Installing Steam on a new build, need advice
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Kryztov
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What you said applied for hdd's that could only do one task at the same time with their physical disk spinning like a vinyl audio disk.
So games and windows could slow each other down sometimes.
With ssd's, this problem isn't existing anymore!
If your m2 ssd has enough space, just install it there, no issue in modern times
Kryztov was a bit faster. What he says is very true! I personally never had to re-install win7 or now win10 but I do keep my games on a separate ssd.
In my case for space reasons though.
So games and windows could slow each other down sometimes.
With ssd's, this problem isn't existing anymore!
If your m2 ssd has enough space, just install it there, no issue in modern times
Kryztov was a bit faster. What he says is very true! I personally never had to re-install win7 or now win10 but I do keep my games on a separate ssd.
In my case for space reasons though.
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My advice for hard drives and storage is:
Partition your large physical disk into one smaller Windows-drive, with maybe 50 to 100 GiB, and several game and data stores. In case you have to format Windows, you will have your games on another partition and they will be untouched later on. Steam itself is able to be installed and working from any partition and can nowadays install games to different drives (see its settings for this).
I can only urge you to partition larger drives no matter what. This applies to each and every data. And try not to save pictures and .documents etc. in those Windows folders.
Partition your large physical disk into one smaller Windows-drive, with maybe 50 to 100 GiB, and several game and data stores. In case you have to format Windows, you will have your games on another partition and they will be untouched later on. Steam itself is able to be installed and working from any partition and can nowadays install games to different drives (see its settings for this).
I can only urge you to partition larger drives no matter what. This applies to each and every data. And try not to save pictures and .documents etc. in those Windows folders.
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If possible, use an SSD for your game storage. Last year I added a 1TB M.2 nvme drive (not sata) as a dedicated game drive. I have some other locations as well for older titles I rarely play anymore. The load times on the nvme drive (J: ) is blazing fast compared to the mechanical drive partitions (G: and H: ).
I would still install steam on the C drive. Here's how you define your game library folder(s):
I would still install steam on the C drive. Here's how you define your game library folder(s):
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Yes I put all my steam games on a second hard drive that is separate to my windows hard drive, as said before in this thread saves having to reinstall all them if you have a windows problem and need to reformat and reinstall windows.
