SSD + HD = confusion

I've been reading a lot about how expensive SSD's are, but how incredibly fast and awesome they are.  And it seems like a good build would involve having an SSD for the primary drive and an HD for a secondary drive.

If I get a 120GB SSD drive and install the operating system on it.  Then can I use a second hard drive...say the 1 TB Western Digital drive to install other things on? or just use it for storage (music, videos, files)...

Would I want to install games on the SSD drive and therefore take advantage of it's read/write speeds?...but 120 GB is not that much.  Or does the read/write speeds of the SSD not really effect the fps of a game while it's running?

Can someone help me figure this out? 

Thanks

What if I installed a game on hard drive 2, can I still run it?

Originally posted by bprat22 Yes.  The desktop shortcut would have it's target/ path to the HDD.Â

Sorry about that dumb question man.. haha it's been a while since I played games on PC. My last PC didn't have a partition either. lol

Originally posted by bprat22   No such thing as dumb questions on the forum.Â

Originally posted by xii Originally posted by Teemberland Sorry about that dumb question man.. haha it's been a while since I played games on PC. My last PC didn't have a partition either. lol Well technically it did.  It had 1 partition which was the main partition.Partitions are segments of space, like one big building being full of apartments, where each apartment is a partition.  Apartment A being the "A Drive", Apartment B, being the "B drive" and do on.The data in the partitions being the residents.Tada, partitions made simple.

Partition 101 for ya!