What will be on there; just the OS? That would mean only 15GB in use, excluding paging/hibernation/system restore.

So i assume you would want to install your programs/games there too. What you shouldn't do, is store any user-created files (i.e. those in my documents) on your SSD; since these are accessed sequentially, they are best stored on HDDs; keep your SSD for the heavy random I/O work.

 

[harsaphes]

Ok thanks.