Amazed to know games should be installed in D drive

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So I have 4 hdd one being 2000 model 250 gb barracuda Seagate black drive which holds the windows 10 and mostly all the games but as I was running out of memory on that drive i figured why not install on d but to my surprise every single person on steam has a ssd only for os and a black drive for programs and games

All this time I was so stupid thinking if I install on d I will have performance issues but the truth is performance is much enhanced when your game is on another drive..is it true
 
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Wrong.
SSD for OS and applications. Games if they fit.
Other games can go on other drives.

Trying to keep the SSD to be "OS only" is a waste of an SSD.
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No.

Performance is RARELY affected depending on where it's installed.

Performance may vary a tiny bit if a game is installed on an SSD vs. mechanical HDD, but that's another discussion that is not relevant here.
 
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Wrong.
SSD for OS and applications. Games if they fit.
Other games can go on other drives.

Trying to keep the SSD to be "OS only" is a waste of an SSD.
 
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But even it means that you can install at any drive without any performance issues and one thing I have noticed is the very fact that my hdd usage has gone down thanks God before when I used to install at c and keep open the task manager and when I used to quit game after hours of play in used to see that hdd usage was going between 70% but omg now I did the very same thing with installing on d drive and played for 2 hours straight and when I saw on task manager d drive usage 10% and c drive usage 5%.....so definitely installing games on other drives rather then c is the best choice as I saw it with my own eyes and all the steam users do that.....hopefully this ideology of only installing all the games and programs only on c will hopefully fade away as it degrades and consumes the hdd like crazy
 
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