Ssd and hdd

[LEANGIMPY]

Hello,
When using both SSD & HDD does the SSD replace the HDD partition so that it stores Windows and any other important 'My Documents' info, and are there any gaming benifits? Also does the computer auto select the appropriate drive?

 

[kajabla]

You'll have to move the files between them by yourself, including the OS. Windows will not select a drive for itself. You *should* put the OS on the SSD, along with your favorite games, but you'll have to do it manually. Leave your documents on the HDD.
SSDs do have significant gaming benefits, but not actually in-game. An SSD will markedly reduce loading times.

 

[huron]

You can do anything you want with the SSD, but typically people use it for items they want to load faster (the OS, some games, Office/word processing, etc).

People usually store data on the HDD, since SSDs are much more expensive per GB.

People also try to limit the writes from the SSD as it has a finite amount before it will stop writing. That's why you move the pagefile (or disable on the SSD drive and use on the HDD), turn off hibernate, relocate the My Documents, Downloads, etc.

There aren't really gaming benefits, other than games will load significantly faster. It will not improve the graphics performance, etc - those are highly GPU (and sometimes CPU) dependent.

The computer doesn't autoselect the drives...you specify where you want items to load.

If you are talking about boot, it will try to find a bootable partition on the drives listed. You can adjust the boot order if necessary.

Hope that helps.