Leo14 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I know this seems pretty simple, but I just need some clarification.. I can put an SSD in with my existing HD, correct? If so, how do I use it? Obviously I want it for games, but would I have to set it up with windows etc, and only have a select amount of programs on there since it would probably be a smaller in gigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboyslimerr Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Does the R3 have two HDD spaces? If so you should be absolutely fine to stick it in there. Do you plan on cloning your HD and copying it onto SSD (including OS)? Then you'd just need to set boot priority to boot from SSD. If you don't have a spare HDD space you can do what I did, which is use a caddy that fits in the optical (DVD/BR) drive and houses a 2.5" drive. That worked extremely well for me as who uses DVDs anymore anyway 120GB SSDs are pretty cheap and that should be plenty for your OS and some games but any films/music/pictures I suggest you put on your second drive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo14 Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Good looks! I'm almost positive there are two bays. I can remember being confused about an empty space when I was dojng my GPU. Glad a 120gb will be enough for OS and some games, everything else can sit on the regular HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busterbytes Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 You will definitely want to put Windows on the SSD with room for the registry to grow a bit and the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys files on there as well. Programs are actually less important, as the kernel will be able to load much of what it needs onto your physical memory (RAM) and into the pagefile and swapfile.For this reason you may consider installing software to the hdd as well. Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo14 Posted February 28, 2014 Author Share Posted February 28, 2014 You will definitely want to put Windows on the SSD with room for the registry to grow a bit and the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys files on there as well. Programs are actually less important, as the kernel will be able to load much of what it needs onto your physical memory (RAM) and into the pagefile and swapfile.For this reason you may consider installing software to the hdd as well. Hope this helps!Thanks, definitely going to put windows on there, I'd imagine 250gb would be an ample amount, no? I'm mainly doing this for BF4, and whatever games come out in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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