How you people use those low storage capacity SSD's?

You only put your OS on it to improve your boot speed. Everything else is on a larger capacity HDD.

Boot speed is uh.

What about all your games? I want those to boot fast.

And how does multiple drives work? I mean so many programs default to the C Drive wouldn't that **** up stuff?

I've always stuck to large drives because I never wanted to mess with multiple drives and OS on all the weird things I have to do like change directories and whatnot.

I only use the OS, programs, and 3 games on mine (at least I will once I get retail Windows 7 for it). You'd think putting so many programs would clog the drive, but SSDs handle it like a champ. That's the problem with magnetic drives, lots of programs tend to make loading applications tedious after a while. NOT so with an SSD, it's exactly as fast as you need it to be, all the time, no matter how much you put on it (as long as you actually have room).

Really? I got a good setup, fast CPU/Ram/GPU and plenty of it too.

But wouln'd apps load faster?

I mean I usually take a piss while my PC is booting

SSD's are not mainly used to speed up boot times, while that is one of the features of an SSD, they give an all around performance boost. Boot up time, application opening speed, game loading screens, random write performance, transer rates, etc.

People use SSDs for the random access time. Even if an SSD does 270Mb/s that isn't what makes it fast. The 0.1ns latency is where the real speedup takes place.

Games are considered storage, and using SSDs for storage is pointless, since the files are rarely accessed, and the random access time is useless. If you want your games to load faster stick them on a Raid 0 640GB Caviar Black array and if you don't need the entire 1.2TB of space then short stroke them to boost the access time.

I have just the SSD (128GB) in my laptop. A half dozen games installed on it and roughly half the volume is still empty.

Music, movies, and install iso's are kept on NAS.

After installing everything I need on my desktop's 80gig SSD, there's ~19gb free that afaik never gets touched.

Diagnostic apps, Office, CoD4 and Torchlight are on the SSD.

The pagefile is on a separate 640gb WDCBlack along with Firefox temp files, a virtual machine, and other games.

The netbook I use has a 30gb SSD with about 19gb free after Windows 7 and Office. It remote connects to the virtual machine on my desktop for serious crunching and to transfer files to NAS while away from home (at home it connects to NAS wirelessly, adding 2tb storage).

I like to think my SSD is a little larger than the average person would buy, and here is what I've done. I made a 30gb partition for the OS, and office installed to C: as well (I don't think you can choose where it goes), moved the page file to my Barracuda, and I have WoW, and both Crysis's installed so far on the rest of the drive. So I still have about 120 gb of room left. Plenty. I downloaded all of my steam games that I don't play as often to my HDD as well.

Just be sure to choose where you are installing things, there is no point in filling up your SSD with games that don't get played all the time, or don't have many load times to begin with. And of course, keep your music/video's off the SSD too.

I wouldn't really call WoW slow to load... Maybe I have one of my magical setups where everything is faster and better then everyone else's and I have no clue why.

Was he using a slow drive in both cases? I might have read you wrong, but it doesn't take me 6 seconds of wait time to cross a bridge into a new zone.