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Post Date: 2010-07-14
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    Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 10:22pm
Hey all, I will have my computer tomorrow night and the one extremely important goal of mine is to manage the Hard drives very well both to save space and also to keep my sanity.
 
HD1=160SSD intel
HD2=1TB Western Digital 64Mb
 
I look online and find lots of guides, tons actually but the dates and information can be so varied and I dont know enough to properly filter out good, bad, or dated information. My primary concern is:
  1. Can librarys be moved related to the OS? (My documents, my downloads, my pictures, etc so I dont fill my SSD right up, and how to I move these neatly, just dump them over to HD2?)
  2. 1TB is huge, its a giant cave, would creating partitions make sense here, how would you set up yours.
  3. Finding a one stop guide that can give me a roadmap to working on all this without needing to jump all over the net for pieces.

ty for any help. I dont expect someone to write me a guide but perhaps a source suggestions for me to properly learn all this. Ideally a site which explains how to make a specific setup rather than general tips. I have a lot to learn guys sorry:)
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Just install any non-important games on the HDD, and store all movies/music/photos/media on it. That's pretty much all you have to do other than keeping your game library on the SSD pruned. Games will be what fills it up so just uninstall any you're not playing anymore.

Application installs are usually tiny, and save folders and stuff in My Documents will never amount to anything either. I've never used My Pictures, but you can tell most any folder to point to another drive should you feel the need.
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unless dragoonseal comes back and says that theres any substantial benefit to partitioning, which i dont believe there is, i would just leave it out entirely. its much easier to just manage drive space with folders, ive never used partitions and see no reason to
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