explain some ssd nad hdd stuff

[SwiftXShadow]

Why do i see in the builds that a lot of people have, they  get a 1tb hdd and a 250gb ssd?

I know that the ssd is faster and expensive, but what is the 250gb of SSD for? 

[DarkBlade2117]

The SSD is,for the boot drive most of the time. Also,people throw some of there most played games / used programs in there. Not everyone gets them, some people wait until they saved up more money ect ect.

The 1TB is for mass storage like movies, music, games you play but not as often as the ones in the SSD ect ect ect.

[SwiftXShadow]

Which one do u put your windows on? or what ever OS.

 

And does the SSD really make that much of a difference for games?

[Sir Asvald]

Which one do u put your windows on? or what ever OS.

 

And does the SSD really make that much of a difference for games?

OS is on the SSD 

 

Data or anything else HDD

[SwiftXShadow]

OS is on the SSD 

 

Data or anything else HDD

 

Dosnt using a HDD or SSD that your windows isn't on slow or confuse the computer? Like if i took a memory stick and played, copying files on it or off it, then it is really slow or is that because the memory stick is slow? Where as doing anything on the harddrive where my windows is at takes only an instant to move something on it.

[JeffreyEagan]

Dosnt using a HDD or SSD that your windows isn't on slow or confuse the computer? Like if i took a memory stick and played, copying files on it or off it, then it is really slow or is that because the memory stick is slow? Where as doing anything on the harddrive where my windows is at takes only an instant to move something on it.

Not at all. SSD's can make a HUGE difference as the SSD has no moving parts, and can use the full bandwidth that SATA III can deliver.

[Sir Asvald]

Dosnt using a HDD or SSD that your windows isn't on slow or confuse the computer? Like if i took a memory stick and played, copying files on it or off it, then it is really slow or is that because the memory stick is slow? Where as doing anything on the harddrive where my windows is at takes only an instant to move something on it.

Nope. SSD makes windows loading times faster. Also loading up Applications take less time. HDD are the opposite they take forever to load 

[SwiftXShadow]

Not at all. SSD's can make a HUGE difference as the SSD has no moving parts, and can use the full bandwidth that SATA III can deliver.

So for a lot of games i use steam, and with steam i dont think i can really choose for it to put some of the low end games on the HDD and the high end ones to the SSD, how would one deal with that, since 250GB really dosn't cut it for gaming and a 1 TB ssd is quite expensive..

[TriviaBeast]

You can choose where things install and download to. On my phone so u can't walk you through it but it can be done. Videos on YouTube will work.

[Patrick3D]

Games, apps, downloads, swapfiles, not everyone has the patience to set everything to go to their 2nd drive by default. Also, a lot of programs will still use whichever drive Windows is installed on by default for their AppData and ProgramData folders, even if you install the program to the 2nd drive. I can tell you from experience that trying to get by with a 64GB SSD for Windows requires plenty of maintenance to keep space free. I would recommend 128GB at bare minimum and gladly encourage 250GB for peace of mind.