Clone HDD to a SSD, then what to use the HDD for?

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I have a tower PC with Windows 7 64bit Home Premium, with 1 Seagate 500GB HDD as C drive, 97GB used & a CD-ROM drive. I am wondering if I should get a new internal 500GB SSD.

This is my question, what are you people who installed an SSD as the primary boot drive doing with your HDD?

From what I see, the options I have for my HDD after a clone of it to an SSD, is to either remove the HDD from the computer and store it on a shelf, or Format the HDD as drive E and use it for backups. Any other options I missed?
 
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No.
Personally, I recommend a clean install on the new SSD. But if you must clone to the new drive, go for it.

After everything is working, here's how you can easily direct things to save to the HDD-
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html
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Can the clone software be used to just move over to the SSD what I want? Like the System Reserve partition of the HDD and Windows folders?
Then use the HDD for personal files like pictures and music as you say.
 
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i switched to SSD only a couple of days ago
i migrated my C drive i.e. OS, installed softwares and games on the SSD
the rest i.e. photos, movies, music etc stays in the HDD

the OS and softwares and games are the things which are actually able to take advantage of an SSD
they open and load faster
 
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No.
Personally, I recommend a clean install on the new SSD. But if you must clone to the new drive, go for it.

After everything is working, here's how you can easily direct things to save to the HDD-
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html
 
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yes that is possible
the ' Acronis True Image 2014' lets you do that
and also the 'Paragon Migrate OS to SSD ' will migrate only your C drive ans the system reserve files without giving you a choice to migrate other partitions

with the Acronis however you have complete flexibility about which files to include in the migration you can even include and exclude folders and subfolders in the drive
 
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