Add a 2nd ssd or buy a bigger ssd

carlazai · 23 Dec 2014 at 13:33

Presently I have a 250gb Samsung 830, brilliant drive. I am starting to get annoyed with shifting games aroundbwih steam tool. Should I buy another ssd to have windows on 1 and games on the other or is a bigger 500gb ssd the faster read option?

ED209 · 23 Dec 2014 at 13:51

if you have the money I would get a 500GB drive but if you don't you can get another 250GB drive and either raid the drives or just install it as a second ssd and install most things to that

OLDPHART · 23 Dec 2014 at 15:41

I have a 256GB SSD for OS+apps and a 500GB SSD for games, ssd's are getting very fast no point in raid for most people.

carlazai · 23 Dec 2014 at 21:22

So i guess its a case of fork out for 500gb version, might as well semi-futureproof

ED209 · 24 Dec 2014 at 09:33

you can pickup a OCZ ARC 480GB SSD for £139.99 which its not a bad price or a Samsung Evo 840 512GB drive for £179.99 or even the 250GB 840 EVO for £89.99 so SSD prices are quite cheap now.

been considering buying another EVO for a second drive for games

bledd · 24 Dec 2014 at 11:40

I like having a Steam only drive..

I set mine as S:, then set the icon to the Steam logo.

bledd. said:
If anyone else wants to set a steam drive icon, download these and put them in the root of your Steam hard drive.

autorun.inf
steam.ico

You can set them as hidden files.

Need to reboot for it to take effect

Looks neat in Explorer

Hobbsie · 26 Dec 2014 at 20:24

trying to find a post/thread about getting more than 1 ssd, is it recommended in getting the same make/model of the 1st one? as i got an evo 840 in a sale today and wondering weather i should grab a 2nd as its a decent price?

Dreadhead · 1 Jan 2015 at 18:39

bledd. said:
I like having a Steam only drive..

I set mine as S:, then set the icon to the Steam logo.

Looks neat in Explorer

Nice tip. Thanks

ED209 · 1 Jan 2015 at 18:53

Dreadhead said:
Nice tip. Thanks

I have done this on my second SSD as well, does look good and I like it

Ronald · 3 Jan 2015 at 17:39

Hobbsie said:
trying to find a post/thread about getting more than 1 ssd, is it recommended in getting the same make/model of the 1st one? as i got an evo 840 in a sale today and wondering weather i should grab a 2nd as its a decent price?

I see no reason at all to match make/model on SSD's

For all intends and purposes RAIDing SSD's is not really worth it for almost all consumers, so just buy what is best at the time.