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Creating a Benchmark HDD

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You could partition your HDD into two sections and have a smaller, bootable partition with Windows 10 and a secondary partition with all your games on it. This way, your games would be in one place and could easily move with you from computer to computer. On your main machine, boot into the SSD. In any other machine, boot into the HDD. Either way, your games are loaded on the HDD and will show up in windows.

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 So I've made a similar thread before however now I have bought me a 2TB SATA HDD. I see Linus and other tech channels use an SSD to test performance and while I do have a 1tb SSD it gets full rather fast considering how big games get these days. I just want to be able to hot-swap and test older and newer PCs without it being a pain. Should I install windows on the 2tb HDD and go on about moving all the games to it or is there another more efficient way to create a benchmark HDD with "windows to go install" for example. I want to hear others advise before the painfully slow process of moving a few 100 GB of games starts. 

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You could partition your HDD into two sections and have a smaller, bootable partition with Windows 10 and a secondary partition with all your games on it. This way, your games would be in one place and could easily move with you from computer to computer. On your main machine, boot into the SSD. In any other machine, boot into the HDD. Either way, your games are loaded on the HDD and will show up in windows.

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5 minutes ago, manicottimuffin said:

You could partition your HDD into two sections and have a smaller, bootable partition with Windows 10 and a secondary partition with all your games on it. This way, your games would be in one place and could easily move with you from computer to computer. On your main machine, boot into the SSD. In any other machine, boot into the HDD. Either way, your games are loaded on the HDD and will show up in windows.

good idea nobody had responded for so long so I just made the 2tb hdd like a regular drive with windows and games in 1 partition and was in the process of dealing with steam's bull of transferring games whilst also trying to make it work with my main pc. Why would you say the partition is necessary? 

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7 hours ago, VenomZ_ said:

good idea nobody had responded for so long so I just made the 2tb hdd like a regular drive with windows and games in 1 partition and was in the process of dealing with steam's bull of transferring games whilst also trying to make it work with my main pc. Why would you say the partition is necessary? 

Nice, that should work just as well but would just be a little bit more of a pain to format in the event that you needed to start fresh. 

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