Games take memory from both my HDD, and SSD.

ajkuras

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I got a computer with an SSD (C Drive) and a Hybrid HDD (D drive). I have noticed that when I install a game through steam onto my HDD, it takes a couple of gigabytes worth of storage from my SSD as well. Is this normal? Is it because of my Hybrid? If it is not normal, how do I stop this from happening? Thanks in advance.
 
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Is Stream installed on the C or D drive? Steam normally installs games to where steam is installed unless you tell it to install elsewhere and if steam is on the C drive and games are on the D drive then yes steam still uses some space on the C Drive for games.
Is Stream installed on the C or D drive? Steam normally installs games to where steam is installed unless you tell it to install elsewhere and if steam is on the C drive and games are on the D drive then yes steam still uses some space on the C Drive for games.
 
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Yeah, when I install games, unless I want them specifically to go to my SSD, I tell them to install to my D drive. I do have steam installed on my C drive though. I'll try to move the client to the D drive and see if it stops. I'm not too worried about it at this point as I still have plenty of memory on my C drive. I was just curious.
 

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I moved steam to the D drive, and it isn't taking random memory from my C drive anymore. Thank you for the help.