Setting up my SSD's

Hey guys, sorry, first time posting in this section of the forums, but I just bought a Intel 330s SSD 180gb (I got it at like 80% of the retail price, couldn't give up the bargain ) and a Crucial m4 256gb. I've set up the Intel on my HD0 slot, Crucial on the HD1 slot, when I was installing windows both of them detected fine and the installation went smooth, now I've finished updating all my drivers and have installed all the needed software on my m17x r4 all on the intel drive (which i'll be using only for needed programs and boot). The only thing I haven't done is specific set-ups like I didn't create any partitions (cos I don't want to except for the normal ones created by Microsoft like system recovery etc.

Anyway. my question is, I have a 180gb 330s Intel SSD on drive 0, 240gb Crucial m4 SSD on drive 1, and a 64gb Samsung mSata . How do I set these up for optimal performance? i'm really looking to get this done so I can run 3dmark benchmarks before I install games and stuff on my computer. Thanks a ton for the help! Step-by-step instructions are appreciated but if you could link me to a forum post that has all of these already or a video (preferably) i'd love it!

Oh, also I should mention when I go on my Local Disk, it doesn't show me that I have my second crucial drive. it detects all my external connected HDD's but not the internal one in the 2nd slot. and I know it's there properly because when I was installing win8 I had an option to install it there.

 

I personally would have installed Windows on the M4, it being of larger capacity. You should actually format the drive, that way it will appear in computer. It should show up just fine in disk management and you should be able to format it from there.

also, the best piece of advice I can give you is: use the drives any way you want, just make sure not to fill them up completely. If you're going to be abusing your drives, you can always partition them at 50% capacity and leave the rest unpartitioned. However, for the average Joe, I'd just make sure to leave ~30 -20 % of the SSDs empty.

 

Format the Crucial SSD as NTFS so the Windows OS could detect it as a system connected partition. Read the following guide ( here) to access the Windows 8 Disk Management and right click the Crucial SSD disk.

Make sure that you right clicked the correct SSD, don't click the wrong disk to delete all data.

There should be a format option, select "NTFS" and format.