What to install on boot drive

[benikens]

I'm about to put together my new build, and ill be running a 120gb agility 3 ssd, this will be the boot drive for win7 and i plan on dropping 1-2 games on there which i will play alot. Do people normally install utilities like firewalls/anti-virus on the bootdrive? can you even install them on a secondary drive? (i have never tried this before) i was planning on putting as little as possible on the ssd to maximize performance of the things that i do decide to be ssd worthy.

 

[Ubrales]

Your thinking is absolutely correct! Save the SSD for the OS and frequently used programs/games.

Install everything else on a secondary drive. When you save files on the secondary drive, sometimes you may run into a drive letter conflict. This can be resolved by assigning a unique drive letter such as 'M', 'N' 'P' etc. for consistency between your other computers.

 

[blackhawk1928]

Install your OS and your main programs like (anti-virus, firewall, utilities) on your SSD since they are usually tiny and installing them on another drive will defeat the purpose of an SSD as you want boot and critical programs on the SSD for best performance and fastest boot.

Also, whether your SSD is 20% used or 60% used...the performance difference will not be noticeable.

And also, you can do whatever you want on an SSD, because it will last longer than any HDD ever will anyway, many people are just paranoid about extra writes on the SSD, the SSD lives longer anyway, especially with new tools like trim.

 

[benikens]

Ok excellent! That makes me feel alot better about my plans.

 

[benikens]

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