Games and OS off the same drive?
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Yeap I agree OS one drive and games on another drive. Drive in question is a mech drive btw.
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The OS doesn't have to be on the SSD but you'll get much better performance putting the OS on the SSD and games on the mechanical drive than the other way round.
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For many years I have kept my O/S on a small HD and the rest of my junk on other HDs.
All my LAN PCs are running off a 60GB SSD and the games are on the HD, mostly on 320 or 500GB Drives.
My main PC however is :-
C: 60 SSD ( Windaz )
D: 1TB ( Games & Apps )
E: 1TB ( Media )
F: 160GB ( Misc junk )
T: 120GB SSD ( Torrents while downloading )
Having seperate HDs for Windows and other stuff certainly helps for sure, and often by a fair margin too!
Its not only that but I can convert WMV and AVI files into DVD format from E: to D: and also build up the DVD VOBs from D: back into a menued DVD on E: again, as well as burning 4 DVDs all at the same time as playing games and I see no real noticable slowdown at all...
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Even if you only have one large HD, I think that putting Windows onto a smaller partition helps to make your system a tiny bit better in that the disk wont fragment half as much as if you had everythign all in the one basket so to speak, so even before I went multiple HDs I did this and it helped immensely.
For what its worth, even my Laptop runs off one SSD and one HD and I bought an external DVD for if I ever needed to have one... It makes THAT much difference.
And besides, the extra speed you get from an SSD is for me well worth the cost.
All my LAN PCs are running off a 60GB SSD and the games are on the HD, mostly on 320 or 500GB Drives.
My main PC however is :-
C: 60 SSD ( Windaz )
D: 1TB ( Games & Apps )
E: 1TB ( Media )
F: 160GB ( Misc junk )
T: 120GB SSD ( Torrents while downloading )
Having seperate HDs for Windows and other stuff certainly helps for sure, and often by a fair margin too!
Its not only that but I can convert WMV and AVI files into DVD format from E: to D: and also build up the DVD VOBs from D: back into a menued DVD on E: again, as well as burning 4 DVDs all at the same time as playing games and I see no real noticable slowdown at all...
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Even if you only have one large HD, I think that putting Windows onto a smaller partition helps to make your system a tiny bit better in that the disk wont fragment half as much as if you had everythign all in the one basket so to speak, so even before I went multiple HDs I did this and it helped immensely.
For what its worth, even my Laptop runs off one SSD and one HD and I bought an external DVD for if I ever needed to have one... It makes THAT much difference.
And besides, the extra speed you get from an SSD is for me well worth the cost.
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OS and a 2 games on my SSD. Super quick and works well. Don't clog it up however, just Battlefield 3 & Skyrim on the SSD as the benefit over my mech drive.