I currently have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda as the one and only drive in my machine, I am now looking into buying a 256GB SSD. Do you think that the 256GB SSD would be enough for my C: drive or should I just use it for caching. I was thinking, I could just use a program called Steam Mover to store my games on the 3TB drive and keep the ones I play often on my SSD, but I'm not sure and would like the opinions of people who are more knowledgeable than me. Thank you. Also, what SSDs would you recommend for gaming?
Here are the rest of my system specs:
ASUS Maximus VI Hero
i7-4770K
GTX 680
16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600
3TB Seagate Barracuda
Optical Drive
Well it depends what you want to do.
Usually it is best to have an SSD with your OS, frequently used programs and maybe a few games on it. That way you will have lightening fast boot times and loading times.
SSDs don't affect framerates only loading times. Keep that in mind.
If you are getting an SSD though I would recommend a clean install of Windows. Usually solves a lot of headaches.
Caching is also a good option but it will.never be as fast as having stuff right on the SSD. Most people usually.have an SSD for boot ect like I mentioned above and a smaller one for caching to increase speed across the board.
There is no "good SSD for gaming" just good and bad SSDs gaming has nothing to do with it. The Samsung 840 Evo is one of my favorites. The Crucial M500 is quite nice as well. I know some people don't like Sandforce but I've been using two Kingston HyperX 3ks in RAID 0 for some time now and they have been fabulous.
Yeah. Just toss your OS onto the SSD and whatever programs you use most often, and let your HDD handle the rest. That's going to give you the best performance. Also, you shouldn't need to use Steam Mover to install games on separate drives. Steam should ask you where you want to install the game when you begin downloading it. Oh, and remember to leave a bit of space free on the SSD. I wouldn't go over 75% or 80% capacity or so. They operate much better with some free space. Just a heads up.
To give you an idea - i currently have WIn 8.1, World of Tanks and Wildstar installed in my 250gb SSD - and that only uses 64GB - not to mention all the other crap like vlc, musicbee, pdf reader, scrivener, all my documents and pdf's
TL:DR - 250gb is heaps, install stuff till its full - use your hdd for stuff that wont benefit like mp3's and video files