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damagedg00ds

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Hello I was looking to purchase a second SSD drive and was wondering if it was worth it to extend the current SSD drive I have as I would buy one that is identical as to what I have or should I just use it as a stand alone drive for my games. The current drive I have is a toshiba q 256 gb and I have a mixed array of drives totaling 3 tb that has all of my files and holds most of my games. So I was wondering if it would be better to get an identical SSD to extend my current one or add it as a standalone drive or should I get a hybrid drive for running games as the drives I currently have are old and since it they are extended they run at the slowest drive speed so some games take forever to load.

Thanks for any response.
 
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what kind of budget do you have? probably be best to buy a larger capacity drive just for your games, but then your 256 GB probably isn't being filled as it is, so extending it to a raid 0 would give you the most capacity per dollar.
 
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For some reason the drive is almost full and not sure as to what is feeling up the space. I am going to have to do some research on what is causing it. I am wanting to upgrade the older drives I have so that they are reading at a faster speed then the 5400 rpm speed and was thinking of possibly getting a hybrid instead of another SSD to use for the files.
 
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hybrid generally will only offer the SSD speed to operating system tasks. you might find better performance in games, definitely compared to an older 5400 drive, but a dedicated SSD for games would ultimately be the best choice in terms of performance. to be efficient though, a hybrid would give you a better range of improvement, but also render your current drives to be useless. since you already have an SSD for your OS, the hybrid wouldn't offer any benefit there; and typically the data on your hard drive(s) wouldn't be as time sensitive, and wouldn't see improvement either.
 
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Ok thanks for that I will give it a check and see since I have not tweeted anything since I reinstalled the OS and left everything default.
 
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So it would be better gaming wise to get a second SSD to install the games on and just use the other drives I have for the other files I store on it. Since I can delete and install as needed getting a second 256 SSD drive just for game would be best.
 
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Found out some games installed on c drive and not the other ones that ate up the space and changed out the page file to run from different drive in machine to see how that works thanks.
 
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