Don't panic.
You can redirect your "My Documents" folder over to the larger drive. That's half the battle.
If you can figure out where PD keeps its temporary files, and I can't say for sure that I've found them all, then you can redirect those folders over to the larger drive as well. That's the second half of the battle.
Now here's where you can start to cry in your beer: once you've moved all of this stuff over to the SATA drive,
you aren't going to get any advantage from the SSD! The only reason for having an SSD is to make file access faster, but the very files that are most active will now be on your SATA drive. You won't have anything on the SSD but Windows and your programs' code, and unless you are short on memory (and you won't be) the code isn't read very often.
The long and the short of it is that I wouldn't buy an SSD drive for this purpose. I'd go with the fastest hard drive that I could afford, instead. I'm not even sure I'd bother having two drives, rather than one big one; but I'm not familiar enough with the file access patterns of PD to say for sure. I suspect that it tends to be more linear than random, so seek time won't be the big issue until your drive gets badly fragmented.
This is just my opinion, and the fundamental rule in performance analysis and capacity planning is "It depends."
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Jerry Schwartz
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