bdrosen wrote:There are plenty of things you can do to reduce the size on a OS SSD. As for Program Files, etc - almost all programs let you select where to install, so installing to d: vs c: should be fine more most things. A 240GB SSD should be more than enough for an OS drive.
Yes, I know that you can redirect most installs to another drive/directory, but I would like to see a simplified ability where you could tell windows that nX directory will be placed in empty drive/directory D:/nX drive and nX(x86) directory will be placed in the empty drive/directory at D:nX(x86). Thus reducing drive space need for the OS and Program Files. Also, if the two drives only have the OS and Program Files on them, it should reduce the system latency because of multiple data requests to the drive at the same time.
That was one reason that I moved up My Documents, Install, and Video directories to separate physical drives. The other main reasons were to avoid loosing everything, again, in the event of an epic drive failure or system reinstall. (Too many OOPS! because of drives/partitions of equal size and archaic nomenclature on Fdisk)
Now i really believe in redundancy. (Separate physical drives for separate media types, backups using winders home server, and online backup of important data and vacation photos (Driving in Alaska from Prudhoe Bay to Anchorage and Valdez for one thing. Quite Beautiful))
arargh wrote:Problem is, no matter where the programs are installed, if you trash the OS, odds are that you will have to reinstall everything anyway. A lot of windows programs stick a whole bunch of junk in the registry, which stays on the OS drive, and the programs won't run without them. Backing up and restoring the registry can get iffy.
arargh
Yes, I know that. On thing that I liked about win95-98se was the ability to reinstall winders without having to reinstall all programs. But, like you said, programs stick a bunch of junk in the registry nowadays that requires reinstall of all programs with the OS. Which is annoying. The last time I reinstalled my OS, most of my games required a full download of all files to install. Battlefield 3 took over 30Gigs of download to fully install. That month I went WAY over the AT&T 150GB download cap.
Sooo Fel, Have you decided on what your going to purchase?
) Anyone have any ideas if winders7 install can do that?
