My steam folder : I am an idiot.

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I have been messing about with my steam folder.

That alone says I have been an idiot right off the bat, but hey, I have been doing this for many many years on and off.

Anyway, my steam folder is stored in D:\Games\Steam\

I have it like this on my main PC, and the D: Drive right now is a Seagate Hybrid 2TB as I upped from the WD Black 1TB just as I was starting to hit the full mark, and I a was not happy about spending 120 quid on a 2TB drive even if it IS a WD Black... I think I will do now actually cos the seagate drives are rubbish, even though I keep wasting mony on them.

But anyway, what I have been doing, is that I have been moving some games to and from the D: onto either my C: ( SSD ) or my R: ( RamDisk so even quicker than SSD ) ans since my main PC has a great 32GB, I normally use 16GB of it for a RamDisk, andthis is great for speeding up things like installing VMs and such, but also for dumping a load of my Steam games into it, and I have turned the RAM disk into a 24GB Drive and 8GB is plenty to do all my trials with many of my games.

You may be aware, that as long as you copy the right appmanifest_XX.acf files from the steamapps folder, and the game folder from the common folder, into wherever yo uwant it ( And opf course you set that in the Steam options to be a steam folder of course ) then it will see it and use it.

This has done me well for all of my experiments just fine.

Anyway, earlier on yesterday, something went silly on me,and the last bunch of games that I tested out, ( about 18GB of them ) stopped working and I had to fully reload them all?

My internet is not the best in the world, and so its a bit of a bummer to have to download, but me, being me, and as I have my steam stuff in my main PC , my laptop, and my Linux PC and Linux Laptop and my hackintosh, plus, I also copy my entire Steam collection onto a 2TB External drive that I have bougt purely for this reason, I was fully able to copy the files back.

So, I plugged the drive in anc simply copied the entire STEAM folder overwriting any files, and it took bloody ages to do.

Anyway, couple of hours later, I check it and it was all finally done.

Here is the real moment of idiocy...

Instead of copying the files back from the RamDisk into the common folder, I just moved them into the downloading folder... I had done it one below, like a dork, and as I had done it so many times, I was simply being arrogant about it all and I must have rushed it all.

So, I have wasted a day and a half on doing all of this when I could have saved myself all the time by simply making sure that I had copied the files in the first place!

Just something to take the piddle out of me... Sorry another reason to take even more out of me.
 
It seems like you are making things way to complicated for yourself. Like way overboard.

Especially when it comes to the Ramdisk, they barely make any difference compared to an SSD.

See here, here and here.

I severely doubt there is much point in grabbing a WD black nowadays, warranty is the only thing going for them. Grab a 500GB SSD and stop making things complicated.
 
I'll be honest, maybe i am a bit slow, but I have no idea what's going on here. As above, buy aN SSD, use it as a steam library and stop faffing about?
 
Go for 1TB if you can. Just purged my steam library and it's still chewing up 440gb. Then there's origin, uplay, epic, oculus, to go alongside it.
 
its not 1995 anymore just get a ssd put on games you actually play probably wont be even close to 500 gb. so grab ssd.no more stress.

we all have loads of games the amount you play regular will only often be a handful.

i wouldnt even use a normal mech drive now unless it was for storing a large amount of something. ssds are cheap.so much faster.
 
I have done away with mechanical drives altogether now and have a 250Gb SK Hynix SL301 as my C: drive and a 960GB Sandisk Ultra II for Steam and other games. While they are not as fast as Samung Evo 850's they are not far off and you can't tell the difference apart from benching them anyway. The best part is that I got them both on offer and only paid £42 delivered for the SK Hynix and £156 for the Sandisk. It saves a lot of messing around moving games from one drive to another when they are all on fast drives to start with.
 
hornetstinger said:
using 1TB WD Black for my games. Plenty fast enough like loading a game in a few seconds. What's the problem? LOL
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Fast enough for some isnt fast enough for others, i went full SSD about 3 years ago, bought a 840pro for boot drive and a slower 500gb for games, i mainly did it for noise as the hardrive was much louder than the rest of my system. You do notice the speed difference in loading, installing and moving around files though.
 
Some games benefit very little from an ssd whereas others see a huge reduction in loading times. BF4 takes around 7 years to load a vanilla map from a hdd whereas an ssd only takes a few seconds.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
its not 1995 anymore just get a ssd put on games you actually play probably wont be even close to 500 gb. so grab ssd.no more stress.

we all have loads of games the amount you play regular will only often be a handful.
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We all have excessive steam libraries and I'd rather have the potential games available when I take the fancy rather than waiting for a download.

Save yourself the hassle and get a larger drive and let it fill up.
 
Woah there everyone...

I was purely doing this all to actually test the speeds.

My C: on all my PCs are SSD and I usually like WD Blacks.

My main Gaming Laptop is running off an M2 for C: and a pair of 1TB Samsung Evo SSDs ( raided ) so I am more than sorted for speed.

In a surprising number of games, there is little no no difference betwen SSD and normal HD too, because many games have to do lots of processing etc that requires time.

The games that I play for example are absolutely no faster directly from RAMDisk and so if they are no faster that way, then wasting even more money on yet another SSD is just ludicrous.

That said... I did use a 480 for just my most common games for a while, but I used that 480 in my kids Laptop as an emergency, and I found that moving the games back to the HD wasnt really noticeably any slower.

That said, my Gaming Laptop is all pure SSD and I am raiding a pair of 1TB SSDs and that is just sickeningly quick.
 
Disco_P said:
It seems like you are making things way to complicated for yourself. Like way overboard.
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Agreed. I am mostly doing things like this purely out of boredom for the most part, I think its easier than I make it out cos I am going nuts about it all. I kmade it more complex when there was no need to have done?

Disco_P said:
I severely doubt there is much point in grabbing a WD black nowadays, warranty is the only thing going for them. Grab a 500GB SSD and stop making things complicated.
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I like WD because it IS a nippy drive, and yes, the warranty can make all the difference... I feel that my data is safe with a WD. If they are willing to offer a 5 year warranty, then they are comfortable that the drives are reliable.

I accept that this does not automatically make your data safe for 5 years, I know that, but I certainly feel happier with WD Black Drives.

Have used them for quite a few years now on all my PCs and I have never had an issue with a single one.

I think I can say with some accuracy, that I have about 9 of them in machines running right now.
 
Wow talk about over complicated! I used to keep my steam folder and other games on a 1TB SSD but I found once I'm in a game it made very little difference to mechanical and yearned for more cheaper storage. I sold the 1TB SSD for a good price and now have a 250GB SSD for Windows and a 6TB Toshiba 7200rpm mechanical drive with a 3TB partition for games and couldn't be happier. When I can get a 6TB SSD for sub £200 I'll ditch mechanical but till then mechanical stays :)
 
I have three steam folders, one on a 500gb ssd which is the primary, one on a 250gb mechanical and one on my server for any overspill. big games go on the ssd and when im done moved over to one of the other two folders. Sod messing arround with the manifest files though. I just move >> uninstall in steam >> reinstall in steam, chose new folder where game is and done. It'll pick up the existing files and away you go.
 
erm steammover.exe ?

I have most of my games on a raid 0 2x 1tb samsung 7200's from back in the day :), and a ssd for some.

my dads ended up with like 4 or 5 ssd's :/
 
My games library is 500gb. F that and f getting a ssd

just buy a massive 2 or 3tb 7200rpm and you'll be happy and never have to worry again

laaadeeeedaaaa
 
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