Is a 120gb SSD big enough for ARK?

[Varia]

I've read stories of people not having enough space on their 120gb SSDs and then I read that if you reinstall the game it's a lot smaller. If it means reinstalling often I'd be content with that, but if it's too big for a 120gb drive then that's a huge problem.

[=Sarsante=]

Depends, if you play island and maybe SE its.

If you want sland, SE, center, ragnarok, primitive+, annunaki its not.

Ark needs a lot of free space to update, the game itself only considering island and no mods has around 65gb.

But things starts to pile up, with SE and the center plus few mods goes to 80gb and I would say thats the max you xan get.on a 120gb because of the free space required for updates.

Then you add Ragnarok, thats 20gb

[Photek]

Originally posted by Thoth:

I've read stories of people not having enough space on their 120gb SSDs and then I read that if you reinstall the game it's a lot smaller. If it means reinstalling often I'd be content with that, but if it's too big for a 120gb drive then that's a huge problem.

no

the game is min 80-90gb in size

if you have a 5gb patch in ark you need 35gb extra for patching

mods are extra gb

and, ssd gets shredded by ark, one of my 480 ssd died too soon because of this game

so if it has to be ssd 240gb at least only for this game...

[Vesuvius]

Not realy no..... 500g minimum or you will run out of room.... or just run your os off the 120 and keep ark on your hdd.

[=Sarsante=]

Originally posted by Photek:

Originally posted by Thoth:

I've read stories of people not having enough space on their 120gb SSDs and then I read that if you reinstall the game it's a lot smaller. If it means reinstalling often I'd be content with that, but if it's too big for a 120gb drive then that's a huge problem.

no

the game is min 80-90gb in size

if you have a 5gb patch in ark you need 35gb extra for patching

mods are extra gb

and, ssd gets shredded by ark, one of my 480 ssd died too soon because of this game

so if it has to be ssd 240gb at least only for this game...

Its not, Ive Island, SE, center and few mods = 81gb

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Originally posted by Photek:

no

the game is min 80-90gb in size

if you have a 5gb patch in ark you need 35gb extra for patching

mods are extra gb

and, ssd gets shredded by ark, one of my 480 ssd died too soon because of this game

so if it has to be ssd 240gb at least only for this game...

Its not, Ive Island, SE, center and few mods = 81gb

Think he's refering to the way steam doubles everything when unpacking... not the final size.

[margalus]

120GB ssd is pretty much useless for any purpose except as a boot drive.

If you want to put programs or games on an ssd y ou need to go bare minimum 500, but even that isn't really enough unless you only have 3 or 4 games.

[AgeAgainst]

I have a 120gb SSD for Ark. Here is a list of my mods:

Structures +, Pillars +, Platforms +, Ozocraft, Stargate Worlds, Classic Fliers, Meat Spoilers, 6 Eco Mods and Survival Plus. Yes, 17 mods. I'm due to delete some because I never really got that interested in a few of them.

My Ark install takes up 84 gb. If you're not afraid of symbolic links, you can put the temp and download folders onto a different drive. Sure, mods/patches will be slow installing since it has to copy data from one drive to another and especially slow if the other drive is a mechanical drive. Bottom line though, you can make Ark work on a 120gb SSD by using symbolic links. If you don't want to use symbolic links then no, 120gb isn't big enough.


https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/205115-question-about-ssd-storage-space/#comment-1149371

Last post in that thread has information on how to get symbolic links working.

[=Sarsante=]

Originally posted by AgeAgainst:

I have a 120gb SSD for Ark. Here is a list of my mods:

Structures +, Pillars +, Platforms +, Ozocraft, Stargate Worlds, Classic Fliers, Meat Spoilers, 6 Eco Mods and Survival Plus. Yes, 17 mods. I'm due to delete some because I never really got that interested in a few of them.

My Ark install takes up 84 gb. If you're not afraid of symbolic links, you can put the temp and download folders onto a different drive. Sure, mods/patches will be slow installing since it has to copy data from one drive to another and especially slow if the other drive is a mechanical drive. Bottom line though, you can make Ark work on a 120gb SSD by using symbolic links. If you don't want to use symbolic links then no, 120gb isn't big enough.


https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/205115-question-about-ssd-storage-space/#comment-1149371

Last post in that thread has information on how to get symbolic links working.

Thanks for this link, I dont need it but Im curious and that is very cool

[Singrave]

get 256gb for ark only

[Speedbump]

Not really. ARK and SE here, no mods when updating and I still need to delete SeekFreeContent first. Only thing other than ARK that I have on the SSD is Windows so if you didn't have Windows then yeah I guess.
120gb SSD is only 111 by the way.

[Singrave]

only noobs install games onto OS drive :-/

[Speedbump]

Originally posted by lameover:

only noobs install games onto OS drive :-/

That's not true. I only have the one SSD and my hard drive is fullish.

[Singrave]

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Originally posted by lameover:

only noobs install games onto OS drive :-/

That's not true. I only have the one SSD and my hard drive is fullish.

it's not an excuse

really good manner nowadays is to have several SSDs\HDDs
-128gb SSD for OS, page file and office software only
-1-2TB fast HDD for games
-2-4TB HDD file store
(optional) 256-512 SSD for Heavy games like ARK.

[Speedbump]

It is an excuse. If I had the money I'd have more than an SSD and one hard drive, but I don't. I know what works best I just can't have that kind of setup.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Originally posted by lameover:

only noobs install games onto OS drive :-/

That's not true. I only have the one SSD and my hard drive is fullish.

Join the rest of the planet and get a PROPER hard drive.