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Hi everyone, and Happy New Year!
I decided today I would install my new SSD, and everything is working out good so far. I am feeling the increased speed already coming from a hard drive.
This is my new SSD. Click here.
I do have some questions however, because SSDs still do not make a lot of sense to me, and Tom's Hardware has never let me down before!
1. I've looked at a few tweaking guides on the internet. I've done a lot of things so far, but is there anything super important that I should do now?
I mean, is there something commonly missed when people first go tweaking their SSDs? (IE: enabling TRIM, which I have done).
2. Ideally, what should be installed to the SSD?
I don't photo or video edit. I do some programming and school work on the side, and a lot of computer gaming. I mainly play a few games. From what I understand, I can have my main operating system on my SSD, and all of my most frequently accessed applications, ranging from video games to things like benchmarking tools, and all that good stuff. If I'm doing this wrong, let me know. I just want to be able to make sure I don't screw this up!
3. Will playing games fairly frequently and for long periods of time produce lots of reads and writes?
Again, from what I understand, I should be reducing reads and writes to the SSD. Will playing games affect this a ton? Should I be careful not to... uh... "overgame"? Or am I not understanding this properly?
4. I've set my old downloads folder, as well as my documents, pictures, videos, and music to my old hard drive. Should I worry about the TEMP and AppData folders?
I remember reading an article that you don't want these two folders on your SSD because they are just overall bad and start to take up space. Is this the case? Should I just leave them where they are?
5. In relation to my last question, will running utilities like CCleaner to clean up any unnecessary garbage from my SSD harm anything?
To elaborate, will running this program reduce the lifespan of my SSD? Is it generally okay to use on a daily basis? I just want to keep the SSD as clean as possible, and have it last a long time. I guess what I'm really trying to ask is: Does CCleaner eat up a lot of reads and writes?
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That's all the questions I have for now. I'm normally pretty educated on general PC components, but SSDs are a bit of a mystery to me.
I greatly appreciate any replies. If any more information is needed from me, I will be more than happy to cooperate!
Thanks, and again Happy New Year.
-Sun
I decided today I would install my new SSD, and everything is working out good so far. I am feeling the increased speed already coming from a hard drive.
This is my new SSD. Click here.
I do have some questions however, because SSDs still do not make a lot of sense to me, and Tom's Hardware has never let me down before!
1. I've looked at a few tweaking guides on the internet. I've done a lot of things so far, but is there anything super important that I should do now?
I mean, is there something commonly missed when people first go tweaking their SSDs? (IE: enabling TRIM, which I have done).
2. Ideally, what should be installed to the SSD?
I don't photo or video edit. I do some programming and school work on the side, and a lot of computer gaming. I mainly play a few games. From what I understand, I can have my main operating system on my SSD, and all of my most frequently accessed applications, ranging from video games to things like benchmarking tools, and all that good stuff. If I'm doing this wrong, let me know. I just want to be able to make sure I don't screw this up!
3. Will playing games fairly frequently and for long periods of time produce lots of reads and writes?
Again, from what I understand, I should be reducing reads and writes to the SSD. Will playing games affect this a ton? Should I be careful not to... uh... "overgame"? Or am I not understanding this properly?
4. I've set my old downloads folder, as well as my documents, pictures, videos, and music to my old hard drive. Should I worry about the TEMP and AppData folders?
I remember reading an article that you don't want these two folders on your SSD because they are just overall bad and start to take up space. Is this the case? Should I just leave them where they are?
5. In relation to my last question, will running utilities like CCleaner to clean up any unnecessary garbage from my SSD harm anything?
To elaborate, will running this program reduce the lifespan of my SSD? Is it generally okay to use on a daily basis? I just want to keep the SSD as clean as possible, and have it last a long time. I guess what I'm really trying to ask is: Does CCleaner eat up a lot of reads and writes?
..
..
That's all the questions I have for now. I'm normally pretty educated on general PC components, but SSDs are a bit of a mystery to me.
I greatly appreciate any replies. If any more information is needed from me, I will be more than happy to cooperate!
Thanks, and again Happy New Year.
-Sun
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