Installing steam on OS drive or Second drive ?

[Rapte]

I'm getting a new PC soon with a 512 Go m.2 ssd where the Operating System will be installed.
I've also purchased a 4TB m.2 ssd for downloading my games on.

Should I install the steam application on my Operating System drive and forward my game library to the 4TB drive ?

or

Install the steam application on that 4TB drive with having the game library on the same drive ?

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Would it make a difference in performance ? Anyone tested does two options ?

ps: both have around the same Read and Write speed.

[Omega]

I would just put it on the main drive since this makes it easier to manage your applications and games.

If you ever reinstall you can just point Steam at the game library and it will detect everything again. If you put Steam on the 2nd drive and then reinstall you will have issues such as that Steam does not appear in your application list, this forces you to manually add it back, create shortcuts etc..

The performance will depend on which drives you bought. Since they are both NVMe drives I wouldn't worry about performance.

[C2Dan88]

There will be no difference in performance where steam is installed, or games for that matter on 2 ssds

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It does not matter where you put Steam; it never requires any installation.
I would avoid putting Game Clients or Games on the OS Drive, period.
Setup your OS Drive so that should the OS get bricked or that drive dies, you don't really lose anything.

Use the 512GB SSD for OS + Apps; but not for Game Clients or Games.