Cleanup on SSD Boot Disk

[SlipperyPete]

Recently ordered a Vertex 3 120GB and didn't do my homework enough. Just now learning my Marvel 9128 is going to bottleneck the drive.

My real question though is whether I should reinstall windows on the new drive, or leave it on my 30GB vertex 3? The reason I ask is because the boot drive tends to fill up with junk (users directory) and with the 30GB drive it can only fill up so much. The performance of the 30GB Vertex is still very good and reinstalling is a pain.

How do people manage to keep their boot drives free of temp files and bull$#t? Everytime I go in and clean it out it fills back up in a matter of weeks.

 

[Forceman]

Win 7? I've never had a problem with it filling up with stuff.

I'd move the OS to the new drive, you bought it, you might as well use it.

 

[jwcalla]

You should be able to move it without doing a reinstall?

Otherwise you could probably schedule a weekly task to empty temp directories or whatever.

 

[spravtek]

When I install my computers with Windows 7 OS on an SSD, and I have the luxury to have a normal hdd as second drive for data I use sysprep to automatically move the c:\Users and c:\programdata to this data drive. Much like what is explained here (top answer): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ifferent/565f16a5-e5ed-43c9-8422-4f56aebb296e

 

[Aesma]

I don't see the point of moving files that are accessed constantly. But I don't use the default folders for my static data, so those go on hard drives. As for the system drive filling up, it depends on what you do, if you're constantly installing programs and stuff, yes it will fill up, and 30GB seems way too small for 7.

I never reinstall, my 7 has gone from an old HDD to a new HDD (at that point it was not my main system, which had an SSD but with XP) to an old SSD to a new SSD. Each time I did a clone.