Anyone Have a Steam Drive?

oxygene · 16 Dec 2014 at 14:44

Dont take steamguage as gospel. I've just checked my account and its added games I dont own (Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare) and its its showing zero install size for lots of games like Rome Total War and STALKER SoC and some other multi gb games

ED209 · 16 Dec 2014 at 14:59

oxygene said:
Dont take steamguage as gospel. I've just checked my account and its added games I dont own (Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare) and its its showing zero install size for lots of games like Rome Total War and STALKER SoC and some other multi gb games

Games will appear in there if they are on a free weekend, i have noticed this as well.

COD Advance warfare is on a free multiplayer for the weekend and then so much off the retail game if you choose to buy it

once it ends it should disappear from your library

ED209 · 16 Dec 2014 at 15:01

ADT said:
I have all my games on a seperate 1tb drive. From what I read you don't really benefit from having them on an SSD except loading times. I haven't tried putting any games on my SSD but if I am wrong correct me.

speed is the only benefit from putting games on your SSD, on my SSD i have multiplayer games on there only which load maps each time.

all single player games and games that i am not fussed about loading times went on my HDD to save space on the SSD

w00dy85 · 16 Dec 2014 at 15:15

Like others, I have steam installed on my OS SSD and the games on a 500GB HDD. Though I have been thinking of swapping my games HDD for a SSHD or SDD.

oxygene · 16 Dec 2014 at 15:26

Currently I have a 60gb OS SSD which I had, like, half a game on when I started out and realised it wouldnt be enough. So theres the 60gb OS / Progs drive and a 250gb Games hd. Which is perminantly full! Need to move new games to backup drives when not playing them to make way for new ones.
But a dedicated steam drive doesnt sound a bad idea. I think I have a spare 1tb laying around somewhere...

ED209 · 16 Dec 2014 at 15:52

oxygene said:
Currently I have a 60gb OS SSD which I had, like, half a game on when I started out and realised it wouldnt be enough. So theres the 60gb OS / Progs drive and a 250gb Games hd. Which is perminantly full! Need to move new games to backup drives when not playing them to make way for new ones.
But a dedicated steam drive doesnt sound a bad idea. I think I have a spare 1tb laying around somewhere...

if you do then move the library over to that and away you go again.

should be fine once installed.

WuMyster · 16 Dec 2014 at 16:22

Well looking at 2TB drives, and SSHD's really arent that much more than standard HDD's. Surely it's a no brainer then?

EDIT: Scrap that, its a steam drive, so I doubt I will populate the SSD portion of the drive with "favourites" since I'll just store my library on it and play all sorts of games. Any recommendations for hard drives then?
I haven't actually purchased a hard drive in years. Also used old ones / SSD's

gareth170 · 16 Dec 2014 at 17:28

i have 3 2TB hdds for steam, 2 usb3 hdds and a internal hdd

tamzzy · 16 Dec 2014 at 17:54

i use a 1tb ssd for my steam drive. never looked back since...

Uther · 16 Dec 2014 at 18:04

Can also use 'steam mover' to move often played
games to an ssd.

WuMyster · 16 Dec 2014 at 18:37

Uther said:
Can also use 'steam mover' to move often played
games to an ssd.

I already have quite a few games on my SSD. But no where near large enough to keep my library. Didnt need to use steam mover. Installed the games i wanted by selecting my isntall location from steam.

littlepuppy · 16 Dec 2014 at 21:17

I would go for this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-293-SE

WuMyster · 18 Dec 2014 at 19:46

WD Black or Blue? Thinking of one of those two.

Audigex · 18 Dec 2014 at 20:41

Do you really play 900GB of games regularly?

Personally I put a handful of the games I play most frequently on an SSD, and a couple of the largest/slowest loading, and the rest live on the HDD. If I find myself playing something a lot for a couple of weeks, I just move it to the SSD.

WuMyster · 18 Dec 2014 at 21:10

I don't, but seeing as my library gets bigger and bigger, I want to create a drive and just store everything. Obviously, I will use it to store other things, but primarily for my games.

Orcvader · 18 Dec 2014 at 23:50

Recently got a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB for Steam/Origin and big programs, frees a fair bit of space on my 64GB boot drive and my 320GB documents drive (most of my multimedia is on external storage now anyway).

It feels odd being always one of the first people to finish loading in multiplayer games

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Disco_P · 19 Dec 2014 at 00:53

I personally recommend installing steam on your ssd such that you benefit from faster launch times of the program itself. Then create another library (from within steam) on a large HDD for storing games that you don't play much or don't benefit from an ssd. Use the ssd for games that you play a lot or want much faster load times from. It's easy enough to move games from one library to another, just find the app number from the steam store page then move the game folder and the corresponding appmanifest file from one library to the other.

But be very aware that HDD load times can be excruciatingly long in some games (bf4 etc) and if you want to keep 900GB of games around then you should look a 2TB HDD to allow for library growth.

BluD · 19 Dec 2014 at 01:48

I have 2 steam libraries, one on my 840pro and one on my 480g SSD. I tend to install games with a lot of loading onto my 840 just to get them loading screens as short as possible and just stick the rest on my other drive.

Im impatient though, im sure most people would just install everything onto the steam drive.