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500gb HDD with 120gb caching SSd or 120gb boot ssd with 500gb secondary HDD for my laptop

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  1. 1. Should I stick with the SSD as a boot drive or use the 120gb ssd as a caching drive

    • Stay with the SSD as your boot device. You may have trouble keeping your storage from filling up but the speed is worth it.
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    • Use the SSD as a cache. You will still get better speeds than just the HDD and you won't struggle with storage issues like you are now
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In my laptop, I recently threw in a 120gb msata SSD and used that as the boot drive. I have used the 500gb HDD that came with my laptop as extra storage for games, personal files, and adobe creative cloud programs. However, I have trouble keeping my SSD from filling up. I have all my libraries on my HDD and try to keep my SSD with as much free space as I can. However, Visual Studio uses up a lot of it. I try too keep programs I use a lot like Chrome, spotify and Discord on the SSD for faster speed with all my productivity stuff like adobe creative cloud software on the HDD. I don't mind losing some boot time because I rarely shut down because of I habit I have created from using an HDD. If I were to switch to using my SSD as a cache, would I still need to wait for the computer to warm up to use my programs, How badly would performance be affected and will I still have better boot time than just a regular HDD?

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PC 1(Lenovo S400 laptop): 

CPU: i3-3217u

SSD: 120gb Super Cache mSATA SSD

HDD: Random seagate 5400rpm 500gb HDD

RAM: 8GB Crucial DDR3-SODIMM

OS: Windows 10 education

 

PC 2(2014 Mac Mini):

CPU: i5-4260u

HDD: 5400rpm 500gb

RAM: 4gb DDR3 (soldered on :( )

OS: MacOS Sierra/Windows 10 pro via bootcamp

 

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Keeping the 120GB as boot drive will be faster.

 

You should be able to tell Visual Studio to store its library on the HDD.

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3 minutes ago, Energycore said:

You should be able to tell Visual Studio to store its library on the HDD.

I can do that? How?!

"You think your Commodore 64 is really neato! What kind of chip you got in there a Dorito?" -Weird Al Yankovic, All about the pentiums

 

PC 1(Lenovo S400 laptop): 

CPU: i3-3217u

SSD: 120gb Super Cache mSATA SSD

HDD: Random seagate 5400rpm 500gb HDD

RAM: 8GB Crucial DDR3-SODIMM

OS: Windows 10 education

 

PC 2(2014 Mac Mini):

CPU: i5-4260u

HDD: 5400rpm 500gb

RAM: 4gb DDR3 (soldered on :( )

OS: MacOS Sierra/Windows 10 pro via bootcamp

 

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2 minutes ago, AA-RonRosen said:

I can do that? How?!

I'm not familiar with the program but there's gotta be a way. Almost all programs have a way to move their files storage around.

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You can check out the old one that gave joy to so many across the land here

 

Computer having a hard time powering on? Troubleshoot it with this guide. (Currently looking for suggestions to update it into the context of <current year> and make it its own thread)

Computer Specs:

Spoiler

Mathresolvermajig: Intel Xeon E3 1240 (Sandy Bridge i7 equivalent)

Chillinmachine: Noctua NH-C14S
Framepainting-inator: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid

Attachcorethingy: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3

Infoholdstick: Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1333

Computerarmor: Silverstone RL06 "Lookalike"

Rememberdoogle: 1TB HDD + 120GB TR150 + 240 SSD Plus + 1TB MX500

AdditionalPylons: Phanteks AMP! 550W (based on Seasonic GX-550)

Letterpad: Rosewill Apollo 9100 (Cherry MX Red)

Buttonrodent: Razer Viper Mini + Huion H430P drawing Tablet

Auralnterface: Sennheiser HD 6xx

Liquidrectangles: LG 27UK850-W 4K HDR

 

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8 minutes ago, AA-RonRosen said:

I can do that? How?!

Symlinks FTW! :)

-KuJoe

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Yeah Symbolic links, junctions exc are what your looking for for those pesky programs that won't let you pick what drive your programs will use.
Keep the SSD as a boot drive, In my little bit of experience SSD cache benefits writing more then it does reading in a real world environment. But this was a long time ago so I dunno if I am remembering wrong, or if that SSD was one of those really early and slow < 32GB SSDs from ~2010 or something.

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