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Post Date: 2011-02-13
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    Posted: 13 Feb 2011 at 3:10pm
I'm using win-7 and of course any and all update-drivers-device-management-windows7-games-and-aunt-betty's-addressbook wants to install to the C:\ drive.  Asus, and Nvidia configuration software etc.

This system is primarily for gaming.  This is my first SSD drive, a 80gb X25-M MLC, and the second drive is the Western Digital 1TB HDD. 

What's the best strategy for managing what's on the drive?  I know that there are concerns with writing and re-writing to the drive.  (Doesn't Microsoft know this?)  Windows 7 already wont let me move chess. 

Is there a place in the Win-7 OS that I can redirect the downloads, and temp files?

Thanks for any help guys.
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You don't need to worry about write and and etc, your drive supports trim to help with that, and windows 7 has the commands to use it, in short win7 and intel ssd are working together in the background to take care of the write issues.

Its not a good idea to mess and move your windows files/folder, the games and download is fine but don't mess with your profile folders/windows folder, but like I said its not necessary.

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Ah! but the drive is filling up.  So space is a premium.  If I have my swapfile on there then that equals high-speed gaming with alot of read and writes to it.  (12-gig of system RAM, and 3-gig of GPU RAM)

Should the games themselves be on the HDD? slower but no read-write wear concerns.  Everquest II, LOTRO, and RIFT the thing about these MMOs is their code is always changing.  That equals alot of read-writes.

The price of these SSDs will be coming down.  So eventually this drive will be replaced.  I already had to move windows.old off of it.  The question is....what really should be on there, and what should not?

Would there be a strategy of having a SSD drive that was all swapfile, for fast gaming? almost a ram drive?

Here we are talking about 3-Gig of video memory.  I have a Pentium 733mhz with 128 meg of sdram that still works. 


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The real problem as you have determined is that the SSD is too small. While you can move the temp files and downloads to a new location, they will free up so little space that you will be back here again asking what else can be moved.

You will have to decide which of the MMOs you play the least (for example LOTRO), copy the game code and data to a new directory on the Hard disk (for example BkupLOTRO), uninstall the game, reinstall the MMO telling it to install the game on the hard disk into a third directory (for example NewLOTRO), then copy the game code and data from BkupLOTRO to NewLOTRO so you don't have to go through the long process of reapplying all the patches).

By doing this, you free up gigabytes of space on your SSD as opposed to megabytes of space.
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Significantly reduce the size or even outright disable the pagefile if you want to save some space, with that much RAM you won't need it.
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get a second ssd or move games to the second drive as suggested.

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