Why would moving my documents folder off my hard drive improve my general pcs performance?

[Salem Graves]

My pc is old and my C drive (hdd) is hot garbo. I have an external drive that I play games on but was having issues with CK3 and I had the idea to move my documents folder off my C drive and onto my external and that actually improved the performance of CK3 a lot, but not just CK3, my entire computer seems to be running a lot more smoothly and quicker. Any idea why this is?

[Crazy Tiger]

The save files for CK3, and lots of other files for other programs, are saved in the My Documents folder. So stuff that requires regular access to that folder will run better if said folder is on a better functioning drive.

[The Giving One]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Crazy Tiger:

The save files for CK3, and lots of other files for other programs, are saved in the My Documents folder. So stuff that requires regular access to that folder will run better if said folder is on a better functioning drive.

This....

If your old PC has an HDD (platter drive) and you moved things to an external, then that external is probably a flash or stick drive (SSD) so that is maybe why you see some improvement.

Also, you might need to be careful if the old drive is an HDD as they can sometimes fail.

It might be fragmented heavily also. More information would be needed. Antivirus programs can also slow things down, depending on how they are set up.

[Salem Graves]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Giving One:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Crazy Tiger:

The save files for CK3, and lots of other files for other programs, are saved in the My Documents folder. So stuff that requires regular access to that folder will run better if said folder is on a better functioning drive.

This....

If your old PC has an HDD (platter drive) and you moved things to an external, then that external is probably a flash or stick drive (SSD) so that is maybe why you see some improvement.

Also, you might need to be careful if the old drive is an HDD as they can sometimes fail.

It might be fragmented heavily also. More information would be needed. Antivirus programs can also slow things down, depending on how they are set up.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's failing, my computer has slowly been deteriorating in performance but I'm not in a position to do anything about it other than wait for it to die and then be sad. I have windows defender and I usually have to have it's protection disabled because it likes to hold my computer hostage a lot of the time.

[Nx Machina]

You should always have your documents folder on another drive as well as your pictures, music, video folders in case your system drive (windows) fails completely and you lose everything.

Secondly having moved these folders to another drive you should also backup those folders on a regular basis to an external hdd for safekeeping.