Steam Games and a SSD drive

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I'm thinking of buying a C300 64GB primarily for booting Win 7. I use my computer mainly for gaming and have around 80GB of games in Steam.

Would it be possible to move a few games such as CS:Source over to SSD and then leave the rest on my 500GB Samsung F3?
 
Yup you can - I run a bunch of the cheapy patriot SSD this way - 1 game per partition and map the game folders from the steam install to a drive using disk manager in windows. Much faster game loading.
 
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sorry for a minor hijack, but is it possible to do the same sort of thing without having to stick your games in the steam folder initially?

reason i ask is that i want steam.exe on my ssd, but don't want to install 100Gb+ on there just to move it back to where it is at the moment.
 
why have steam on the ssd? its relatively small so opens quick anyway, but if you have it on another hdd it makes life easier installing the games etc

i dont see any advantage of running steam dir on the ssd.
 
when my pc boots, there is a portion of the loading time in which the hard disks are going mental; the only thing on them is steam so figured it would load it a tiny bit quicker, tis all.
 
twist3d0n3 said:
sorry for a minor hijack, but is it possible to do the same sort of thing without having to stick your games in the steam folder initially?

reason i ask is that i want steam.exe on my ssd, but don't want to install 100Gb+ on there just to move it back to where it is at the moment.
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It is possible to do, you can of course install steam on the SSD with all your games, then move the less frequently used games that take up too much space to another drive of your choice.

Just don't forget that every time you get a new game you will need sufficient space on the SSD for the download to work/unpack/install
 
JC said:
It is possible to do, you can of course install steam on the SSD with all your games, then move the less frequently used games that take up too much space to another drive of your choice.

Just don't forget that every time you get a new game you will need sufficient space on the SSD for the download to work/unpack/install
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yeah that's kinda what i want to avoid, as i've got steam installed on a raid array (raid 0) but want the exe to launch from the ssd (be quicker at boot) and quieter as the hd's (samsung f1's) are a tiny bit noisy..
 
just install steam to the ssd, then symlink the steamapps to another drive.

then when ever u install a new game, they will go onto the other drive automatically.

i actually put the common folder inside steamapps instead, so the few valve games i use are the SSD (mainly team fortress) while the other games get installed into common, so they will goto my raptor instead
 
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