SSD users, do you have your user profile and appdata folder on another drive?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

whether for space reasons, frequent write concerns, etc.

 

[nanaki333]

kind of defeats the purpose of an ssd to move everything to another drive. i keep my documents on another drive, but that's about it.

 

[Jeff7]

I treat my SSD like a regular hard drive, albeit a small one. (80GB)
OS and programs go there, as well as any other files I might be working with where I want some decent amount of speed.


I figure that 1) It's got a SMART attribute for monitoring wear from writes, and 2) I'll probably end up getting a larger/newer-tech one before this thing becomes unusable due to wear.

 

[AdamK47]

I keep everything but my games on a 120GB Vertex 3. The games take up 2.3TB of space so I store them on two 3TB Hitachi 7K3000 drives in RAID-0 for 6TB. The array is volume mounted to C: \Games.

 

[nanaki333]

I keep everything but my games on a 120GB Vertex 3. The games take up 2.3TB of space so I store them on two 3TB Hitachi 7K3000 drives in RAID-0 for 6TB. The array is volume mounted to C: \Games.

i totally forgot you could do volume mounting! genius!

 

[zuffy]

I keep all my docs and programs in the SSD. iTunes, music, movies, downloads are kept in the spindle drive.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

so no one is concerned about the constant writes to temp folders inside appdata?

 

[imaheadcase]

If you can afford a SSD drive, you can afford a system that backs up hardrive so you don't have to worry about failures anyways so space is not a issue.

Why would people worry about constant writes to temp folders inside appdata?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

limited number of writes to a flash cell?

 

[zuffy]

The whole point of a SSD is to have a fast system. Why move the temp, cache folder, pagefile, etc. to a spindle that is much slower.

 

[podspi]

The only thing I don't keep on the SSDs are games, and large datafiles (including photos, audio, and video).

Everything else I keep on the SSD. There are lots of tweaks people suggest (including moving temp folders off the SSD) but these always hurt performance. The entire point of the SSD is that random reads/writes occur very quickly. If I wanted my temp folder on a spining platter, I wouldn't have purchased an SSD in the first place!

 

[goobernoodles]

I set my roomate's profile to be on his data drive but that's because he only has a 60gb drive and a growing profile directly impacts the number of games he wants to play.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

I set my roomate's profile to be on his data drive but that's because he only has a 60gb drive and a growing profile directly impacts the number of games he wants to play.

that's exactly why i asked.
i just looked at the combined size of programdata and users folders... over 10gb.
smh...

 

[Jeff7]

so no one is concerned about the constant writes to temp folders inside appdata?

They're supposed to have some kind of built-in wear-leveling stuff, no?

 

[stargazr]

I have my OS and programs on my SSD. I have the My Documents and Downloads folders on my data drive.

 

[stevech]

I don't change my profile. I just have desktop icons as links to folders on hard disks where ALL my documents/photos/spreadsheets etc go. I never use "my documents".

 

[fuzzymath10]

With the right controller and memory cells, writes aren't an issue.

I'm trying to preserve the life of my 32GB Onyx which is accumulating writes at a ridiculous pace, but my two Intel 80GB G1 drives are barely touched from write cycles even though I haven't taken any special measures to preserve them.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

you could write 50gb a day for 5 years and still be fine. im not worried about extra writes.

theres a thread on XS where people are running 24/7 ops on their SSDs to try to wear it out. They're at like 70TB or some ridiculous number and it's still at 50% wear only

 

[code65536]

OS, general software, user profile on the SSD (64GB). Games and large data (photos, music, video, torrents, etc.) are on a 2TB 5900RPM Hitachi.

Yes, temp is on the SSD, and that's exactly what I want (frequently-accessed data is exactly what you should have on the SSD). Firefox profiles are also great for the SSD. The Places database (history, bookmarks) can grow pretty large (a couple hundred MB for my main Firefox profile), and that is a huge performance bottleneck for me on HDD-based systems. Yes, putting it on a SSD means lots of writes, but it's well worth it (why shell out $ for a SSD if you don't use it?).

And you have to remember that the greatest eroder of value of a SSD over time isn't the amount of writes that you put on it: it's the fact that over time, SSDs will get bigger, faster, and cheaper and what you have now will be worth much less years from now regardless of whether you write to it or not!

 

[E6700]

my ssd boots OS only all programs are install on secondary drive.

 

[Mark R]

limited number of writes to a flash cell?

With most controllers (the exception being first generation Indilinx), the writes to each flash cell get diluted to such an extent, and the individual flash cells have so many write cycles, that the limit is a non issue.

Only on extremely small SSDs (< 40 GB) where there is very little 'scratch' space for efficient wear levelling, and where writes are less 'diluted' across the whole flash memory there is potentially scope for wearing out an SSD with normal home use. However, even this is unrealistic, unless you have a garbage-grade controller (e.g. indilinx "barefoot") which uses extremely inefficient wear-levelling.

 

[Scotteq]

I use my SSD for the OS and key apps. I put large files, (Music, Video, Docs), on a storage drive.

 

[Herald85]

I have a 80GB G1 as the only drive on my laptop.
My desktop has a corsair P64. It has my often used programs and the user data that I often use. I have about 40GB worth of pdf/doc/ppt/xls files that is stored on my 1TB disk, together with all games,movies and music.
I did disable pagefile (and some other SSD optimization), with 8GB RAM I didn't really notice any negative effect after disabling it.

 

[jjmIII]

kind of defeats the purpose of an ssd to move everything to another drive. i keep my documents on another drive, but that's about it.

Agreed. The list of stuff people DON'T put on their ssd's keeps growing! I just lol .

 

[code65536]

I did disable pagefile (and some other SSD optimization)

Um, disabling the pagefile is not a SSD optimization. It's an I-have-enough-RAM-to-not-need-a-pagefile optimization. If you only have 2GB of RAM, you will want to have a pagefile, regardless of whether you use a HDD or a SSD. If you do use a pagefile, it's a good idea to keep it on the SSD because that will dramatically improve performance if you do page out. For you, disabling the pagefile makes sense. But that's because you have 8GB of RAM, not because you have a SSD.