Steem game library Question

[Avalon22]

hi, i plan to have multiple 2.5 SSD's in my upcoming PC build (not the boot drive thats a m.2 NVME ssd) so that i can have any steem game i play downloaded on it so if i want to play it on another pc/laptop or play the games offline in case the internet goes out then i can (i know that the offline part need games that are not online only or games that have a update pendding) so my Question is i usually in a PC build which has multiple 2.5 SSD's combine them into a single drive (like C for the boot drive and D for all other files and the games and lunchers) but it occured to me when/if something happens and i need to move the SSD's will it function? i mean on the pc the drive are pooled into a single deive D and i have lets say 5 games on it but i do not know which game is on which drive and does the game files seperate on multiple SSDs or do they stay in one (ok that was not clear, ok lets say i have 4 SSDs pooled into 1 drive D on windows i download a few games then i wanted to disconnect a drive will i find the game files on seperate SSds or will each game be complete on a specific drive) . Also which 2.5 SSD is best (gaming speed load time latency fps) to play games off it? 

[TetraSky]

If you set your drives in RAID, no, you can not just remove one of them and still have your data on both the drive you removed and still on the RAID array. If in RAID1 and you only have 2 drives, it might work if you create a Software RAID within Windows. But then you lose the benefit of pooling your drives together for your games, this is more for "backup" purpose and can be done much more safely without RAID with softwares that mirror your stuff and can be put in another PC whenever without a care for the RAID controller or OS or whatever.

 

Just get a single large capacity SSD or something instead of pooling them together.

 

Pretty much any 2.5 SSD from reputable brands will do fine. They all essentially reached the max speed on SATA 3. I quite like the Samsung EVO drives. 

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E4T0B-AM/dp/B08QBL36GF/

[OhioYJ]

Why not just have multiple library folders if you insist on having multiple drives? Don't put them in RAID. If you want to back up your Library folder, just back it up to a second drive. No issue. You can move that drive to another PC, also no issue.

 

I run my Steam Library from a 22 TB WD Gold drive, it gets backed up to the 18 TB Gold drive in also in my PC, as well as to my NAS. I've moved drives from build to build, no issue, reinstall Steam point it to the library folder, and it's good to go again (all of the drives were a primary drive at one point for my library).

 

[Avalon22]

thanks for the reply guys i think OhioYJ idea is best i will use multiple SSD's to download the games but like TetraSky mentioned SSD's are better at gaming performance than HDD's (the best is NVME SSD but those are too expensive and fail a lot lets just leave the OS boot drive on it) . thanks guys.