Storage Problem

[Aninda Muktadir]

I'm using a 600GB HDD as boot drive. I install games on this HDD.But I'm currently running out of space. I've another 1TB HDD. Can I install games on the 1TB drive(Non boot drive)? and will there be any performance issues ?

[Amias]

Nope.

 

The game performance will be dependent on the hard drive type (SSD, Platter, NVMe) and interface into your PC (SATA, PCI etc).

[Aninda Muktadir]

@Amias Both are same 7200RPM HDD connected via SATA 6GB/s

[Ash_Kechummm]

There shouldn't be any difference in performance from what you usually experience launching games from your boot hard drive

[Amias]

Just now, Aninda Muktadir said:

@Amias Both are same 7200RPM HDD connected via SATA 6GB/s

Oofff. Really?

 

A platter harddrive ... you're looking at about 80-160 MB/s.

 

An SSD through SATA, (pretty much any SSD) would give you 550 MB/s.

 

An NVMe drive, ... 2000MB/s+

 

 

[Aninda Muktadir]

@Amias But the games don't need that much read speed. 

Sequential reed speed of Battlefield 1 is about 80-110MB/s

[Amias]

Just now, Aninda Muktadir said:

@Amias But the games don't need that much read speed. 

Sequential reed speed of Battlefield 1 is about 80-110MB/s

Urm. 

 

Okay. Once you're loaded. The game will run just fine. However that loading ... takes forever ... without an SSD?

 

 

 

[Aninda Muktadir]

@Amias sorry , I didn't get that 

[su01]

For game/program installs that don't need backups, i recommend RAID0

 

I put 6 drives in RAID0 and i get about 80% of the performance of SSDs for my particular use case. Not benchmarks, just general use.

 

I also only partitioned the first 80% of the volume to "short-stroke" it and get somewhat higher speeds.

 

I have also tried NVME drives and RAM drives but game loading times are not anywhere close to instant. I thought installing on a Samsung 970 NVME drive would make Witcher 3 load much faster but it's mostly about the same. So better to just use cheap drives in RAID0

[Amias]

11 minutes ago, Aninda Muktadir said:

@Amias sorry , I didn't get that 

Don't worry. But I couldn't recommend an SSD for your OS and games more. It will change the feel of your computer so much.

[Aninda Muktadir]

@Amias

Life of middle class family man  !!