Do You Put Your Cloud Storage Drives Such as Dropbox And Google Drive On Your SSD?

I successfully installed my first SSD yesterday. I have been reading a lot about SSDs today. As with many computer related things, there seems to be a lot of conflicting information out there about certain issues.

One such thing is the life is the lifespan of the SSD. Many people have stated that you will get 10 years with modern SSDs though that's only if you look after it.

My laptop has a 256GB msata SSD and a 320GB 7200 RPM hard drive. I've put windows 7 on the ssd as well as applications. At the moment the 320GB drive has windows on it as well but I'm going to format that and just use it for photos, videos, files etc.

My question is: where do people put their Dropbox and Google Drive folders. These programs can do a lot of reading and writing on a regular basis because files change so much. The whole point of putting in the SSD was to speed up the system though I don't want to burn up the drive quickly either.

There's only about 15GB of files at the moment between these two services though this will increase over the next few months. Is it better to put them on the SSD or HDD?

Apologies if this is a silly question though there seems to be a lot of disagreement with this on the net

Kevin

 

I have my Skydrive folder, along with all my other data folders on the HDD.

 

Well, I know what I'm doing when I get home from work. :thumbsup:

 

Was this mainly due to limited space on your SSD?

 

unless you're swapping out 100GB of files per day in your storage folders, you'll be fine*. Concerns over SSD integrity are greatly exaggerated.

you should be aware that your OS and applications write much, much more in the background than you realize.

if you really care about your SSD, you'd make sure that defrag is turned off and never ran ever

another way to look at it....whats the point of buying something if you never use it?

*actually, you'd be fine for 10yrs even in this case



EDIT: from what I recall, there's only been one confirmed case where someone burned out their SSD writes and if i recall correctly, it had been used as a scratch disk on a rendering farm.

 

Thanks. I've put the Dropbox folder on the SSD.

I actually removed defragmentation today after following this guide.

 

I only have SSDs in my laptop, so my Dropbox goes on one of them.

Honestly, there's no reason to worry about SSD write limits unless you're doing something very, very specific that has stupidly-high I/O (like a scratch disk).

 

Nah I won't be using a scratch disk. My Google Drive might get to about 50gb in size but I have the space so I don't think storage will be an issue (plus I can always change the folder later if it is). Appreciate the help with this

 

Dropbox won't make a lick of difference, unless you're writing to the SSD all day long every day of the year 24/7 without much break. Not gonna happen. Just use it as you normally would, do a clean windows install, just don't defrag, and make sure scheduled defrag is off, and it should be with a clean install of Windows on the SSD. Bottom line don't worry about it. If anything the controller will likely fail long before the write/erase cycle count is ever reached. I'm certain you'll be replacing the drive well before there's ever any issue with exhausting the write cycles.

 

The only reason I put the files on SSD is to minimize HDD spin up.
It will be a hardcore night if google drive/ dropbox keep my HDD spinning next to my pillow ~~

 

Pretty much.
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with all the cloud services I just upload through the broswer, i dont use thier "software" and i know dropbox and sugarsync like to create folders for you to sync your content but i leave that stuff alone.

i dont need things like "versioning". I need it off my drive, thats why i use cloud services, as extra drives.

if i need a backup, ill burn it to disk. if i need a backup backup, ill move it to the cloud.

 

If you need a backup backup, you need to copy the original to at least two (or more) physical, local HDD's - not the cloud.

Hope your data isn't too important to you...

 

depends on what it is.

work files: sit on HDD, backup to external HDD, back up to DVD-R, and cloud


tv shows and : eh, whereever the wind takes em.

 

Does anyone using skydrive know why the skydrive folder opens automatically every time the computer is turned on? Is there any way to stop that from happening?

 

I put my Cloud Storage Drives on my HDD. My SSD space is too valuable to use up for that. I'd prefer that my 3D modelling applications be on the SSD.