OS will only boot up faster with a solid-state drive. If you perform any operating system related task that needs to retrieve data from the drive, it will be much faster rather than the HDD. That being said, if you only care about loading subsequent programs (or logistically prefer keeping your OS separate), you can easily keep the SSD as a secondary drive, only using it for certain programs/tasks.

The whole point of a solid-state drive is to decrease application loading times. This is more due to the lower seek time rather than the faster transfer rate, which makes it more like RAM. In fact, some users would be better off getting more RAM than a solid-state drive - but that always depends on your needs.

The main storage device (SSD or HDD) is always the bottleneck of any computer system. While SSDs help to alleviate this bottleneck, new ones are still only ~1/40th the speed of RAM. For example, some memory bandwidth in newer computers has reached over 20,000 MB/s versus some new SSDs which top out at just over 500 MB/s.

You can also use it for the increased sustained transfer speed, but that only applies if you deal with very large file transfers with, for example, video encoding.

For the fastest experience with your computer, install your OS on the solid-state drive, but do remember to make frequent backups.

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If you tight on budget, buy the Liteon 900S 256GB @ RM380++ not sure got hike price or not lar.

Then, all your important productivity software like ms-office or adobe etc or converter or premier blabla etc goes to your C Drive (SSD). Games all install on D Drive (HDD). (assuming you use caddy)

Turn off paging file if you don't always full load your RAM (some people have 16GB RAM on their lappy), if you do always full load your RAM, then set between max paging file same as your RAM size (eg. 8GB = initial:4096MB - max:8192MB), but I let it be automatic manage since I don't always full load my 8GB RAM, Turn off System Restore (save space), if you skeptical about it, put 1-2%.

Move all your Documents, Music, Video, Downloads, Pictures and Desktop directories to your HDD.

My Setup on my Lenovo Z400T: Core i5 + 8GB RAM + 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD

If you tight on budget, buy the Liteon 900S 256GB @ RM380++ not sure got hike price or not lar.

Then, all your important productivity software like ms-office or adobe etc or converter or premier blabla etc goes to your C Drive (SSD). Games all install on D Drive (HDD). (assuming you use caddy)

Turn off paging file if you don't always full load your RAM (some people have 16GB RAM on their lappy), if you do always full load your RAM, then set between max paging file same as your RAM size (eg. 8GB = initial:4096MB - max:8192MB), but I let it be automatic manage since I don't always full load my 8GB RAM, Turn off System Restore (save space), if you skeptical about it, put 1-2%.

Move all your Documents, Music, Video, Downloads, Pictures and Desktop directories to your HDD.

My Setup on my Lenovo Z400T: Core i5 + 8GB RAM + 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD