Hi All.
Had to do a complete re install of windows last night and got me thinking about how to handle my storage on this new install.
I used to have 4 SSD and 1 HDD all separate under their own drive letter.
I started to look into ways of combining the storage area I have on the SSD's and came across the different ways it could be done as per the title. For clarity I have one SSD with windows (wont change) and three SSD that simply hold Game installs (one for steam, one for Origin and one for other games)
My question is what way of doing it would be the best and is there any performance impact on the drives themselves? from my reading I understand the following
Spanned Volume:
Uses each drive in sequential order, therefore is one drive fails that is not yet been used you wont loose data on the other drives.
Striped Volume:
Data is written across all drives and you can only use the total drive volume if each drive is the same size?
Storage spaces:
This one is new to me... it sounds like Striped volume but drive size does not matter?
Also I have read about REFS file type which you can use when setting up storage spaces.. what would be the benefit if any and would there be any comparability problems?
My plan is to install the likes of Steam, origin, GOG on the windows drive then just install the games to the large volume of the SSD.
the whole volume will be backed up to a 2tb hard drive I have connected via USB3
Thanks in advance.
Had to do a complete re install of windows last night and got me thinking about how to handle my storage on this new install.
I used to have 4 SSD and 1 HDD all separate under their own drive letter.
I started to look into ways of combining the storage area I have on the SSD's and came across the different ways it could be done as per the title. For clarity I have one SSD with windows (wont change) and three SSD that simply hold Game installs (one for steam, one for Origin and one for other games)
My question is what way of doing it would be the best and is there any performance impact on the drives themselves? from my reading I understand the following
Spanned Volume:
Uses each drive in sequential order, therefore is one drive fails that is not yet been used you wont loose data on the other drives.
Striped Volume:
Data is written across all drives and you can only use the total drive volume if each drive is the same size?
Storage spaces:
This one is new to me... it sounds like Striped volume but drive size does not matter?
Also I have read about REFS file type which you can use when setting up storage spaces.. what would be the benefit if any and would there be any comparability problems?
My plan is to install the likes of Steam, origin, GOG on the windows drive then just install the games to the large volume of the SSD.
the whole volume will be backed up to a 2tb hard drive I have connected via USB3
Thanks in advance.