So what exactly do you put on your SSD?

[MegaDave91]

I feel totally noob for asking this, but all my life I've always had one drive in my computers and there was only one place to download/put everything, until now.

 

I've done a clean install of Win 7 on the SSD, I know I have to do that much. What goes on the SSD and what stays on the harddrive? Do I have to install things like anti virus on the SSD, or will it still work on the harddrive only?

 

Thanks

[DudeWazap]

I would just recommend to put the programs that you use frequently in your SSD and the rest on your HDD.

[Capitalist Jesus]

Nothing, because I don't have an SSD.

[Assassin]

I feel totally noob for asking this, but all my life I've always had one drive in my computers and there was only one place to download/put everything, until now.

 

I've done a clean install of Win 7 on the SSD, I know I have to do that much. What goes on the SSD and what stays on the harddrive? Do I have to install things like anti virus on the SSD, or will it still work on the harddrive only?

 

Thanks

ON THE SSD

The OS

Some programs especially startup programs.

Some fucked up games that refuse to run from secondary drives. 

Anti Virus so PC boots faster

 

Hard Drives

Games

Music 

Personal Files

 

Basically anything that you think requires very fast access goes into the SSD.

[needmorewood]

OS programs and that one game that u play over the years and no matter what u came back to cause u realize its the one thats always there for you, waiting..... i mean what?

[Bluethulhu]

I have a 256GB SSD, I have OS + frequently used programs (AV, browsers, Steam, Blender, VMware, Photoshop, Foobar), and frequently played multiplayer games (Battlefield 3, TF2, DayZ) on it currently. I also use it if I need really fast storage temporarily, I'll put it on the desktop. Everything else (Music, 95% of Steam games, rarely used programs, and most documents) go on my 3TB hard drive.

[SixtyDashOne]

OS, programs, and BF4 is all I have on mine. Everything else (including all other games) goes on the 2tb mechanical drive. I put BF4 on the SSD because I can get into a new map at the start of a round quicker than like 90% of everybody else.

[MegaDave91]

Alright, thanks gents.

[orangecat]

I put everything except downloads folder and games.

[aselwyn1]

i have just windows, my main steam install ( games on a secondary drive via a virtual folder to my other drive), office, chrome, geforce experience, foobar2000, VLC and thats it the rest of my documents and programs are on the other drive

[WoodenMarker]

Windows and all your programs.

[MegaDave91]

So once I have everything I want on my SSD, I can erase my harddrive and just put back what I want on the harddrive? Right now I have an OS on both, which is unnecessary.

[pareshtiwari]

Windows software installations and Games that I play daily. Media stuff on HDD.

[CarDesinr]

I would put OS and Main programs

[voaz]

OS, Programs, Battlefield 4, Skyrim.

[Applepienation]

OS, Chrome, Antivirus, Planetside 2. Everything else I put on my 500gb drive.

[Stonep11]

I feel totally noob for asking this, but all my life I've always had one drive in my computers and there was only one place to download/put everything, until now.

I've done a clean install of Win 7 on the SSD, I know I have to do that much. What goes on the SSD and what stays on the harddrive? Do I have to install things like anti virus on the SSD, or will it still work on the harddrive only?

Thanks

I fit everything on my SSD, but I would say frequently used programs, maybe games, etc. Your HDD should have the media files, irregularly accessed files, etc.

[LogicalDrm]

OS, drivers, some system software, BF3/4.

[roberto++]

I use to use a small 60GB SSD as a storage device for my virtual machines, minecraft server and ubuntu desktop.