SSHD vs HDD+SSD

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The time has come to upgrade my 5 year old 500GB 5400RPM Caviar Black hard drive. It's making all sorts of funky sounds and has really started to slow down my whole PC. So my question is, should I get the Seagate 1TB desktop SSHD or a Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD? The HDD+SSD would be about $40 more than the SSHD. I would put about 60GB of games, the OS, and small but frequently used programs on the SSD. Is it worth the extra $40?
 
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Install Windows with only the SSD installed. This is to avoid Windows placing a boot loader on the hard drive.

As for programs, most programs allow you to chose an install location. I think you will be placing most stuff on the ssd :)

As for keeping 64 bit and 32 bit separated, you do not have to when you custom install them on the other drive. You can if you wish, but I have not seen a need to. Windows keeps them separate to avoid issues(and since some programs have a 32 bit and 64 bit version).

Steam allows you to make a game library on the hard drive to allow you to install games that are too big or do not get a boost from the ssd on the hard drive without any fancy tricks. You will see this option every time you...
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nukemaster

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Since having an SSD + HDD gives you FULL control over what gets the extra speed, I would go that route.

After all it would suck to see the SSHDD want to place your favorite music album into its limited space(ssd portion).

If you go the SSD + HDD router you can also change the location of all your "user" folders like documents/desktop/ect to the hard drive since these things do not need the speed.

You can also use Intels caching if you wanted the SSD + HDD to act like a sshdd with more ssd(but when I last check it, it maxed out at 64 gigabytes.), but again. being in full control of the ssd seems like the best bet to me.
 
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First thing

Install Windows with only the SSD installed. This is to avoid Windows placing a boot loader on the hard drive.

As for programs, most programs allow you to chose an install location. I think you will be placing most stuff on the ssd :)

As for keeping 64 bit and 32 bit separated, you do not have to when you custom install them on the other drive. You can if you wish, but I have not seen a need to. Windows keeps them separate to avoid issues(and since some programs have a 32 bit and 64 bit version).

Steam allows you to make a game library on the hard drive to allow you to install games that are too big or do not get a boost from the ssd on the hard drive without any fancy tricks. You will see this option every time you install a game on steam now.

If you have a program that is stubborn you can use this method. do NOT use this method to try to move parts of Windows as it can cause issues.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/294557-32-guide-move-software-games-drive-reinstalling

As for all your user folders, you can just goto c : \ your name \ and right click folders like desktop ect and choose a new location.'

So you may have a setup like this

c : windows and games
d : with some folders like Games, Programs, and Your name(or login. just do not do like me. my documents folder is actually a hard drive. this has worked for me, but If i was to start over, I would have used a folder with subfolders for desktop/documents/ect)

An alternative way to move ALL user folders and appdata over to the hard drive would be this. I have not used this method but other forum users have. Since I have had multi drive setups since before this method was common I just never moved over to this idea as it will not work for me personally(Some of my systems now have the users folders in a network location[makes backup much more easy since all my personal files are in one central location] and not local. I plan to have this for all my future systems).

If you have any other questions, just ask.
 
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