New Laptop with SSD......

[Pulsar]

I just purchased a new Lenovo Ideapad with a 100 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. I know the theory behind it - the SSD is much faster blah blah. I installed office on the laptop, but today I checked and the SSD has only 5 GB free and the HDD has nothing on it.

I assumed windows 10 would be smart enough at this point to place things where they belong. I'm thinking now that my assumption was wrong. Do I need to direct the programs to install on the HDD?

 

[Billb2]

Since an SSD is much faster that a spinner drive, all programs belong on an SSD. The problem is that some SSDs aren't big enough to hold all the programs you may want to put onto them. Thus you have to specify where you want them to be put.

Specifically (Office 2010, but similar with all others)
setup.exe
enter admin pwd
Office dialog appears
Continue...
I Accept
Select Customize
File Location tab
Browse to where you want it
Install now
Go...

...or get a bigger SSD.

...and you don't want to fill an SSD over about 80%.

 

[Pulsar]

Thanks Bill!

 

[Commodus]

Macs actually do what you're thinking of. If you buy an iMac with a Fusion Drive, it stores things on the spinning drive by default and moves things to the SSD based on frequency. You don't get fine-grained control over where files go, but you can generally assume the apps you use often will be fast.

 

[quikah]

I am surprised that the laptop is not setup in a hybrid configuration, windows supports it, the SSD is used as a cache. Intel RST is one such technology. Is this the factory image or did you reinstall windows? What model is it?

 

[Pulsar]

Factory image, Lenovo Ideapad y700. Here:

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Y700-Gaming-Windows-80NV0028US/dp/B014MIBWP2

 

[JeffMD]

Macs actually do what you're thinking of. If you buy an iMac with a Fusion Drive, it stores things on the spinning drive by default and moves things to the SSD based on frequency. You don't get fine-grained control over where files go, but you can generally assume the apps you use often will be fast.

This isnt a mac thing, hybrid hard drives do this. It isn't smart like android either, so these drives never got real popular.

A true SSD/HDD split will need manual control so get used to it. ^^ even android will give you out of storage errors for both apps and images if your main memory is full but your sd card is empty, you must tell it to use that storage medium specifically.