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Multiple Storage Drive Help

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  • Hard Drives
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March 20, 2014 1:16:24 PM

I am in the process of building my first rig, and I have been reading up on storage devices. From what I've read, the best set up (opinion) is to have one storage for your OS and a second for data. However, I've read semi-often that installing games on a third storage device is beneficial. Can anyone explain or offer advice on how to best implement this? So far my thinking is to have an SSD for my OS, a second SSD for my games, an a third HDD for all my other data.

Also, as a side question, how does having my game data on its own drive affect moving to a new computer or reinstalling games? Since everything, including Steam and the games themselves I'm assuming, will be on the drive, is it almost plug-and-play on whatever machine?

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March 20, 2014 1:24:28 PM

The Steam client allows multiple locations for games. You can designate as many, on whichever drives you want.
Let the Steam client live on the boot drive with the OS.
When you then install a new game, it will ask 'where'.

My current config:
SSD 1 - OS and ALL applications
SSD 2 - working docs and some games
HDD 1 - Majority of games and other stuff
HDD 2 - music/video, backups, random repository for other stuff
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