One SSD for boot and another to Play Games?

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Saint57x

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I have one drive set as a boot drive for windows 7. How can I use my other SSD to be able to play games off of it and not load them onto the boot SSD?
 
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Saint57x

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Just to clarify my boot drive is 120gb SSD and I got another 256gb SSD that i was planing on using to install and play games from. However, when I tried to install Crysis 3 off of Origin (a game I got free w/ my graphics card) it wanted to go onto my boot drive and not the 256gb one.
 
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In that case you need to install Origin on the games SSD i guess. In steam you can add another install location in settings that's what i do.
 
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Saint57x

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So installing Origin, and Steam to the gaming SSD will allow me to play the games w/o problems because I read somewhere that I would have to install the OS onto both drives?
 
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Origin is a special, F-ed up case.

You cannot install origin to a drive other than your C: drive, because it's one of the worst designed things in the software world. It's part of the reason I hate EA; I have a number of games on origin that I haven't touched in a long time because I have an SSD.


That being said, if you can, return the SSD you just bought. It's pointless.
Most games get absolutely zero benefit from being on an SSD. Think about it - if you put CoD on an SSD, what do you get? You load into a map first; big whoop. You still have to wait for everyone else to load before you can start the match. The only games that gain anything from being on an SSD are MMOs (because it gets rid of loading screens, and that's only a convenience) and certain single player games (because it gets rid of loading screens that break immersion.)
 
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Im wondering this too. I just built a new PC yesterday with a 120gb SSD for OS and 500gb HDD for games etc. The trouble is my machine is pretty much silent except for the damn HDD! - ITs driving me nuts. I am thinking of scrapping the idea of HDDs and just forking out the extra for another SSD. At this point I know there is no real benefit performance wise (FPS etc) but the idea of silence is heaven.

As for the OP, I normally have my 2 drives labelled 'C' and 'D'. When I get the prompt at install asking me to confirm install location as C/programfiles/games/blahblahblah; I normally just change the letter at the beginning to a 'D' and thats it done. Easy as pie.
 
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