What to do with my 20GB SSD?

[driverofLYN274]

Hello,

I am working off of an HP Elite 8300 SFF PC (Windows 7 Pro 64-bit) with the only modification being the addition of an Nvidia GTX 750Ti. I have recently discovered that I have a 20GB (18.6GB visible, 14.6GB free) SSD that doesn't seem to be used for any system files or backup data. Besides that I have a 500GB HDD that seems to have all my system files as well as a backup partition.

My question is: how can I leverage the extra hardware in my system to boost performance if at all?

I don't have any recovery disks, so migrating the OS might not be the best choice and Intel's RST doesn't seem to be doing anything but stealing system resources.

Thank you in advance!

 

[digitaldoc]

20 GB is pretty small to run an OS, so I would not recommend that.

The only use would be to load software that is frequently used to the SSD which should speed the load times of it. MS Office or an image editing program would benefit from the faster SSD.

 

[InvalidError]

Use it as the swapfile drive. You could also use it for Microsoft's ReadyBoost which tracks your most frequently used software, lumps related files together and preloads them on boot so your most frequently used stuff loads faster.