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(SSD) On which drive do you install your software?

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As some of you know, recently bought a Crucial C300 128GB to replace my Windows (boot) drive.

With Windows, Office and Adobe CS5 on it, it's already half full.

How do you guys have yours set up?

Do you :

A) Install all programs on the SSD along with Windows because they perform better this way.
B) Install only Microsoft products on the SSD (Windows, Office, Live Essentials, etc), and everything else (like Photoshop) on a separate drive.
C) Install everything except Windows on a separate drive.
D) Other

I probably won't be installing anything nearly as big as Adobe CS5, so free space is probably not going to be an issue. Just being pro-active.
 
Everything minus media on my 64Gig Vertex2.
biggies being - Visual Studio, MingW, OpenOffice 3-4 games from Steam (DOW2, TF2, etc.,)

All music goes onto 320gigger secondary drive.
 
install the OS and programs you want to respond fast on the SSD.

install anything that doesnt need to be instant or that you dont use regularly elsewhere.

bulk data (pics, music and videos for most people) is put on a regular HDD.

optional- move your temporary folders to another drive to save SSD writes.

everyone has different needs, uses different programs, and has different amounts of space available, so its up to you to figure out what individual programs and files go on what drive. we cant do this for you.
 
I have a 90 gb ssd and I install everything but games on it.
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ghost6303 said:
optional- move your temporary folders to another drive to save SSD writes.
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Not needed. You'll never reach anywhere close to the number of writes these are rated for as long as you use it like a normal consumer would.
 
stalkerte said:
Not needed. You'll never reach anywhere close to the number of writes these are rated for as long as you use it like a normal consumer would.
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And wouldn't this adversely affect performance, anyway? I would tend to think half the benefits of using SSD in the first place, is swapping things like the temp files.
 
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