My steam folder : I am an idiot.

[FatRakoon]

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.

 

[FatRakoon]

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.

 

[FatRakoon]

It seems like you are making things way to complicated for yourself. Like way overboard.

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?

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 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.