What to put on HDD and what to put on SSD?

[Evan_Koni]

so in my build im going to have a HDD and a SSD. but what should i download onto what. like what one do i put the OS on, or the games, or pictures?

 

[Jeffs0418]

OS on SSD is a no-brainer.
Give priority to everything in your "Program Files (x86)" And "Program Files" folders for SSD. Ideally all programs and games should be installed on SSD.
Bulk storage for huge files like music libraries and video can go on the more spacious (and cheaper) HDD.

 

[X79]

Up to you.

The typical thing to do, would be to put your OS on the SSD, so it loads up faster, among other things.

Games or certain programs can also be put on the SSD, if you want them to be quicker.

A heavy program like PhotoShop would be good to put on the SSD; if you don't like the long wait.

Similarly a game put on the SSD will also load its levels faster oftentimes.

For mass storage, you then use the HDD. However it all depends on the size of your SSD.

Because if your SSD is only 120GB or less for instance, you won't have much room to play with.

Windows will bring that number down to 100GB and then if you install programs, it goes down further. Especially a game.

And with SSDs, you have to keep 10 to 20% of the remaining space free, to allow for it to maintain itself.

People usually buy a 1TB HDD, such as a WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM drive and couple it with a 120GB Samsung evo drive.

I would go for the classic confirguration mentioned above. So I wouldn't save pictures on the SSD, since space is precious on it

and there's no need for those pictures to load so quickly. But I would put Windows on it and perhaps one of my favourite games

or apps. I hope this answers your question.

 

[ahnilated]

You would put the OS, and games on the SSD. You put pictures, music, swap file/hibernation file on the HDD imho. Basically the stuff that doesn't need to be ultra fast is on the HDD.

 

[boosted1g]

It all comes down to storage requirements and priority.

You obviously put the OS on the SSD, everything will suffer with windows on the HDD.
Anything on the SSD drive will be faster. so all programs you want to run faster should be on the ssd drive.
Pictures don't really matter, movies and music play at the bitrate of the file which is much less then the max speed of a hard drive so there is no gain to putting them on the SSD.
Any files like large photoshop pictures that are 1GB in size should be on the HDD just for the sake of room.