SSHD boot drive over SSD?

[EIijah]

So I have a 2TB SSHD and a 128Gig SSD currently the 128Gig is my boot drive, but can be kind of annoying having to redirect everything to the second drive, I know that SSHD's boot in similar times of SSD's. Would it be better to use it as my boot drive and just put things like a few games on the SSD?

[ShadowCaptain]

So I have a 2TB SSHD and a 128Gig SSD currently the 128Gig is my boot drive, but can be kind of annoying having to redirect everything to the second drive, I know that SSHD's boot in similar times of SSD's. Would it be better to use it as my boot drive and just put things like a few games on the SSD?

 

I would just keep your set up as it is,, i mean how often are you installing programs for it to be a big hassle? I have steam etc defaulted to install to my mechanical drives and I only choose the odd few to install to SSD etc

 

That or get a bigger SSD , i find 128gb ones hard to recommend with  the size of programs and games these days

[ozziestig]

Have you tried changing the default install location.

Here is a site that shows you how.

[EIijah]

I would just keep your set up as it is,, i mean how often are you installing programs for it to be a big hassle? I have steam etc defaulted to install to my mechanical drives and I only choose the odd few to install to SSD etc

 

That or get a bigger SSD , i find 128gb ones hard to recommend with  the size of programs and games these days

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[Captain_WD]

So I have a 2TB SSHD and a 128Gig SSD currently the 128Gig is my boot drive, but can be kind of annoying having to redirect everything to the second drive, I know that SSHD's boot in similar times of SSD's. Would it be better to use it as my boot drive and just put things like a few games on the SSD?

 

Hey Elijah,

 

I would second my fellow Captain's comment. Having a pure SSD as a boot drive would be a better idea and simply redirecting everything else to the SSHD should give you more benefits compared to having the SSHD as a boot drive. 

Using the opposite setup might fill up the SSD portion of the hybrid drive quite a lot and leave less room for programs that are installed on it so they can boot/start faster. Starting a game/program off the SSD would still require some files from your system partition to start and this is limited by the speed of the HDD portion of the SSHD, so they might in fact start slower.

 

Captain_WD.