Hello,
I recently built my first PC. I opted to go with a fast SSD to maximize performance, but I went with a smaller (126 GB) drive to save some money.
My question is this - How do I go about adding a secondary hard drive to increase storage capacity without sacrificing/bottlenecking the performance of the fast SSD? My understanding is to put the OS on the SSD, and then all other files (images, mp3, video, etc.) on the secondary drive...
I guess I'm a little unclear as to which files can all be put on the secondary drive though. I've seen people say windows profile data can be stored on the secondary drive - Is that the case? If so, what files would be beneficial to store there?
Finally - what about applications/games? Should all the program files be stored on the primary SSD? Or does Windows 7 allow you to store them on a secondary drive without sacrificing performance? How does that work?
Any feedback and advice into this matter would be greatly appreciated. I can generally follow tech jargon... but I'm still relatively new to a lot of this, so detailed instructions would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance!
I recently built my first PC. I opted to go with a fast SSD to maximize performance, but I went with a smaller (126 GB) drive to save some money.
My question is this - How do I go about adding a secondary hard drive to increase storage capacity without sacrificing/bottlenecking the performance of the fast SSD? My understanding is to put the OS on the SSD, and then all other files (images, mp3, video, etc.) on the secondary drive...
I guess I'm a little unclear as to which files can all be put on the secondary drive though. I've seen people say windows profile data can be stored on the secondary drive - Is that the case? If so, what files would be beneficial to store there?
Finally - what about applications/games? Should all the program files be stored on the primary SSD? Or does Windows 7 allow you to store them on a secondary drive without sacrificing performance? How does that work?
Any feedback and advice into this matter would be greatly appreciated. I can generally follow tech jargon... but I'm still relatively new to a lot of this, so detailed instructions would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance!