Am I Required To Have A SSD

[Lazyboy10]

I have seen many video about people saying to buy a SSD because if you do you can boot up stuff quicker. I do not understand what that means so If someone could explain what they do and why is it good. Also I might be asking a stupid question but I don't get how you use both. the Hard Drive and the SSD at the same time. Cause you install it both but when you download stuff which does it go to. do you assign where it goes when you download it or what. If I need one please explain why and what it is used for thanks.

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[SchizTech]

As to the second q: certainly, many people use both an SSD to accelerate programs and a HDD for storage. A large enough SSD to cover both needs would be quite expensive!

SSDs are far faster than HDDs. When starting the computer, you can get from a cold start to a desktop in well under a minute on an SSD, and programs loaded from one just pop right up without much delay.

 

[Lazyboy10]

Oh ok. But How would one do that exactly.

 

[bartNL]

Your overall experience will be much much better even with the cheapest ssd.
boot time, responsiveness, etc. are much better.
And you in chrome, uttorrent or whatever you can manually select download location.
You can install ssd's and hdd's both at the same time in your pc.
EDIT: if you use a smaller ssd, you can also move your libraries, documents etc, to your harddrive

 

[evan1715]

yes, ur required to have at least 240gb ssd. it's worth every penny.

u plug the ssd into the main sata port and the hard drive into the secondary one. install windows on the ssd. via "my computer" both drives are accessible.
downloads will go to the ssd but u can change settings for it to go somewhere else. logically, u can do that now, change default folder to another folder.

 

[SchizTech]

Oh ok. But How would one do that exactly.

The best way is to set Windows to place the various libraries on the HDD by changing the default locations. First you'd create those folders on the HDD (a folder called Documents, one called Downloads, others for Music, Pictures, Videos). Then if you're running 8.1 there's a section called This PC in the Explorer window, where those areas are featured on top. Right-click a library and click Properties from the menu. GO to the "Location" tab where you can browse for a new location for that folder. SO you'd change the Downloads (for example) from C:/Users/your username/Downloads to D:/Downloads and hit apply.

Do the corresponding change for each folder.

In Win 7, the corresponding changes can be done in a similar way in the left-hand navigation pane. U nder where it says "Libraries" you can change Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos (expand each library, for example Documents, then right-click the My Documents folder under the Documents library and follow the same procedure). Downloads is found under Favorites, above the Libraries on the left side pane.