Looking for a good storage setup

[elitedental1710]

My situation is i want an ssd and hdd. The ssd contains os and hdd has other stuff.

Whats the best way to optimize performance and have both drives appear as one like C:
I still need to decide which programs drives get installed to

 

[Alabalcho]

You can make your HDD appear as separate folder on C:\ file system, no problems in that. In "Disk Management", right-click on the volume, "Change drive assignment", then mount it on an empty folder on C:\ drive. Case closed.

It's entirely different question why you want to do that.

 

[elitedental1710]

You can make your HDD appear as separate folder on C:\ file system, no problems in that. In "Disk Management", right-click on the volume, "Change drive assignment", then mount it on an empty folder on C:\ drive. Case closed.

It's entirely different question why you want to do that.

Its because i want to utilize the speed of the ssd and put programs on there not pictures and stuff

 

[USAFRet]

My situation is i want an ssd and hdd. The ssd contains os and hdd has other stuff.

Whats the best way to optimize performance and have both drives appear as one like C:
I still need to decide which programs drives get installed to

You don't want everything to be one "C" drive.
Far too much confusion, and that WILL break some things.

How large is the SSD?
What do you use this system for?

Ideally, you want the OS and all your applications on the SSD.
After that, put things where there is space.

It's easy to cause other things to default save to the HDD.
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

Steam games, you can use either or both drives.
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

 

[elitedental1710]

My situation is i want an ssd and hdd. The ssd contains os and hdd has other stuff.

Whats the best way to optimize performance and have both drives appear as one like C:
I still need to decide which programs drives get installed to

You don't want everything to be one "C" drive.
Far too much confusion, and that WILL break some things.

How large is the SSD?
What do you use this system for?

Ideally, you want the OS and all your applications on the SSD.
After that, put things where there is space.

It's easy to cause other things to default save to the HDD.
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

Steam games, you can use either or both drives.
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

Thats a good point, ssd is 128 gb hdd is 500gb
i use system for light gaming and like 6 chrome tabs at once, with spotify and skype