Hi everyone, I 'd like to expand on the discussion about SSD 's for a moment

[G+_Billy Stanton]

Hi everyone, I'd like to expand on the discussion about SSD's for a moment. I haven't had to deal with a computer with more than one mass storage device in probably ten years and frankly, I'm not looking forward to doing that again if I were to add an SSD to my rig.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice about minimizing the amount of micromanagement I'd have to do in assigning what data goes where.

 

For example, I know that I can change the default directory for my iTunes library, and I expect that I can do the same with my steam game library. I would hope I can change the default USER directory for my windows logins.

 

Is it possible to change the default install directory? (I.e. C:\program files to D:\program files?) any other nuggets of advice?

 

Thanks everyone!

[G+_Billy Stanton]

Might have been helpful if I mentioned that I'm using a PC platform instead of merely implying it.

[G+_Parminder Singh]

for program files

 

check this out it may help you

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/how-do-you-change-the-default-installation/73450b25-d794-4f18-9add-75253b893343

[G+_Billy Stanton]

Hmm, thanks. It looks good as long as you change both the values in the 64 bit registry. I always try to avoid messing with the registry if I can help it.

[G+_Matt Bonnett]

Depends on how much you store and where. I don't leave much in my user directory so leave that on the SSD. Haven't done the Program Files change yet but it has more or less become habit to change the location on a new application install. The other obvious stuff like Steam and consider any application which may have its own 'unseen' cache of data that may be huge. Adobe Premiere in my case dumps a lot of scratch data in the user directory. Thankfully in Adobe apps this can be easily changed without moving the user directory entirely.?

 

Should note with Steam that still not everything can be installed to a second library as it is referred to in the settings. So it may be pertinent to do the actual Steam install to the storage drive and not the SSD.

[G+_Kent Smith]

I just added an SSD drive to my main desktop a month ago. I have now have two "regular" HDD's installed along with it.

 

I'm not sure if there is a way to change the "default" location of where to install new programs. But I've found with everything I installed it would prompt me for where I wanted to install it. Anything where I really needed that speed boost I would install in the usual C: programs directed that it usually prompts you to.

 

Anything else I would install just into a directory I set up called Programs on one of my HDD's and it would install to there.

 

Haven't had any issues at all with it. It's just a matter of not doing the "default" setup for any new programs you do and instead making sure to hit the "Advanced" option or whatever they call it. That wasn't a big deal to me as I started doing that long time ago as I wanted to make sure programs weren't installing stupid stuff that I didn't want anyway.