SSD hard drive 120 GB, windows 7 x64 and 1 TB regular SATA drive,advice on where to store program fi

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

If the disk is being used otherwise, then you'll get a lot of extra head
movement.

Yes, but there is no evidence that that has any effect on the drive
lifetime.

But you are probably right that it will have no measurable affect on the
HDD's lifetime

In fact no effect at all, measurable or otherwise
given that we don't see server drives live any
shorter lives than non server drives.

(though it might have a measurable affect on the performance at the time).

Can't see that either with modern voice coil drives.

Or the older stepper motor head movement drives either for that matter.

Whereas there is a know effect with SSDs, even tho that may well be
much more theoretical a limit than a practical one with modern SSDs.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I've never tried using more than one pagefile on Windows - does it make
good use of them? On Linux you can make multiple pagefiles on different
disks, and the system will automatically spread the load over them all
(similar to a raid0), so that multiple HDD pagefiles will be faster than
one SSD pagefile.

Yes it does make good use of it, you can see when it's paging that a
little bit of activity is going to each separate drive without any one
particular drive getting bogged down. You can even watch the activity of
each pagefile on the Resource Monitor, and see how much is being written
or read from each file by the System process.

Yousuf Khan

 

[delta007bhd]

I slept over it and started all over by restoring old disk image to regular1 TB hard drive. Watched some youtube videos about symlinks and now I got it sorted out.

Apparently in explorer the libraries folders have "My" in front of them butthe actual path to the folder doesn't contain "My". So when in explorer I open up the users\name folder, I can see for example "My Documents" but when I click the address bar at the top, the path strangely enough changes tousers\name\documents. Thank you microsoft for making things more difficultthan they should!

The symlink GUI didn't work so I used command prompt. I still don't understand when to use mklink /d or /j or /h. I used /d.

My Documents:
I cut "My Documents" out of C: and paste it into D. Then created symlink:
mklink /d "C:\users\name\Documents" "D:\Documents" did it even though the folder appears as "My Documents" on D and Documents on C.

My Music:
when this was cut and pasted into D, iTunes started nagging and a folder remained on C which I could not delete (iTunes Media folder). After reboot Icould delete this folder from C. Created symlink (using "Music" and not "My Music") and then opened itunes to change default media folder location back to the symlink on C (C:\users\name\my music\iTunes\iTunes Media)

My Pictures:
When these were moved to D, iCloud control panel started whining it could not find my iCloud photo stream location. Resolved after creating symlink.

This was really a pain in the *** but finally it looks alright now. Making disk image of my cleaned up smaller C drive now so I can restore it onto the SSD (again).

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

Thanks for your help. I'm desperate. I need a beer. Make that 10.

The "My Documents" folder is 'special', it's known as a shell folder and
is treated differently. That's why your attempts to move it manually
and symlink to it won't work.

To move your "My Documents" from C: to D:, press the Windows key and E.
Find the My Documents folder, right-click on it, select Properties then
click the Move button. It'll prompt you for a destination then offer to
move your files over.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

The "My Documents" folder is 'special', it's known as a shell folder and
is treated differently. That's why your attempts to move it manually
and symlink to it won't work.

To move your "My Documents" from C: to D:, press the Windows key and E.
Find the My Documents folder, right-click on it, select Properties then
click the Move button. It'll prompt you for a destination then offer to
move your files over.

To add a little more detail, it is actually Properties -> Location -> Move.

Yousuf Khan

 

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