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My first SSD, tips please.

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Samury

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It's a Samsung 256GB SATA 3, just to get that out of the way.

I'm trying to decide what to install on it, and what to put on the HDD.

SSD definite: Windows, Photoshop suite, DX10 games or later - and I assume I'll have to put Steam here to play new stuff, even if the old is there as well - and anything with Bethesda's crappy engine, maybe even Morrowind. Stuff from CPUID

SSD maybe?: Office 2010, Firefox, Avast?

I don't think legacy games will need that much power, and Thunderbird isn't that critical. Music and the Users directory should be fine on the HDD too, I think.

Any tips from experienced users? Thanks in advance.
 
Benchmark it when you get it running. That'll help you figure out if you've got issues (non-aligned, AHCI mode).

I'd been using an SSD for a year before I realized that I didn't have it plugged into an AHCI capable port (it was still way faster than a HDD though).
 
Basically, install whatever you use most often on it. Store static files, like music, videos, photos, etc, on the HDD. You can use Steam Mover to put your old Steam games on the HDD, while leaving the new ones on the SSD.
 
Forceman said:
Basically, install whatever you use most often on it. Store static files, like music, videos, photos, etc, on the HDD. You can use Steam Mover to put your old Steam games on the HDD, while leaving the new ones on the SSD.
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Awesome advice, thanks. I really don't need that much performance from Half-Life Source and some of the others. Hell, probably not even HL2.
 
Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, the Users directory -- those would all be the first things I put on the SSD.
 
The Users directory is quite large. By moving it I can fit a couple more games on the SSD, so that's out.I get my important email on my phone, so Thunderbird is probably going to go HDD.But I could put Chrome on the SSD... And that's one vote for Office.
 
It's a 256GB SSD... honestly you could fit all of your system files on it, all of your programs, and likely all of your games unless you have some ridiculous backlog of 100+ Steam games that you want to have installed all the time for some reason.

I have a 256GB SSD, and it has the Office Suite, the entire Adobe Suite, Other Photo Software, iTunes, Browser, IM, etc, and it's only 80GB deep. I only have a few games installed like SC2 (which is a whopping 11GB), Quake 4, Bioshock... And still only 80GB deep. Having HL2 and a bunch of other stuff installed will not be a problem.

Heck my laptop only has a 250GB HD and I still would have never managed to fill the thing up if it wasn't for 80GB of RAW camera files that I need to carry for editing.

Basically the things that should go on to a standard drive in my opinion is just media. Photos, Video, Audio, etc. To reiterate with 256GB you'll have plenty of room for anything that is installed unless you're mega-game crazy...
 
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