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mikexz

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Hi Everyone

I have a question that is something i cant figure out. I am going to have an ssd (intel 730) 240gb and a hard drive (WD Black 2tb). I want to record my gameplays so I know I will be saving them to the 2nd hard drive, but what I want to know if its better to have the actual recording program saved to the C drive or D drive (WD 2tb) ? Will the movies being saved to the D drive have the benefits of the ssd ? Or is it the same as if I were to save the actual recording program and movies to the D drive? Does this make sense
 
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Mighty_Miro_WD
Hi,
I think you wouldn't see much difference in speed, because you can only write as fast as you can send the HD stream. Since both HDD & SSD are fast enough to handle this stream, neither one will have an advantage. But the SSD performance will drop in line with free space it had and the recording will eat up the lifetime of it.
So, I personally would make two partitions on the HDD (size them however you wish). The first I would use to record to and second one to store. :)
Hope this helps.
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Cats869

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You're better off saving your gameplay to your HDD.

Now unless you're reocrding your gameplay uncompressed and you want to save at very very high bit rates, then choose the SSD. Saving to the HDD should be fine and you will at least won't write to your SSD as often meaning you are conserving its life though it shouldn't make too much of a difference if you do or do not unless you do a lot of recording each day.

If you save it to your D Drive (HDD), it won't have the benefits if you were to save to your SSD anyway. What recording program are you using anyway?
 
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Hi,
I think you wouldn't see much difference in speed, because you can only write as fast as you can send the HD stream. Since both HDD & SSD are fast enough to handle this stream, neither one will have an advantage. But the SSD performance will drop in line with free space it had and the recording will eat up the lifetime of it.
So, I personally would make two partitions on the HDD (size them however you wish). The first I would use to record to and second one to store. :)
Hope this helps.
 
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