I have a PC with a conventional hard drive and a solid state drive, C; is the conventional with 200 gig the SS drive E; has 1 Tb, my conventional has 12 gig left free and the machine is suffering, correction I am suffering.
How can I or is it advisable to move my data to the solid state drive while leaving the OS on the conventional drive?
Can I install Solid Works and other program's to the solid state?
Hi Paul,
You should be able to move all data to the SSD, all file references will be broken as the drive letter has changed.
You can manually re-reference as you open files. If all referenced files are in the same folder you should only have to tell it once for every assembly you open and it will load the rest from there.
If you want Solidworks to do the job, go to system options>File Locations>referenced documents and add the upper level of the directory you moved your data to. That way it'll search that directory for files where the references are broken (turn on 'search file locations for external references'. This will only work if your naming conventions are tight and you don't have duplicate filenames in different projects, as it will pick up the first file it finds with the same name.
For a mind bending read on file search routines CHECK THIS OUT 2016 SOLIDWORKS Help - Search Routine for Referenced Documents
Installing your software onto the SSD should not be a problem either. Back up your settings with copy settings wizard. Ensure you clean the reg etc when you uninstall. Once you've uninstalled everything you intend to move to the SSD run a defrag or 2 on the conventional drive.
Thanks Bjorn,
I intend to install 2017 SP1 soon and as my C drive is full I was investigating moving software, I do not keep Solid works data on my drive, we have a sever with all our cad data.
I just wanted to know if it was OK to install onto the SSD as I have seen people with issues in the past, our IT are going to get me a bigger C drive and transfer/copy the data, I still do not quite know how it gets full up if I do not store any data local, I am very good at housekeeping and always disk clean and de-frag regularly???
Regards.
I setup a new computer recently and put my 400gig SSD as the C: drive and my 2tera conventional drive as my D: data drive.
Then when I load programs I make sure to put as much of the support files on the D: drive and mostly have the exe programs running on the SSD. This makes the operation Much faster because any disk accessing while processing the data or running the program is using the fast drive. The data is kept on the slower drive where is just loaded from but not doing a-lot of reading and writing during the operation of the program.
The information I had gotten indicated this is the best way to get the fastest operation.
Also, what may slow your system down is if your ram memory is not large enough then the information is written and read from the C: drive (virtual drive setting).
Hi Paul,
You should be able to move all data to the SSD, all file references will be broken as the drive letter has changed.
You can manually re-reference as you open files. If all referenced files are in the same folder you should only have to tell it once for every assembly you open and it will load the rest from there.
If you want Solidworks to do the job, go to system options>File Locations>referenced documents and add the upper level of the directory you moved your data to. That way it'll search that directory for files where the references are broken (turn on 'search file locations for external references'. This will only work if your naming conventions are tight and you don't have duplicate filenames in different projects, as it will pick up the first file it finds with the same name.
For a mind bending read on file search routines CHECK THIS OUT 2016 SOLIDWORKS Help - Search Routine for Referenced Documents
Installing your software onto the SSD should not be a problem either. Back up your settings with copy settings wizard. Ensure you clean the reg etc when you uninstall. Once you've uninstalled everything you intend to move to the SSD run a defrag or 2 on the conventional drive.