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‎11-12-2016 04:15 AM

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I have a new HP Pavilion 17-ab051sa 17.3" Laptop which has Storage: 1 TB HDD & 128 GB SSD. This isthe first laptop I have had with a SSD drive. My question is (I apologise in advance if it is a stupid question!) does the SSD drive have a particular use? I mean do programs get stored on it or is it just for any data?

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‎11-12-2016 01:33 PM - edited ‎11-12-2016 01:34 PM

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You can set programs to "install" on the hard drive but only part of it will go there: you can't help but install large parts of the program on the system drive so you might as well just let them install on the C: drive. Keep the SSD under 90% full is all I can say and the 128 gig C: drive is going to limit how much software you have on the laptop but you have a lot of space left. 

 

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‎11-12-2016 05:19 AM

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The SSD is way faster than a hard drive so unless I miss my guess, in your case Windows is housed on the SSD and it is the main system drive. At least that is how it ideally should be arranged.  It is the 1 TB hard drive that is doing the warehouse type storage. 128 gigs is barely enough for an OS for a lot of people. You should be sure to migrate the "library" folders, documents, pictures, videos, downloads over to the 1 TB  hard drive and keep an eye on how full the C:\ drive which I assume to be the SSD is getting from time to time. 

 

Post back if you need more help with this. Easy to move the "Documents", etc. folders. 

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‎11-12-2016 10:41 AM - edited ‎11-12-2016 10:43 AM

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Thank you very much for your reply.  I found in the Settings-storage that I can choose to have documents, photos, videos and music saved to drive D so I have done that. The storage on the C drive is about 40% used but at the moment I have not loaded any programs apart from McAfee on the computer as I want to find my way round it first. Someone suggested that programs should be stored on the SSD drive. Would you agree?  Surely there is not a lot of space for programs?

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‎11-12-2016 01:33 PM - edited ‎11-12-2016 01:34 PM

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You can set programs to "install" on the hard drive but only part of it will go there: you can't help but install large parts of the program on the system drive so you might as well just let them install on the C: drive. Keep the SSD under 90% full is all I can say and the 128 gig C: drive is going to limit how much software you have on the laptop but you have a lot of space left. 

 

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‎11-12-2016 02:09 PM

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Thank you for your help. It is very much appreciated.

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‎11-12-2016 02:10 PM

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My pleasure

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