Ssd HDD combo
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Ideal is entirely dependant on your needs.
I prefer a 120GB ssd and a large HDD. currently 1TB. everything is installed onto my HDD. the SSD is a high speed cache for the HDD. this for me is ideal. the SSD does its thing and I do not have to even think about it except when I hear my hard drive and realize I havent heard it in a week, everything runs off the SSD for the most part.
if you are using them seperately you need to know what is most important, a larger high speed area, or a massive slower repository. determine which is the most important and do what the budget will allow
I prefer a 120GB ssd and a large HDD. currently 1TB. everything is installed onto my HDD. the SSD is a high speed cache for the HDD. this for me is ideal. the SSD does its thing and I do not have to even think about it except when I hear my hard drive and realize I havent heard it in a week, everything runs off the SSD for the most part.
if you are using them seperately you need to know what is most important, a larger high speed area, or a massive slower repository. determine which is the most important and do what the budget will allow
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OS, Adobe, and steam should be on the SSD then. the problem is that steam games are large and you will be in a cycle of moving game data to and fro the HDD to see any benefit in gaming. you could install steam and the games to the hard drive but the games will be slow then.
I would find the slowest games and load them to the SSD, the less often used games can live on the hard drive.
for the SSD to be beneficial the data needs to live there.
Fancycache (stupid name for an awesome program) would be my suggestion, use a SSD as a dedicated cache and everything will be sped up, on the fly, with no input from you. look into it.
I would suggest a 120GB ssd and the largest HDD you can afford use fancy cache and they both are now a hybrid hard drive as far as windows in concerned.
may not be applicable on your OS, you never said which you have.
I have used both and SSD caching is by far the easiest.
if you have an intel based board you may have SRT available to you. SRT is intels implementation of SSD caching. no fancycache needed if the board supports it. intel does limit SSD cache to 64GB, fancycahe will let you use entire SSD and extra RAM as cache.
I would find the slowest games and load them to the SSD, the less often used games can live on the hard drive.
for the SSD to be beneficial the data needs to live there.
Fancycache (stupid name for an awesome program) would be my suggestion, use a SSD as a dedicated cache and everything will be sped up, on the fly, with no input from you. look into it.
I would suggest a 120GB ssd and the largest HDD you can afford use fancy cache and they both are now a hybrid hard drive as far as windows in concerned.
may not be applicable on your OS, you never said which you have.
I have used both and SSD caching is by far the easiest.
if you have an intel based board you may have SRT available to you. SRT is intels implementation of SSD caching. no fancycache needed if the board supports it. intel does limit SSD cache to 64GB, fancycahe will let you use entire SSD and extra RAM as cache.
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there is a round about way of doing it, copy the game folder(from SSD to HDD), uninstall the game from steam (SSD). download and reinstall game to the new location (HDD). overwrite the game folder with the original. PITA.
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Given your usage, you might look into an SSD cache and a large HDD (e.g. 32GB SSD w/4TB HDD). This has quickly become my favorite use for SSD's. I've put a cache or hybrid drive into all my older systems, and lots more for friends/relatives.
Sandisk's Readycache is very easy to get up and running. NVELO's Dataplex seems to be the current fastest, but also a bit more complex to set up.
Sandisk's Readycache is very easy to get up and running. NVELO's Dataplex seems to be the current fastest, but also a bit more complex to set up.
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I'm trying to bring him to the fast side bro lol
dataplex is awesome but it is limited to windows 7 officially, I have heard rumors that it works in 8 but unconfirmed. Quilciri have you tried Fancycache? it is sweet. my next build will have 32 GB ram and 8-16 set for RAM caching my SSD caching my hard drive.
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