Installing programs on second hard drive

[strep3241]

I am about to reinstall Windows 7 like I do every so often and wanted to find out something about installing programs on a second drive. I have an 120gb SSD as my primary Windows drive and a 500gb drive for all my files.

Would it hurt anything if I install all my programs to the second hard drive? I have read that it is not good to install programs on to a second drive. I may have read that some time ago and didn't know if that was still true.

Since I have an SSD which is much faster than a traditional hard drive, am I defeating the point of having an SSD with all the programs being on the slower drive? Would I notice an increase in the time it takes to open a program?

If this is in the wrong forum, feel free to move it. I thought I made a thread about this already but couldn't find it.

 

[Ketchup]

...Would it hurt anything if I install all my programs to the second hard drive? I have read that it is not good to install programs on to a second drive. I may have read that some time ago and didn't know if that was still true....

Not necessarily. The registry entries will (and some files may) still go to the C drive, but as far as the installation and running fine goes, you are good. But...

Since I have an SSD which is much faster than a traditional hard drive, am I defeating the point of having an SSD with all the programs being on the slower drive? Would I notice an increase in the time it takes to open a program?...

You will lose the speed advantage of the SSD for loading these programs. Depending on the program, as in the amount of data it can keep on RAM and the amount of time it has to grab new data from the Hard Drive, you may or may not notice a difference after the loading of the program.

If this is in the wrong forum, feel free to move it. I thought I made a thread about this already but couldn't find it.

Nah, I think you are good. You are right between this subforum and M&S.

 

[John Connor]

A lot of crap basic programs I install to E drive to save room on the SSD. Games I tend to install on the SSD.

But for example I have all the versions of COD Modern Warfare on E drive. I just copied and paste the current content into a new folder and path then repeat with all the patches so that I can play all the game patched versions.