Adding additional SSD to my rig.

[GirthZilla]

Long story short I ran out of space on my samsung 512GB ssd. I went out and bought another ssd in hopes of expanding my storage. I don't fully understand how it works but i assumed that if I plugged it in and my computer recognizes it all would work seamless as in stuff would just download to the second drive as soon as the first was full. Where my issue comes in is Arma 3 has a 10GB update and i cant update it because there's not enough storage however i have 500GB free on my other drive. Is there away around this where i move my game to the other drive or do I have to change something in my bios. I just basically just want all new data to download straight to the new drive, idk if got the setup wrong. Do i need to set up a raid? Idk Anything helps!

 

Ps. there is already one file that looks to be a game i never play on the second drive so i know the drive works 

- drives are just setup in simple layout

-FILE SYSTEM (NTFS)

[Moress]

8 minutes ago, GirthZilla said:

Long story short I ran out of space on my samsung 512GB ssd. I went out and bought another ssd in hopes of expanding my storage. I don't fully understand how it works but i assumed that if I plugged it in and my computer recognizes it all would work seamless as in stuff would just download to the second drive as soon as the first was full. Where my issue comes in is Arma 3 has a 10GB update and i cant update it because there's not enough storage however i have 500GB free on my other drive. Is there away around this where i move my game to the other drive or do I have to change something in my bios. I just basically just want all new data to download straight to the new drive, idk if got the setup wrong. Do i need to set up a raid? Idk Anything helps!

 

Ps. there is already one file that looks to be a game i never play on the second drive so i know the drive works 

- drives are just setup in simple layout

-FILE SYSTEM (NTFS)

You need to move Arma to the other drive

[Slottr]

Add a folder on the new drive for your steam games, then in steam add that drive location as another steam library

[Guest]

SSD drives which become full, become slower. It's recomended that you don't fill up your SSD's above 70%. There is an technical explanation, google can tell you.

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

SSD drives which become full, become slower. It's recomended that you don't fill up your SSD's above 70%. There is an technical explanation, google can tell you.

I'd like to hear this.

100% full is slower, but AFAIK anything under 99% is fine.

[RadiatingLight]

if you want, you can set up a software RAID 0, which combines both your drives into what looks like one 1TB SSD. however, keep in mind that if one SSD fails, all data is lost on both drives.

 

alternatively, just move the game over to the empty SSD

[GirthZilla]

So steam says i cant move it because i have an update I'm going to try moving some other games

 

[Guest]

@RadiatingLight One of the sources, however they talk about 75%. (it's an indication, other sites may use higher or lower percentages) Don't know how reputable this site is, but there are lots of other sites who tell you the same kind of thing.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/165542/why-solid-state-drives-slow-down-as-you-fill-them-up/