Hard Drive Problems with gaming compatability

harley1200

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Jan 10, 2016
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Hi all,

(PC Specs http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/desktops/product-detail.html?oid=9242943#!tab=specs)


My brand new gaming PC from HP works perfectly and runs games effortless, however... My C: drive only contains 117GB of storage whereas my D: drive contains 1.81TB (2TB) when I installed games such as: League of legends, Fallout 3, Terraria, Skyrim and Black ops 3 onto my D: drive I ran into some weird delays and problems.

League of legends, Fallout 3, Terraria when installed on the D: drive ran perfectly fine but had sudden imperfections where a 'lag spike' occurred, checked on my task manager and there was a slight spike in the hard drive, Which inturn made me try and move my games onto my C: drive to 'test them out' and came back positive, no in-game lag spikes at random intervals... Problem solved? Sadly not, my C: Drive is tiny and the 2TB would be wasted. However: Skyrim/Black ops 3 (On top notch settings) ran perfectly no lag spikes at all or imperfections (On D: Drive) Strange. My internet speed is perfection as My old PC ran The same games with the same setup without these annoying 'lag spikes'

I am bewildered by this problem, although I know my way around a PC hard drives I have least knowledge off. Here is a picture of my current hard drive situation, Comparing my drives to my old/other PC i noticed they all installed practically everything into their 'C: DRIVE' and left the D: drive practically empty.

My current drives:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/131288i2590B5D0E1B86B04/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1

So far no help from forums and desired to post on here as this website helped me out many
times!

Thank you all to whoever has read this, its very hard to explain
and slightly frustrated as this PC is practically 2 weeks old.

The two harddrive names are:
C: SanDisk SD7SB6S-128G-1006
D: WDC20EZRX-60D8PB0 (2TB)

Cheers,

-Harley
 

Tincan79

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Aug 2, 2015
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I seen your post while researching which type of secondary drive is best for games; to go SSD or HDD because of price per GB and transfer speed.
I assume your problem is the a low quality 2TB harddrive and userbenchmark.com could test that for you.
Let me know if you found your best solution, cheers.