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Linking SSD and HDD Question

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Jakerz

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Ok guys, plz don't rip my head off for this ><

I just finished building my first rig, I was amazed at how easy all the hardware stuff was and its running great! Now for my question.

I got a 40gb SSD for my OS (Windows 7) and World of Warcraft, I have both of those on and its running off the SSD right now fine (its insanely fast lol). I also have a 1TB WD Caviar Black HDD that I want to put all my music, pictures, videos etc on. How do I go about setting this up? Would it be like a Master/Slave setup?

Any link to a decent how to guide on this subject?

Jake
 
Set your documents, music, etc.. libraries all to be located on the 1Tb drive.

I liked it better on XP, where you could just right click on the "My Documents" folder from the desktop and ("move")change the location. And nearly everything else was located in there, like My Music, My Pics, etc.
 
Hmm, Ok... but how do I get programs like iTunes to install on the 1TB vs the SSD with Windows on it? or is there not a way?

Jake
 
Jakerz said:
Hmm, Ok... but how do I get programs like iTunes to install on the 1TB vs the SSD with Windows on it? or is there not a way?

Jake
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Usually just choose a custom install and point it at the drive you want it on.

The thing is, if you do that, then reinstall your OS at some point, most of your applications may not work anymore because all the registry info they need will be gone as it's on the OS drive.

Also, some programs still have issues if not installed on the OS drive sometimes. They just expect to be on C:
 
Limahl said:
The thing is, if you do that, then reinstall your OS at some point, most of your applications may not work anymore because all the registry info they need will be gone as it's on the OS drive.

Also, some programs still have issues if not installed on the OS drive sometimes. They just expect to be on C:
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Agreed with Limahl - some apps will just plain refuse to work anywhere but on C.

Second, you run more of a risk of a major PITA if one of your drives ever crashes if you have the apps installed to a different drive. Instead of having all information isolated on C, you risk having to reinstall everything if you lose your storage drive or your system drive.

Ideally, you'd install everything to C and take an image based backup (Acronis True Image or some other similar software). Store that image on your storage drive. That way if you lose the SSD at some point, you can just deploy the image back from your storage drive. If you lose your storage drive, at least your apps will continue to function until you fix the problem with that drive as well.

Obviously you _can_ do it the way you first described by splitting installs to various disks, as long as you know the potential annoyance you'll have to deal with in the future and have a plan to deal with it.

Enjoy the new SSD. They are awesome. :)
 
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