So I have 1 Samsung EVO 850 SSD, 1 WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD, and 1 WD Caviar Black 2TB HDD. I'm putting my games on my Caviar Black, my pictures and videos on my blue, and things I use almost everyday on my SSD. I'm not sure if i should keep them on the SSD, or move them to another drive. Currently, I have 150 GB free of 232 GB and i have things such as spotify, chrome, itunes, CSGO, minecraft, skype, Steam, microsoft office, and a couple other things like antivirus and fan control. Should some of these things be moved? And if so, to which drive? Also, i had a question about FRAPS, i currently have it on my SSD, but would it be better on my black? And does it matter which drive i save my videos to? For example, if i have it save to my caviar blue instead of my black, will it have a performance diffe
Which programs should i put on my SSD?
Fraps? What is this 2005? XD
https://obsproject.com/ is better in every way and free. It uses gpu encoding, so the cpu hit is very minimal, thus it doesn't impact performance much, as since its encoding videos they are 1/20 the size of fraps videos.
and you can stream, and you can also do buffered recording (aka shadowplay, it will record everything, but will only write to disk when you press hotkey, and you can set it for any time, from 1minute to 30+mins. So you can save a quick replay or a replay of an entire match of a game)
anyway, store recorded videos on your blue drive with the rest of your media. There's no real performance gain from storing videos elsewhere. Having the application on the SSD and have it store elsewhere is how you should do it. (with all applications honestly).
the only other thing on your SSD should just be your OS, all your programs/applications, and your most played games, or games with long load times (ie like a modded skyrim almost has to be on an ssd)
Files can be put on either the blue or the black that doesn't really matter.
You want to keep only the OS and maybe install the PROGRAMS you the SSD. You have to realize the SSD does have a limited number of reads and writes. So you want to use the speed to its advantage.