NTFS Compression for Steam

[orangecat]

I currently run my steam library off a 640GB WD Blue in a external enclosure and the speed is fine but I was running out of space. The drive only had about 78MB left on it so i thought it was time to do something about it. I had a older 200GB Seagate laying around so i thought I might as well use that for my steam library since the entire Steam folder was about 210GB but I needed to compress it first. Compression took a few hours but ti was worth it. The entire Steam folder was 210GB and I was able to bring it down to 168GB so in total I saved about 43GB of space. Now I have not yet tested my loading times because the disk is going to be terribly fragmented but i will edit this post later on and tell you if they got worse or better.

 

[SteepGnomeKing]

I'm thinking of doing this also now. Running out of space on my HDD. All my main games are on my SSD, and if it doesn't effect load times to bad or cause any problems when running the game I'd be glad to do this.

[orangecat]

I'm thinking of doing this also now. Running out of space on my HDD. All my main games are on my SSD, and if it doesn't effect load times to bad or cause any problems when running the game I'd be glad to do this.

The only downside is more CPU usage but with modern multicore CPUs being so fast it really doesn't matter because it will maybe use 1% of the CPU to decode the compressed files.