Question Windows Library Folder Storage Question

[bikemanI7]

Should I Manually Change Storage Location?

For Desktop Folder, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures & Videos Folders off Windows Boot NvMe SSD and direct them to store on 4TB WD Black Hard drive in like E:\Users\Documents & so on

Will I see better performance leaving Documents, Downloads, and such as Default?

Is there downsides to this?
Will it lead to too many writes to SSD if i don't change that directory?
Still Nervous SSD user

Worry wort to the extreme here i think, been with this same setup for about 7 years now---but wonder if its best way i got it setup or not

 

[USAFRet]

Should I Manually Change Storage Location?

No.

Years ago, that used to be a thing.
I used to do it, even wrote a tutorial on it.

Today, Windows and applications have gotten really good at managing multiple drives and locations.

For your applications, almost all of them will default save to the last place you saved.

For instance...save a Word doc to somewhere on the E.
Next Word doc you save, it will default to that location on the E.

In your browsers, you can change the default save location to wherever.
In my FireFox and Chrome, the default save location is a whole other system...a sub/subfolder on my NAS.

 

[USAFRet]

Will I see better performance leaving Documents, Downloads, and such as Default?

Performance won't change either way.
Complexity and fail potential will.

 

[bikemanI7]

Oh ok Thank you!