SSDs and Steam

[Britton777]

I was going to get an SSD to store Windows 8.1 and a few other things on, as well as the base of Steam (And have the games downloaded to an HHD), but from my understanding, SSDs don't do well when written to non stop, which is what Steam will basically do.  Would this cause the SSD to die faster, or should I just opt for a hybrid drive to handle Steam?  

[Damikiller37]

As long as you keep your games on a separate HDD then having just the Steam application on the SSD shouldn't be a problem. Programs for things such as video/music editing would be the ones to constantly rewrite data and not so much for ordinary software like Steam.

[nokturrduk84]

I use it that way: Steam on SSD, steam games on HDD. Works good, still alive as you see.

[TheProfosist]

I would just setup steam on your other drive if thats where you want all your games installed as it just simplifies things. Also certain stuff must go into the main steam directory sometimes even when you install to another drive.

[kichilron]

I don't really see the plus-side of having Steam on the SSD when your games aren't. There isn't really going to a huge benefit other than maybe the launchtime of Steam itself - but that is in most cases not really a problem anyway.

[Si3Rra_7]

I have steam on ssd, and only games i care about load times in ( cs:go ) , and my other games on the HDD

[FizzyFantom]

SSD flash tends to be pretty hardy in new drives. The calls can handle tens of thousands of writes each, so you probably shouldn't worry about writing the SSD to death with Steam unless you plan to keep it for decades.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time/

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184619-how-long-do-modern-consumer-ssds-actually-last-longer-than-youd-expect

[2sysel2]

Well there shouldn't be a problem with what you want to do, but it sounds a bit pointless because you will not gain any boost other than faster steam launch (most parts of steam are basically Web pages)

[Columbo]

I have Steam on my OS drive which is SSD. I have most of my games on my other drive array but my most played games on the SSD. I thought about putting Steam on my magnetic RAID 0 array but figured since I play some games on my SSD, I didn't want lag. It was mostly theoretical. 

[Vortex1496]

I have a 60GB Intel ssd as a cashed drive for a HDD. this would probably the best way to kill an ssd and its still alive for about a year now. So you should be fine.

[TheProfosist]

I have a 60GB Intel ssd as a cashed drive for a HDD. this would probably the best way to kill an ssd and its still alive for about a year now. So you should be fine.

It's an Intel drive your fine. I still have my launch 40GB one use. This is why I got a 850 Pro 128GB as the cache drive for my 2TB comes drive though.

[Vortex1496]

It's an Intel drive your fine. I still have my launch 40GB one use. This is why I got a 850 Pro 128GB as the cache drive for my 2TB comes drive though.

I think 60 is all you can have for cache if I remember correctly with Intel RST.

[TheProfosist]

I think 60 is all you can have for cache if I remember correctly with Intel RST.

Im using a Marvell controller on my X79 Deluxe. Ive never used the intel one as ive never needed to.