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SSD And Conventional HDD's (8 posts)

                                          July 17, 2010

Guys/Gals,

In planing my "Big Build" I am looking at using a Solid

State Drive for the OS only, with a 1 or 2 TB conventional

HDD for storage.

This has brought up the question of drive letter assignment.

"Back in the day", the letter assignment for two drives that

Microsoft said was manditory were:

C: HDD-1's First partition

D: HDD-2's First partition

E: HDD-1's Second partition

F: HDD-2's Second partition

G: to ?? HDD-2's Subsiquent partitions

Z: CD/DVD Burner

What is the situation when you run both an SSD and regular HDD?

Can the SSD be partitioned so it has a C: and an E: drive?

Big Al

Do not partition the SSD. You can change drive letters in Win 7

Trying to partition an SSD drive is like trying to slice a pill in half, not much left! The drive is small enough as it is. With Windows 7 (you ARE using Win 7 right? Only op sys that supports TRIM on SSDs), you can just left windows arbitrarily choose drive letters. You can go in afterwords and REASSIGN the drive letters under Disk Manager. I just did that with my new SSD and my old 1 TB hard drive. SSD C: 1TB D: DVD-ROM E: DVD write F: Plug in SATA cartridges G: USB reader I: etc

You want to preserve as much space on the SSD as possible as things run fast from there but it has limited storage.

Works great! Have fun with the build.

Thank you, I've recently been seeking for details about this subject matter for ages and yours is the best I've found so far.

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In it something is. Many thanks for the information, now I will know.

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