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mbbc902 Jan 25, 2015 @ 12:41pm

Using my 120GB SSD or Regular 1TB HHD

I am running a windows 7 64 bit OS on my regular Hard 1TB hard drive. I just purchased a 120GB SSD bc I want to speed things up. Here are my questions:

1. Should I switch my windows 7 over to my SSD and use my other drives for my games, or should I use my 120GB SSD drives for my games and leave the OS running windows 7 on my 1B hard drive? (not a SSD)

Im just trying to figure out how to speed my game loading times up, but im guessing my SSD is too small. Thats all i could afford though bc they are exp. I have many games and dont think 120GB drive will be able to hold them, plus I buy games al the time.

Thank you,

Mick

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Blaagh Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:05pm

Yeah it be better to install win7 to the ssd but if you don't want to go through that you can right click on the SSD drive and enable Ready Boost, that will use up to 32 GB for caching and speed up things quite a bit.

schnitzeljaeger Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:05pm

Put Windows on the SSD and make a second Steam installation folder for the I/O intensive games on it too. Put the main Steam folder on the 1TB.

zombie cat Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:06pm

Originally posted by mbbc902:
I am running a windows 7 64 bit OS on my regular Hard 1TB hard drive. I just purchased a 120GB SSD bc I want to speed things up. Here are my questions:

1. Should I switch my windows 7 over to my SSD and use my other drives for my games, or should I use my 120GB SSD drives for my games and leave the OS running windows 7 on my 1B hard drive? (not a SSD)

Im just trying to figure out how to speed my game loading times up, but im guessing my SSD is too small. Thats all i could afford though bc they are exp. I have many games and dont think 120GB drive will be able to hold them, plus I buy games al the time.

Thank you,

Mick

I would shift over wndows 7, or even do a clean install as that works better than cloning since windows 7 will enable trim and all the other extra features of an ssd and will disable fragmentation.

mbbc902 Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:21pm

Originally posted by schnitzeljaeger:
Put Windows on the SSD and make a second Steam installation folder for the I/O intensive games on it too. Put the main Steam folder on the 1TB.

So far what i am understanding is to just reinstall windows on my SSD drive. the rest of what you said sorta confused me:)

Originally posted by User:
Yeah it be better to install win7 to the ssd but if you don't want to go through that you can right click on the SSD drive and enable Ready Boost, that will use up to 32 GB for caching and speed up things quite a bit.

This sounds a little easier so I dont have to reinstall windows. Are you saying after I plug in my SSD, right click it and it will give my an option to ready boost?

Last edited by rotNdude; Jan 25, 2015 @ 5:41pm

Hatman Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:35pm

Originally posted by mbbc902:
Originally posted by User:
Yeah it be better to install win7 to the ssd but if you don't want to go through that you can right click on the SSD drive and enable Ready Boost, that will use up to 32 GB for caching and speed up things quite a bit.

This sounds a little easier so I dont have to reinstall windows. Are you saying after I plug in my SSD, right click it and it will give my an option to ready boost?

Please don't.
It is complete nonsense..

Do you have a seperate partition (drive letter) for your current windows or is everything on one big drive?

If not, you're gonna have to reinstall windows on the SSD.
And given your level of knowledge you need someone there to help you.

Last edited by Hatman; Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:37pm

chiefputsilao✖️ping Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:36pm

readyboost

In computing, ReadyBoost is a disk caching software component of Windows Vista and later Microsoft operating systems. It allows any compatible mass storage device to be used as a hard-drive memory cache for the purpose of increasing random read access speed to the hard drive.
ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

Makesito Jan 25, 2015 @ 1:52pm

Originally posted by chiefputsi:
readyboost
In computing, ReadyBoost is a disk caching software component of Windows Vista and later Microsoft operating systems. It allows any compatible mass storage device to be used as a hard-drive memory cache for the purpose of increasing random read access speed to the hard drive.
ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

If you want to waste your SSD, that's the way to go.

SSD have a limit of written data, and enabling it would waste it quite fast.

chiefputsilao✖️ping Jan 25, 2015 @ 2:46pm

Originally posted by ShortyDevil of Etherian <3:
Originally posted by chiefputsi:
readyboost

If you want to waste your SSD, that's the way to go.

SSD have a limit of written data, and enabling it would waste it quite fast.

did i encourage the OP to use the SSD as readyboost or did i provide the OP info what readyboost is according to wikipedia?

mbbc902 Jan 25, 2015 @ 3:16pm

Originally posted by Hatman:
Originally posted by mbbc902:

This sounds a little easier so I dont have to reinstall windows. Are you saying after I plug in my SSD, right click it and it will give my an option to ready boost?
Please don't.
It is complete nonsense..

Do you have a seperate partition (drive letter) for your current windows or is everything on one big drive?

If not, you're gonna have to reinstall windows on the SSD.
And given your level of knowledge you need someone there to help you.

Yes I have a seperate partition on for my OS.

Originally posted by EvoSteven↻ | ≪ϟᵢₒ–₀₁₁≫:
Just install Windows on your SSD. It will speed up so many things.
Essentially you'll have a faster OS and I'm guessing that's better than just "some" faster loading times in games. You could always install the really slow games with a lot of loading time on your SSD in a separate folder (when you install a game on steam, it lets you select which drive to use).

Be wary that you'll run out of space rather quickly if you put all your programs on the SSD as well. Only install a handful of games on the SSD along with your OS to not run out of space. I'd make a couple of partitions on 1TB HDD, splitting it in parts of 250 and 750 or something, 250gb for programs and data and 750gb for games, depends on how many games you have and/or intend to play.

I think I'm going to download my slower games with lots of loading time on my SSD drive.

Last edited by rotNdude; Jan 25, 2015 @ 5:42pm

Hatman Jan 25, 2015 @ 3:41pm

Originally posted by mbbc902:
Originally posted by Hatman:
Please don't.
It is complete nonsense..

Do you have a seperate partition (drive letter) for your current windows or is everything on one big drive?

If not, you're gonna have to reinstall windows on the SSD.
And given your level of knowledge you need someone there to help you.

Yes I have a seperate partition on for my OS.

If you have a seperate partition for your current windows, and it is same or smaller size than the SSD, the easiest way to do it is with clonezilla. It will clone your current windows to the new drive.

Last edited by Hatman; Jan 25, 2015 @ 3:42pm

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mbbc902 Jan 25, 2015 @ 4:17pm

Oh so your saying clone my windows over to my SSD drive if its the same size or smaller?

It wouldnt be more beneficial / easier to delete my slower loading games and re-download them on my new SSD?

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Bad 💀 Motha Jan 25, 2015 @ 5:35pm

The system overall will just run better if u clean install OS to SSD.
Then put Steam on C:\Steam
But put your games on HDD via Steam Library folder creation

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mbbc902 Jan 25, 2015 @ 6:33pm

my system over all mis fine. im just looking to speed up load times on games. nothing more, nothing less. thank you for the reply..maybe im just readfing into these replies too much and making it harder than it needs to be.

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rotNdude Jan 25, 2015 @ 6:46pm

Originally posted by mbbc902:
my system over all mis fine. im just looking to speed up load times on games. nothing more, nothing less. thank you for the reply..maybe im just readfing into these replies too much and making it harder than it needs to be.

If all you want to do is speed up game loading times, then put the games on the SSD. I'm not sure why this is so confusing.

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