What's the best use of storage over an SSD and a HDD

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Now, thanks to your help, I have a 250GB SDD and a 1TB HDD for my new PC build. As far as read-write speed goes how should I use this space? I want to put Windows 10 on the SDD, but should I also install my programs on the SDD, or should I put the programs on the HDD and use the SDD for all the preferences and data other than saved files? Or, does that split them too much? I want to keep all my saved files on the HDD as a best practise, because if the Windows drive ever fails all your data is on the other drive.
 
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Pretty much what USAFRet has stated.

1. OS/Frequently used programs/Preferences - SSD
2. Infrequently used programs/Media Files(music, pictures, movies etc) - HDD.

What I did was redirect (properties>location) my 'downloads', 'pictures', 'movies' & 'documents' folders to the HDD (just change c to d essentially & it'll replicate those) - that way you organize everything as you likely always did, yet all storage f the files are on (in my case) d: opposed to c:.

SSDs can fill up fast, and need a minimum 10% free to remain optimum, hence I'd recommend infrequent programs are installed there also - no sense filling up your SSD with that program you needed & used once, but didn't want to delete incase you needed it again in future.
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Pretty much what USAFRet has stated.

1. OS/Frequently used programs/Preferences - SSD
2. Infrequently used programs/Media Files(music, pictures, movies etc) - HDD.

What I did was redirect (properties>location) my 'downloads', 'pictures', 'movies' & 'documents' folders to the HDD (just change c to d essentially & it'll replicate those) - that way you organize everything as you likely always did, yet all storage f the files are on (in my case) d: opposed to c:.

SSDs can fill up fast, and need a minimum 10% free to remain optimum, hence I'd recommend infrequent programs are installed there also - no sense filling up your SSD with that program you needed & used once, but didn't want to delete incase you needed it again in future.
 
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Interesting comments in those links, as simply changing the root (C > D) has worked fine for me, and many others.

People were definitely having issues trying to move their whole 'users' folder over, but what I described worked fine for me.

@charles_i, probably best you read those linkes USAFRet has posted and follow that guide, better safe than sorry.
 
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The redirection to another location is built into the function/Library, so why not use that.
 
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