What Should I Put On My SSD?

[TasteOfTheTech]

Hello TechTips Community,

When I bought my computer, it came with a 1TB hard drive with a 24GB SSD (Hybrid Drive). The only thing on the SSD was McAfee Bloatware (lovely) and a few drivers. I got rid of the McAfee, so I'm left with my drivers on the SSD (not many, just the essentials). My question I have for you guys is: what should I put on my SSD? I've noticed my computer getting quite slow when loading things at times as well as a slow startup when restarting and wanted to boost my speed. I've heard things from "Put your OS on the SSD" to "Put all your drivers on the SSD", etc. If I should put my operating system on my SSD, how should I go about doing so? Because if I just "move" my OS to the SSD, wouldn't that confuse the computer and it might not know where the OS location is if I do so? For example: If I move a song from my desktop and open it in iTunes, and then move the song to "Documents", iTunes gets confused and doesn't know where the song is. I'm afraid that's what will happen if I move my operating system over.

 

Thanks For the Help!

~TOTT

 

 

What I have so far:

In "driver" folder:

[Jade]

This is easily one of the easiest questions that people ask; hell, it should be common sense.

Windows and frequently used applications.

[TasteOfTheTech]

This is easily one of the easiest questions that people ask; hell, it should be common sense.

Windows and frequently used applications.

Well, yes, but this doesn't answer the second question of how I should go about doing so. Would you literally just "move" the Windows folder over to the SSD? I'm sorry if this is also common sense, but I've very caution when it comes to my computer.

 

Thanks for the reply,

~TOTT

[Timmy-P]

Well, yes, but this doesn't answer the second question of how I should go about doing so. Would you literally just "move" the Windows folder over to the SSD? I'm sorry if this is also common sense, but I've very caution when it comes to my computer.

 

Thanks for the reply,

~TOTT

 

You can use this little program to help you do that:

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

 

And pretty much, any programs that are used frequently, or could benefit from the speed:  Content creation/editing, like Photoshop or Sony Vegas, some games to cut down on loading times (Open-world games might benefit from texture streaming, citation needed), etc.

[Arty]

if u move the winows folder you did abouloute nothing, thiers hidden files on the c drive,

so cloning software, or fresh install

[Speedbird]

Hello TechTips Community,

When I bought my computer, it came with a 1TB hard drive with a 24GB SSD (Hybrid Drive). The only thing on the SSD was McAfee Bloatware (lovely) and a few drivers. I got rid of the McAfee, so I'm left with my drivers on the SSD (not many, just the essentials). My question I have for you guys is: what should I put on my SSD? I've noticed my computer getting quite slow when loading things at times as well as a slow startup when restarting and wanted to boost my speed. I've heard things from "Put your OS on the SSD" to "Put all your drivers on the SSD", etc. If I should put my operating system on my SSD, how should I go about doing so? Because if I just "move" my OS to the SSD, wouldn't that confuse the computer and it might not know where the OS location is if I do so? For example: If I move a song from my desktop and open it in iTunes, and then move the song to "Documents", iTunes gets confused and doesn't know where the song is. I'm afraid that's what will happen if I move my operating system over.

 

Thanks For the Help!

~TOTT

 

 

What I have so far:

In "driver" folder:

Windows and your main programs.

[DirkW]

Hello TechTips Community,

When I bought my computer, it came with a 1TB hard drive with a 24GB SSD (Hybrid Drive). The only thing on the SSD was McAfee Bloatware (lovely) and a few drivers. I got rid of the McAfee, so I'm left with my drivers on the SSD (not many, just the essentials). My question I have for you guys is: what should I put on my SSD? I've noticed my computer getting quite slow when loading things at times as well as a slow startup when restarting and wanted to boost my speed. I've heard things from "Put your OS on the SSD" to "Put all your drivers on the SSD", etc. If I should put my operating system on my SSD, how should I go about doing so? Because if I just "move" my OS to the SSD, wouldn't that confuse the computer and it might not know where the OS location is if I do so? For example: If I move a song from my desktop and open it in iTunes, and then move the song to "Documents", iTunes gets confused and doesn't know where the song is. I'm afraid that's what will happen if I move my operating system over.

 

Thanks For the Help!

~TOTT

 

What I have so far "driver" folder:

 

This "drivers" folder you have is just for the installers for those drivers. It's only used once, when you install those drivers to windows, once you do that, windows actually copies those drivers somewhere else and will only load them from there. So putting this drivers folder you have have onto an SSD is absolutely useless, since windows will never touch it after you installed the drivers.

 

Also on a hybrid drive, usually the SSD is only for caching the HDD and cannot even be accessed manually. Different from that is only (AFAIK) the WD's Black² drive - which really has a usable SSD and HDD combined, but the SSDs is also much bigger (120GB).