Whats the point of SSD if you do not put scratch file on it?
Your apps will start fast but working with them will be as same as with normal magnetic drives as your scratch is on magnetic drive.
Also 60Gb SSD is too small for new OS's, buy at least 120Gb or more.
You should do next if you want to optimize your system for working with SSD drive:
- ■ Use Windows 7 (8), it automatically switches off a lot of disk write functions for SSD drives, like last access time and similar (and you don't care about it). Google to see what else you might switch off to ensure long life of SSD drive.
■ Buy a lot of memory (32GB) so that all programs can work normally.
■ Buy UPS to do not have power failures while writing something on disk.
■ And use SSD disk as scratch disk, but limit scratch size to lets say 1gb max.
SSD Disks have 1000000 writes per cell. SSD disk it self knows the number of writes to cells, and automatically moves files to spread eaqually writes over all cells. So your static data (as you think) is not static at all, it moves around automatically without your knowing. So its important to have UPS. Otherwise you trust your power company too much, and you are doomed to be proven wrong.
■ 2nd most important thing about SSD disks is never to fill it above 50% of its full size. For example if you have SSD 250 GB, you should max to 125GB, and don't use above that size because of automatic background file repositioning. Unfortunetly Windows 7 takes alot of space, but fortunately a lot of that is installations/update backup files so you can revert to previous version. You can google for such directories in Windows 7(8), and move them to magnetic drive and use MKLINK /J dos command to link its content to its original locations. I have relocated :■ Windows\Installer
■ Windows\SoftwareDistribution
■ MSOCache
DO NOT move any SxS folders, or you will degrade performance of your applications start time.
■ And most important thing is after 2 years of usage of SSD disk buy new one. Make clone of you original disk. You can sell old one, or not, your choice. This is important to ensure that your disk wont fail, and you wont loose any of data. This rule applies also for magnetic drives, unfortunately clone on magnetic disks will work a lot slower.
Above setup should ensure fastest HDD responses, and produce long life of your SSD disk.
Having scratch file on other drive wont produce desired effect so do not move it, just size it down.
My W7 performs full boot in 7 seconds, recover from sleep in 4 seconds (but that might be also response of my monitor who knows). All times are until I see login screen.
TIP: if you feel your OS is using too much of RAM memory send it to Sleep, and wake it up immediately. That should free some of memory used for caching files in memory.