I have 3 Drives on my new computer, including a 2tb ssd. Which do I use for games?

Question

Hi, I studied for weeks and finally bought a home built computer. Unfortunately, I didn't do much research on this solid-state drive with 2 tarabits storage. Not sure what to do.

I have a 55.7gb physical drive (C:), which is not enough to install all my games.. or even halfof them. Second, I have something that says 360 as my (d:) drive with 97.5 gb, and finally a ssd with 2 TB. I have near 80gb of games I want to install but I'm not sure which one to install to, or even how to install to a solid-state drive.

Ive heard that ssd's are good for loading, as the information is readily available as appose to a physical drive.. the down side is its not good for retrieving information for games. Why is this? Should I still download games to the ssd?

I also heard its not good to install and remove programs very often on a ssd, which would mean its not the best place to install my games.

The other drives aren't big enough, so I'm really looking at the ssd to download all my games. Please help! I would like to figure this out and get it running with this awesome computer

Thanks in advance! Some specs below:


Asus Crosshair V motherboard(best AMD motherboard, overclocking options, 4 DIMM slots, can Crossfire or SLI 16-16-8)
AMD FX-4100 quad core 3.6Ghz(New architecture, pretty darn fast)
8GB G.SKILL Ripjaws.X DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
60GB Corsair Force III SATA 6gbps SSD
2TB Seagate 7200rpm hard drive
ATI Radeon 5870 1gb
Thermaltake 850 watt modular power supply
Big heatsink on the CPU, keeps it cool.

Answer 1

So it is clear that your main drive is your SSD (60GB) which is good. The 2 TB is your hard drive and is for storage. Store all your files on "d" and install what you can program wise on "c". 60 GB is not a lot of space to work with so you need to organize your system a bit. Some applications that you seldom use or are low intense as far as hard drive can be installed on "D" . A game that you use the most can be installed on "C". You should also move the paging file to "D'. This will save space and improve the performance of your SSD.

Answer 2

Your 2TB drive is most definitely not a SSD. Installing a game on an SSD decreases loading times a lot, but SSDs have much less storage space than a normal hard drive usually does.



Edit: Looking at your specs that you provided, your SSD is the 60GB drive, and your 2TB drive is a normal Seagate 7200RPM drive, that is not an SSD. If you don't have enough room to instal all of your games to the SSD, install only the ones that take a really long time to load onto the SSD, as it was make the games load faster.

Answer 3

You do not have a 2tb - ssd (they don't make one - if they did, it would cost a mint)

You DO have a 60 GB SSD (formatted 55.7) which is your fastest drive and contains the operating system on the "C" drive.

I don't know where you get the 'd' drive from: you do not list it in your specs. Maybe it's a partition on your 2 TB drive?

You do have a 2TB 'regular' (non-SSD) drive which is slower than the SSD but still reasonably fast.

Usually you want to install programs - including games on the fastest available drive. In your case, this is the SSD (C-drive). Whatever does not fit onto the C-drive will have to be installed elsewhere i.e the 2TB drive

Answer 4

definite, maximum SSDs incorporate application to flow each and every thing from the annoying stress besides. you like the SSD to your OS to velocity up boot situations. Use your annoying stress for information storage and momentary artwork documents.

Answer 5

you were lied to. SSDs are AWESOME at information retrieval (which would be "reading"). what they are POOR(er) at is information saving (writing). it takes longer to SAVE to an SSD than to access it.



since most games only READ the data, it would make sense to install your game to the SSD, especially with the abundance of space (2TB SSD?!? i want to have Christmas @ your house!).