Using both HDD and SDD at once in same computer for gaming !

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Hi there I have a simple question and I want to learn about some facts before I buy a ssd product.

Because that I have a limited amount of budget the answer of this question is really important for me so that I will go and make the shopping or wait and try to find more money.

Question.

On my pc there are two HDD drives C and D.

C is 1 TB it has windows and other stuff in it.

D is 500 GB it has only steam and my games in it.

I also have a good psu,8 gb memory and decent graphics card.

I plan to buy a 500 GB ssd and replace my gaming storage with a really faster one.

BUT !

Because that its not going to be the primary storage (C is still an HDD) I dont know if I can use the fast reading and writing abilities of the SSD.

So my question is in this situation (windows on hdd and games on ssd) can I use all abilities of the ssd or the exsistence of the operating system on a mechanical storage still cause slow loadind times in games etc ?

?s games work by copying its tempory files from one disk to another (copying to temp on main drive where windows located) or are those files are directly copied on Ram and used by that way ?

Also is this SSD is good in terms of reading and wrting times ?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1449678117&sr=1-2&keywords=ssd

Thanks.


 
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What I recommend, as this is what i'm currently doing. I would definitely use the SSD to host your windows on as it will make booting into windows and general everyday use feel lightning quick. I would keep all the steam games that you currently play a lot on the SSD and the ones you dont play often on the HDD. Writing between the two will be very fast and you can just copy paste games back and forth between the two once you notice you start playing a game a lot more often.

But to answer your question, and read or write done to the SSD will be faster, for example making copies of files, extracting .zips and launching applications sitting on the SSD. If windows is sitting on the HDD the only performance increase you will notice will...
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You would get the best use of the SSD by making that your OS drive. The core OS system processes would be much improved, and having the games on the SSD as a secondary drive really wouldn't have a big affect on gaming performance.

To make the best use of the hardware the primary drive should be the SSD, no question about it.
 
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Oke thanks for your quick answer but why is game files go trough HDD before reaching the Ram. If its like that even in my current siuation I am losing loading times beucase my games are all on the other drive.
 
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What I recommend, as this is what i'm currently doing. I would definitely use the SSD to host your windows on as it will make booting into windows and general everyday use feel lightning quick. I would keep all the steam games that you currently play a lot on the SSD and the ones you dont play often on the HDD. Writing between the two will be very fast and you can just copy paste games back and forth between the two once you notice you start playing a game a lot more often.

But to answer your question, and read or write done to the SSD will be faster, for example making copies of files, extracting .zips and launching applications sitting on the SSD. If windows is sitting on the HDD the only performance increase you will notice will be when you open applications that reside on the SSD.

When you execute an application it is loaded from the drive to RAM. When you load a new level, the files from that level are loaded from the drive to the RAM. If you dont have enough RAM the excess is kept in a Pagefile (basically uses your drive as a slower form of RAM) I would also recommend setting your page-file to reside on your SSD. You can look up guides on how to do that.
 
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"If windows is sitting on the HDD the only performance increase you will notice will be when you open applications that reside on the SSD."

So this means that regardles on my situation and unless my ram is full the game loading times will be still fast right because those games are on the ssd ?

I am confused two diffrent solutions to one answer.
 
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