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Nvidia Shadowplay and SSD optimisation

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Hello,

 

I made a new computer with a SSD (samsung 840 EVO 250 GB) and a 1TB HDD for storage.

 

I have read that it is important to lower the writes to the SSD to lengthen it's life. Thus I changed the location of documents, music, as well as from temporary files and internet files,... to my storage drive.

 

But I also plan on using Nvidia Shadowplay, but for 5 minutes at 1080p/60Fps it is about 1.9GB. This has to be stored somewhere right? My question is: Where is it stored? and what can I do to change the location( it will probably be on the SSD)?. I am talking about the temporary files of Shadowplay, not where it is stored when u press alt +F10.

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Greetings,

Sidekick Steve

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dude u must've heard that a long time ago, just plug and use ur ssd if your on windows 8/8.1! everything is fine u can apparently even use them as scratch disks now

see the great things about the technology these days is that you can choose where the files are stored. just choose your 1tb drive!

 

 

 

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By default, it's stored on the C drive. I assume that's your SSD. To change the location, go to Preferences in the tabs at the top. You'll see an option for Shadowplay. Click that.

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I really wouldn't worry, Our SSDs of today have many hundreds of terabytes of write (your SSD in question is about 155Terabytes) Assuming 1.8 Gigabytes per half hour of shadow-play storing, that would be 15.6 years of continuous usage (24/7, no breaks, ever) of constant Shadow play data. 

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It's a theoretical limit of SSD technology, but in reality it takes an ungodly amount of data to max out an SSD's write endurance.

 

Recording uses up an ungodly amount of data, that's the thing.

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Recording uses up an ungodly amount of data, that's the thing.

 

I know.  We are talking Petabytes here though, unless you get a low capacity low-end drive.

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