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Hi guys. I’ve been having a problem lately where Steam literally takes about 20 MINUTES to boot. Is this because I don’t have an ssd? Or is it maybe caused by something else? Please help me I’m so frustrated. 

I got a ps5 and a pc pretty ballin

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How full is the hdd steam is on? Is the drive fragmented to hell or relatively defragged? A ssd would be quicker but 20 min is quite extreme, sounds like more major issues, what are pc specs?

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The HDD is a 500-gb, probably a fifth of it is being used up, it’s really not fragmented barely at all.  

 

Here's the specs. 

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon II X4 650
  • Motherboard
    N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
  • RAM
    8GB DDR3
  • GPU
    MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4G
  • Case
    Some crap hp thing
  • Storage
    HGST 500GB 2.5 inch SATA Drive (pulled from a PS4)

 

(Forget the GPU is there, I can’t use it with this system yet.)

I got a ps5 and a pc pretty ballin

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2.5" HDDs tend to run at 5400 rpm so yeah a ssd should help a bit, at least make things more usable until you upgrade the rest of the system

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It's your operating system. I can 100% tell you are on some variants of windows. Clean install that thing. 

Sudo make me a sandwich 

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Ok yeah I’m running windows 7 home premium. I’ve been dreading it but I think I’ll have to upgrade to Windows 10

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How long have you had the harddrive for? Your HDD might be starting to fail and this is generally an indicator. 

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I don’t actually know how old the drive is. I bought a refurbished PS4 from GameStop and I pulled that drive out of it. Swapped it for a 2tb Firecuda SSHD. If I bought another firecuda, would that get rid of the need for an ssd?

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50 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

I don’t actually know how old the drive is. I bought a refurbished PS4 from GameStop and I pulled that drive out of it. Swapped it for a 2tb Firecuda SSHD. If I bought another firecuda, would that get rid of the need for an ssd?

Considering what price they are, you are better off just getting 500gb/1tb SSD. Even 500gb SSD will be enough for you OS, games and other software.

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