Noticable performance differences with Steam on an SSD vs an HDD ?

[GWARslave119]

Anyone notice any gains/losses of any aspect of Steam when installing Steam on either medium? Asking because I really like the feature on the Steam website where you can remote install games in your entire playlist, so I can just click click click. Only thing is it installs where Steam itself is located, so i'm having to move the install folders after the fact, more time consuming.

[ReBoot]

The only difference ar loading times. Well, theres few exceptions like Arkham Knight which are simply broken and may not run off an HDD at all, but its really only about loading times (I have to add though that games like Killing Floor 2 and Shadow of War become rather painful tests of patience from an HDD).

But if you're moving after the fact anyway, why not put Steam where you want the games to go?

[GWARslave119]

Game performance isn't the issue, I meant the steam client itself, if there's any slowdowns running it off of an hdd. I have 3 hard drives and 4 partitions, so the games go in each partition depending on if i play them a lot, and/or if they are hardware demanding type games, or have bugs otherwise, i.e. last time I ran a game called Submerged on my hdd, it had audio issues, which I read was because of the unreal engine and was fixed once i moved it to one of my ssd's. Most of the games I install from the website are games that I don't play a lot or haven't tried yet, so I want those moved to my "storage" (hdd) drive, but right now Steam is currently installed on one of my ssd drives, so it's a constant download/move/download/move

[ReBoot]

Steams loading time is dominated by network I/O, no SSD can help that. Put Steam into your HDD, keep it there.
I will personally have Steam & far most games on my HDD and only a few selected ones on the SSD. One partition each.

[Satoru]

Steam is an app on top of a browser

Other than minimal load times Improvements there’s not that much of a difference

Games by and large don’t benefit from being on SSD or the improvements are minimal. The only real in game benefits would be to minimize hitching and texture pop in, in open world games as the game loads assets in the background.

With regards to patching you might see some improvements in speed but you’ll likely hit a ceiling as the process is more CPU limited than IO limited

[G.Paws]

It’s sad really wish there is a instant load time just like other browsers

[Samurai]

Originally posted by G.Paws:

It’s sad really wish there is a instant load time just like other browsers

You bumped a three year old thread, that had nothing to do with what you just said,

[Roger]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.