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Polling SSD Users

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Wingnut225

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I am building a new PC and was curious about what people are using their SSD's for. Are you using it for just the OS? Other programs/games? Just a scratch disk for Photoshop?

Thanks for you input!
 
I use a ocz vertex 3 240gb for my cdrive and run windows on it. I have a raided pair of WDC black 1TB's for my gaming and program drive. However I would run critical applications on C for the throughput.
 
I put the OS.along with those programs I want to run the fastest on mySSD.
Everything else goes on a HD or eSata drive.
 
im installing my first ssd's this weekend. using 2x80gig intel's in raid-0. going to put the os and a couple games on it. everything else will go on the 2 300 gig raptors in raid-0.
 
I'm actually using SSD caching because I want to store more stuff on my boot drive and high capacity SSD is too expensive. I use a 1.5TB drive with a OCZ 64GB Synapse drive (32GB caching). I find it great because it makes whatever I use more often faster. It made a hugh difference and the performance of my main rig using this drive for caching performs just as well as a 80GB Corsair SSD I have in another system. Well most of the time it does. Until 500+GB SSD's are <$250 I will stick with caching for my main rig.
 
Same as the majority: OS and programs. Even games. But I use steam mover to relocate games I don't play often. Media and archiving is on spinning disk.
 
Just the OS and cache on mine as well as small base programs. Everything else goes on the raided mechanical drives. Some games show improvement when on the ssd, but I didn't feel it was worth taking up the space. Plus it wasn't too fun being the first person to load into the game and having to wait.
 
OS and most applications on my SSD, such as Windows, development tools/applications, Steam, games, etc. I have another hard drive (mechanical) that stores media files.
 
Got windows 7, MS office, Adobe, firefox, photoshop, and a few other core program on my 64GB SSD, have maybe 15 GB left. Whatever games I'm playing most currently (in this case, MW3 and NFS the run) I slap on my SSD, but typically once i'm done with a singleplayer game I'm pretty much done with it for good, so in a week or so NFS will be off the SSD, to be replaced by either Anno 2070 or Assassins Creed.
 
I only have a 64 gig SSD. I have Win7 Ultimate, Office 2010, sandboxie, firefox and current game on the SSD with everything else on the slow drive.

Junction Link Magic is a great program for moving directories over to the slow drive and creating a link to avoid reinstalling.
 
OS, games, and adobe apps.

The best performance increase I've found in years has been this SSD setup.
Just unbelievable how apps just snap open and windows boots and shuts down in seconds.
 
OS + Programs + Currently post-processing photos/libraries + BF3 and SWTOR (soon!) on my SSD. Basically the most frequently used stuff.
 
Same as most, OS, programs and games I play most often.

I didn't know about that steam mover.. Isn't there a program like that, that can work with everything just not steam games? I read about it once, but I forgot what it was, if anyone knows, Thanks.
 
Small SSD.

Used for OS, any application that loads on boot, and frequently used programs (browsers, etc.).
 
All programs get installed to my 128GB M4 SSD. All movies, music and any downloaded files gets saved to 1TB black drive.

I still have about 90 GBs after everything.
 
I only have an SSD in this pc, no HDD at all. All that it means to me, or should I say the only drawback, is that I can only have about five games installed at once (which is fine by me).
 
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