Half Hybrid Drive

[Maximoose]

I want to make a hybrid drive out of an SSD and an HDD without RAID (or, in other words, it not begin a full hybrid drive). Here's my theory, I want to keep everything except the pictures, videos, documents, etc. on the HDD but the OS and the programs on the SSD. Is there somehow a way to have the users pictures, etc. locked away on the HDD and have the SSD "redirect" the OS to the HDD for this information without it affecting the OS (traditional shortcuts probably wouldn't work) or any other programs? So basically it would look like everything was on a single drive, but it's not, but still so if one drive dies, the other one still has all the data?

 

Basically a hybrid drive except I get to pick what goes where and if one drive dies not all data is lost?

 

I know this is confusing, any help is appreciated.

[Godlygamer23]

You can change the location of the folders to the hard drive and then add shortcuts to the folders and place them on the SSD somewhere. I'm not sure if your idea is totally doable.

[Enderman]

1) "if one drive dies the other one still has all the data" this is called raid 1, and should not be done on a HDD+SSD

 

2) you can change library locations to different drives, just google "change windows default library location"

 

3) no you cannot make it "look like one drive" without turning the SSD into a cache for the HDD

you cannot choose what goes where when you set up a cache drive

 

4) i would not recommend doing a cache drive, just use the two drives separately with the OS and programs on the SSD, and libraries on the HDD

[Philcat101]

You can redirect folders to another drive

Put main OS and Programs on SSD, redirect the libraries (documents, pics, vids, music) to the HDD

[JebKerman]

er, sound like you just keep the drives separate, install the OS and programs on the C drive (the SSD in this instance), and data on the D or E drive (the HHD).

 

you can also redirect the "user" folders.

[Omon_Ra]

If you want your Documents, Music, Photos, Videos, etc folders from Windows just on the HDD, right click on the folder, go to 'Properties,' click the 'Location' tab, there should be a file path to the current location of whichever folder it is (Documents, Music, etc). There is a 'Move...' button, click that and create a new folder on the HDD for whichever folder you want.

[KuJoe]

symlink FTW!

[vanished]

You can either just move your pictures and so on (user folders) to the HDD, or use symlinks to make it appear that everything is still in one place while really they are on the other drive, or simply setup the HDD to mount as a certain folder rather than a drive letter.  I've never done that last one but I believe it's possible.  On Linux it is easy and common, but not so sure about windows