How do you configure 2 hard drives?

[Evantor0311]

I am going to have a desktop with 2 hard drives. One will be a ssd with 120gb. And one will be a mechanical drive with 1tb. I am just wondering how it would work? I am going to put my operating system on my ssd. Should I put my games on the ssd to make it faster. If I install something, would it install on your ssd or mechanical? All these questions make me have a head ache. Thank you.

 

[i7Baby]

If one is a SSD then you have one hard drive an one SSD. Not two hard drives.

A 120gb SSD won't have room to put games on. It'll format down to 110GB then make a reserve partition of 30GB then use 30GB installing Windows. And you need to keep 30GB free so it never gets full up. Else it'll come to a stop.

So put your games/apps on the HDD.

You'll also need to configure Users so they are on the HDD. Google it

 

[terry4536]

I would suggest not installing the hard drive until after you have installed the operating system on the SSD. Then add the hard drive, it makes things easier all around.

If you have many games, I would create a games partition on the hard drive for your games.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, Evantor0311!

I'd go with terry4536 on the good idea about installing the SSD first and then add the HDD (your secondary storage).
This is preferable and recommended way when installing an SSD on your computer, because you will avoid any accidental confusion of the OS with the secondary drive.
To relieve you of your headache, here are a couple of links:
How to change your default download folder location in Win 7: http://www.mstoic.com/how-to-change-downloads-folder-location-in-windows-7/
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How to change user profile location in Win 8: http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-change-user-profile-location-in-windows-8-without-registry-hack/
As for installing any software, it should always ask you about the location where you wish to save the app, so I hope we freed you of the headache for now.
I doubt you are going to have enough space on the SSD to install any high-end games, so it's better to go with the HDD on this as i7Baby suggested.

Hope this helped.
SuperSoph_WD