SSD and HDD combo set up on Windows 7 64 bit

[thecool1]

Hi all, I have a question. I was wondering if anyone can take me by the hand and explain the best way I should go out setting up both a Solid State Drive and Hard Disk Drive in one system. I have researched about how to optimize Windows 7 for a SSD i.e switiching to AHCI mode, disabling indexing and superfetching etc. But If I do this will it effect my mechanical HDD Drives performance? Also is it advisable to run a HDD in AHCI mode anyway? If someone could give me a step by step guide that would be much appreciated. (sorry for sounding like I dont know a thing, its just I bought a SSD thinking it would be fairly straight forward to install with a HDD, but for my peace of mind I want a second opinion from an expert before I start taking my computer apart.) Thanks to anyone who takes the time out to help me.

 

 

Windows 7 64 bit

8GB DDR3 Ram

AMD Athlon 645 3.8GHZ (Overclocked)

Geforce GTX 460

(I will post the specific details of my motherboard and chipsets on a later thread, I cant remember them now)

[Plastic Nev]

OK, I am no expert, SSD technology is still new ground, at least for me.

However the operating system will have to be installed on one of the drives and obviously for the best performance on the SSD drive.

It now depends a lot on how big the SSD drive is, if big enough, all applications should ideally also be on the SSD. The ordinary HDD will then become the repository for all other files.

if done that way, programs will or should, open quickly and also run well as there is very little search time involved with SSD, unlike the old HDD where the head has to traverse the disk to find the relevant data.

Hope that helps, and that someone with a bit more knowledge can give a bit more info.

 

Nev.