1
Just about to setup a new laptop with a 128GB SSD and 1TB 7200RPM HDD.
I'm thinking that most of the 30+ GB of Windows files are probably not accessed on a regular basis, so they don't need to take up the limited space on the SSD.
Does anyone have any info that profiles disk access during Win8.1 boot up, especially looking at the use of the hibernate file vs. system files?
If I was to install Windows on the HDD and only keep the hiberfile, pagefile and common program files on the SSD, would I still get most of the performance benefit of the SSD?
Is it possible to symlink some of the more commonly used system files to the SSD and keep the rest of the installation on the HDD?
Edit: Just want to point out that I realize that the solution here should be to simply add another SSD, and I'll probably end up doing that. But until then I'm interested in exploring what options there are to optimize what's stored on the SSD to save space while maintaining performance.
“Is it possible to symlink some of the more commonly used system files to the SSD and keep the rest of the installation on the HDD?” Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. You end up with a non-standard system and will most likely be chasing gremlins for nearly forever for what? 30 seconds speed improvement? Better to just replace the HDD with an SSD instead of doing this. – JakeGould – 2014-11-19T07:11:25.957
You can mount partition under folder instead of symlink. – Kamil – 2014-11-19T08:02:21.157
How you are using that laptop? What you want to perform fast? Video editing? Photo editing? Gaming? – Kamil – 2014-11-19T08:04:07.753
@Kamil I'm a web developer and I often use VMs (Vagrant) for that. Being able to keep those and my code on the SSD translates into significant time savings for me. – AndyCNX – 2014-11-20T11:25:30.930