What apps or games should i put in my ssd?

I plan to buy a 120+gb of ssd besides windows, what applications should i put inside the ssd? Would you recommend to just put the application on my hdd? Im confused right now. Ive read some articles that they said its not safe to use entirely the storage of the ssd cards.

 

the apps you use the most..like MS office, adobe apps..I've also heard that you shouldn't use the entire space but im not sure how much of a difference that would really make..especially since TRIM is now here. Basically, just don't put your large music/video collections, you just need to have your most important programs there and maybe some games if you play it but that might take up a lot of space

 

Any application that is on msconfig's boot up list, any application you run very often (MS Word/Excel, Adobe Reader, IM Client, Anti-Virus, Browser). The only major exception is Steam, which I put on a different drive so it installs all the games there...

 

Thanks guys. Now im so confused if I really need one, considering the price. Is it really that fast?

 

I see you're coming from a 7200rpm Momentus. An SSD really is a significant step up from even a 7200rpm drive, unless it's a Momentus XT. If you had an XT and were iffy about getting an SSD, I would say that the XT is sufficient - it's closer to SSD performance than it is a regular 7200rpm drive.

 

the XT is still closer in performance to a 7200 than it is to an SSD though. the jump will still be pretty big.

 

I agree, I have not seen that big of jump with the XT...not saying its junk but
IMO doesn't live up to all the early hype

 

I can attest to that too. the MomentusXT to me was a big disappointment. The boot times weren't that much faster than a 7200 rpm drive, yet it's much more expensive and almost gets into SSD pricing.

 

Also, there are many different types of SSDs. Some are faster than others. If you want a higher performance drive, you should look at the ones with Sandforce controllers. Two examples are the G.Skill Phoenix Pro and the OCZ Vertex 2. I would recommend the 120GB G.SKill because I have one and I can vouch for its speed. Windows boots in like 15 seconds.

 

Yup to that, SandForce drives are fast, and the one in my Vostro 1500 has been running for months, runs perfectly fine.

 

I got it to boot up 10 seconds faster. I thhink phils goes faster than that and I dont know why.

Other than that I have barely noticed a difference.

If it loaded chrome faster I would notice but it never has.

What Ive noticed it running faster is the directories even of the 2nd hd which is not an xt. All the folders show their pictures faster in explorer.

IT is mostly just like a 7200 rpm 500 gb hd. It happens to also be the fastest 7200 rpm 500 gb out there though.

 

Wait, what?

500GB hybrid = $130
500GB SSD = $1300

Ten times cost...

 

Such big SSD is, IMO, pointless. Instead of 500gb SSD, why won't you buy small SSD only for system and big, normal HDD for other junk?

(No, please, don't say you need SSD speed for movies, music etc).

 

I have steam on my ssd. I just activate only the games that I want to play. works fine even on an 80gb ssd (would even work on a 40gb ssd for me). so on a 120gb, that should be quite a few games.

 

I went from a 7200.4 Seagate 500gb to the Momentus XT to a Sandforce Corsair Force SSD (the 50K IOPS faster one). The jump from regular drive to the XT was pretty significant and I was very happy. The jump from XT to SSD was great as well, maybe about the same jump I experienced from going from a regular drive to the XT. The XT's performance gain is significant for things like repetitive tasks, office environments, and booting Windows, which is a lot of what I do. If you do photo/video editing etc, then there wont be gains with the XT over another 7200rpm drive (other than the 32mb of cache vs 16mb in other 7200rpm drives).

 

I play mmos and some take up 30 - 50 gigs alone a peace and I dont just play one, redownloading that type of stuff is big no no, to much time hehe...The best thing you can do is to get a slimdrive that has 1-2-3 terabytes and fill that up all the while saving the stuff you use the most for the ssd.

 

Well part of the problem is in a laptop you only have a single hard drive slot, so you have to choose one or the other.

 

Check the links in my signature for an answer to that question... especially the one where I boot Windows 7 + 27 applications in about 1 minute. Most mechanical hard drives would have barely made it past the Windows login screen at that point, let alone load 27 applications and leave Windows in a useable state. It shows the extreme performance of an SSD, particularly when it comes to multitasking.

An SSD is 100x faster than mechanical HDDs in areas that matter, like random 4KB reads and I/O's per second. It is literally like going from a 56K dial-up modem to a 5.6Mbps broadband connection.

If you want performance, then there is nothing that comes even close to touching the performance that an SSD can give.

 

Hi there - you put on your SSD whatever you want to load fast, or whatever you want to have benefit from the IOPS of the SSD compared to HDD. I keep my photos on my SSD, because they load so much faster in Picture Motion Broswer. Upon initially creating the library, if I load the photos from my HDD, all 10GB of them take 67 seconds to generate in the library. When I loaded the same photos from my SSD, the library created in about 27 seconds. Upon opening up PMB, all of the thumbnails have to reload. From my HDD, this was taking a while, and I'm just not patient enough for that.

I keep games, music, movies, and all other user documents on my HDD.