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My friend told me that when I use my 120 GB SSD that has my Windows 10 to games and other apps is slowing it down and not recommended. I have downloaded about 40GB worth of stuff to the SSD plus the Windows 10. Should I listen to my friend or just ignore his complaining ?

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1 minute ago, Qrko said:

My friend told me that when I use my 120 GB SSD that has my Windows 10 to games and other apps is slowing it down and not recommended. I have downloaded about 40GB worth of stuff to the SSD plus the Windows 10. Should I listen to my friend or just ignore his complaining ?

It should still be fine however I'd still advise you aswell to get a 250 GB one cause you might want to have more on it in the future. Also those windows updates can grow a little big over time.

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ignore him, you should use a HDD for bulk storage like pictures and games that dont fit on your SSD but only 40GB? thats fine

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i put frequently played games on my SSD, as well as windows and all of my softwares

 

it doesnt matter for an SSD to be filled up or have it's data "fragmented", it won't affect the speed much

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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Honestly, I install my games to my Hard drive then use GameSave Manager to move then to my SSD while playing them full time, when I am done (not playing that often or beat the game, or find that the move does not help the load times) the program has a nice feature to move it back. (it remembers all the things it moves).

 

Just Fyi it uses junctions to trick the OS into thinking it is still installed in the default place. I have personally had 0 problems with junctions (both those made by this program and one's i have done manually) but some persons have.

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Ideally you should keep 25% of your drive free. Other than that, go nuts and fill it up. You won't see the same performance from a 128gb drive as a 250gb though, so it won't be super fast from the get go. I'd consider an upgrade to a 1tb drive in the future, at the prices they're dropping to they're an excellent option.

 

32 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

i put frequently played games on my SSD, as well as windows and all of my softwares

 

it doesnt matter for an SSD to be filled up or have it's data "fragmented", it won't affect the speed much

Mmm, not entirely true. You shouldn't fill an SSD to capacity.

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