So I took the plunge and ordered some new hardware including a 180 gig SSD. Initially, I had intended t use this drive as my Operating System drive, and also for Skyrim. Then I would use my 750 Gig Caviar Black drive for apps & storage. I currently use the exact same setup except for my system drive is currently a 150 gig Velociraptor instead of a SSD.

But along the way I did a little research into the Smart Response Technology available now and how over time it remembers your frequently used programs and stores them on your SSD basically caching your apps as if they were installed directly on the SSD. I can see where this has advantages in that virtually all of your most used apps could be stored in its cache. And according to stuff I've read you can get by with a much smaller SDD thereby saving a little money.

However, I have some reservations of this method, mostly in that it also said that you could only have the SDD & the main mechanical drive installed and no others. Is this true? Surely you could have an external USB drive plugged in couldn't you? I also read that with a SRT setup you won't use more than 60 Gig of your SSD?

So if anyone with experience in this type of setup could provide a little feedback or advice, I would greatly appreciate it.


At the end of the day, I'll most likely go with the first setup I mentioned.

[C] SSD for OS &
[D] Storage & Apps

And I'll also get an external USB 3.0 drive as my redundant backup. (I'm OCD about backing up and saving stuff, lol.)

Anyway, if you got any tips please post 'em.

Thanks!