A tip for those who want to 'split' their Steam folder between two drives

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Haven't seen this posted before...

I think this really applies to owners of medium-sized SSDs who can only fit a game or two besides Windows on their drives.

Anyway, this tool allows you to have Steam and your choice of Steam games on one drive, and the rest of your Steam games on another drive - works well for me - which is nice :D.

Just thought I'd share...

(Oh, and I'm nothing to do with the software or anything - it's just something I stumbled across earlier today on another forum).
 
This may prove very useful too me. I recently filled up my 111GB worth of SSD space and been looking for something like this. Was actually going to ask the question last week.

Nice one!
 
Think i'd stick with GSM if i ever need to use it since it has the obviously other helpful function of handling your save games too.
 
Looks like a very useful app.
I've been doing this for a while now by using the underlying link commands and have never had any issues.
The only problem this cannot solve is that Steam must be able to see enough free space on its installed drive before it will let you begin to download a new game, so you need to keep ~10GB free to use as 'temp' space.
 
jimmy29 said:
Looks like a very useful app.
I've been doing this for a while now by using the underlying link commands and have never had any issues.
The only problem this cannot solve is that Steam must be able to see enough free space on its installed drive before it will let you begin to download a new game, so you need to keep ~10GB free to use as 'temp' space.
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Shouldn't you do that anyway? I've always been under the impression that if a drive has next to no space left it'll cause slow down.
 
farmer said:
Doesn't affect SSD's

Older mech drives slow'd as they were filled tho.
For optimum speed mech hdd's should be less then 60% full iirc.
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Well nice to know it doesn't affect SSDs but i was referring to standard HDDs since he was saying you should keep a little space for games to download before you transfer them. Only having 10-20gb free would cause some nasty slowdown.
 
Brilliant, thanks. I was literally JUST thinking about how my SSD was full of a steam game I haven't played a while but didn't want to erase, this is perfect cheers. :)
 
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