Need suggestions on optimizing programs on SSD's and HDD's

[BusyBeaverHP]

Inspired by this thread, I have a few questions about the best program allocation for SSD's and HDD's too.

By tomorrow, I will be the proud owner of an SSD, along with 5 other mechanical drives. My storage will be non-partitioned, and arranged in this way:

128 GB Crucial RealSSD C300: OS
300 GB Velociraptor: Programs like Photoshop and Firefox
2x 300 GB Velociraptors in RAID0: Steam Games, Blizzard Games, Game-Games
640 GB WD Caviar Black: Downloads, Music, Artworks
640 GB WD Caviar Black: Rarely Used Files, Archives

I'm still debating on whether Photoshop should be put on the SSD, or the Velociraptor, since (I think) Photoshop has a large sequential read segment, and will use the SSD (C Drive) for scratch disk anyway.

What about programs like Firefox? I'm sure it doesn't make much of a difference in real-time whether I put it on the HDD or SSD, but I want to hear what SSD-HDD owners have to say.

As a new owner of an SSD, if there's anything else I need to know, I'm all ears! Thanks ahead of time!

 

[Forceman]

Do you need that many drives? Did you consider using Greens instead of Blacks for the storage piece? There's nothing wrong with your plan, just seems excessive.

As far as the SSD goes, just do a fresh install from Win 7 and it'll set everything up for you (partitioning, defrag off, etc). I'd leave as many apps on the SSD as possible, to benefit from the speed, and your user files (which includes browser cache, etc). Disable hybrid sleep so you don't waste SSD space on the hiberfil.sys file. And maybe consider setting a manual page file size, again to save space.

 

[lathode]

Do you have a lot of games installed? Windows only uses ~10 gigs, That's a lot of unused, pricey space left over.

 

[Ocean]

ssd for anything you want to launch quicker. os, online fps games, photoshop, itunes, etc.

everything else that your fine with launching slow, or are uselessly big, WoW?, on the 300gig
keep in mind you can spread your steam games between two locations using windows "symlinks"

 

[tQz1]

What about programs like Firefox? I'm sure it doesn't make much of a difference in real-time whether I put it on the HDD or SSD, but I want to hear what SSD-HDD owners have to say.

Yes it does. Especially if you like to keep lots of tabs open, Firefox is MUCH faster on an SSD.