Buying new rig with 2xSSD and HDD, how to partition programs optimally?

[mf_hxc]

Hi Guys

I'm buying a new rig which will have
1x 250gb WD Blue
1x 250gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus (hell fast)
1x1TB HDD

What would be the optimal way to install programs?

My guess is to go...
WD = Windows and Drivers
Samsung = All poker programs (casinos, HM3, Note Caddy, Pio, Oracle, tools/helpers)
HDD = all other trash/games etc.


Or is there something else?
Should HM3 and Note caddy be on seperate drives?
should HM3 and Note caddy be on the same drive and separate to the online casinos, tools and helpers?

Please enlighten me!

Thanks

[mf_hxc]

Hi Guys

I'm buying a new rig which will have
1x 250gb WD Blue
1x 250gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus (hell fast)
1x1TB HDD

What would be the optimal way to install programs?

My guess is to go...
WD = Windows and Drivers
Samsung = All poker programs (casinos, HM3, Note Caddy, Pio, Oracle, tools/helpers)
HDD = all other trash/games etc.


Or is there something else?
Should HM3 and Note caddy be on seperate drives?
should HM3 and Note caddy be on the same drive and separate to the online casinos, tools and helpers?

Please enlighten me!

Thanks

[fozzy71]

I generally suggest that customers install everything Windows and poker related on the fastest/SSD drive and that they buy the biggest SSD they can afford to make sure they always have plenty of free space. I personally have a 512 GB SSD and 3 TB HDD for storage. You might want to consider skipping the WD Blue and get a larger SSD since HM3 SQLite databases take about 50% more space than the HM2 PostgreSQL databases did.

[mf_hxc]

Do you install games to the HDD storage drive, or share those with the SSD?


I dont use a lot of storage so 3 TB for a HDD is super overkill.

on my 4-5 year old laptop I've only used 80gb on Windows partition and 180GB on the main partition where I install all software, games and junk.



Would you say that a 500gb Samsung 970 Pro SSD divided into a windows partition and "other stuff" partition, is a superior set up vs. below

WD Blue 250gb- windows
Samsung 970 Pro 512gb- All Poker stuff
HDD - All other stuff (games music films n shit)

If I get desperate for more space which I highly doubt, I can get an external drive

[mf_hxc]

@fozzy71
I generally suggest that customers install everything Windows and poker related on the fastest/SSD drive and that they buy the biggest SSD they can afford to make sure they always have plenty of free space. I personally have a 512 GB SSD and 3 TB HDD for storage. You might want to consider skipping the WD Blue and get a larger SSD since HM3 SQLite databases take about 50% more space than the HM2 PostgreSQL databases did.


Thanks for your comment

where/if you install games like CS:GO or PUBG would that go to the HDD or the SSD?


Is it more optimal to have a seperate slower SSD for only windows and drivers, and another SSD for all poker stuff (and a game or 2)?
or would you cut out the SSD for only windows and have them both running on the faster Samsung SSD?

[udbrky]

Do you own any of these drives currently? If not, watch the sales this month. Newegg has had a lot of disks cheap. Get a good deal on a 1TB NVME/SSD and a large disk for mass storage.

Any games you are not actively playing, you should put on slower drives. Keep in mind how much space a lot of games use. Remember that if you play a lot of hands, your hard drive will fill up fast. You need 10% free space at all times for Windows. We recommend 20% for Note Caddy.

Put all media and documents, including X:\hm3archive on the slow drive.

Then, your priority is on files that you access frequently and require fast retrieval go on your fastest drive.

Also, backup data. Backup your archive monthly and your HUD every time you make changes. You should have an external backup, and online wouldn't hurt. Drives die. Sometimes, you don't get much warning and you can't dump data off a dying drive very fast.