Quick Question about some HDD Choices

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Andrew_118

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I am asking which would be a better deal. Getting a 3TB Blue WD HDD 5400RPM for files and all that stuff and later on get a 1TB Black 7200RPM for things that i need faster times for. OR get a 2TB Black HDD 7200RPM just by itself. Im asking which will be a better value and worth getting. I will be downloading lots of games on steam. Video editing and photo editing. Thanks
 
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Solandri
If you're video editing, you definitely want a SSD + HDD.

What are your game playing habits like? Do you tend to play a different game every day? Or do you fixate on one game until you've played it out, then move on to the next game?

If you fixate on one game at a time, you can install Steam on the SSD, but move the old games you're not playing anymore to the HDD via directory junctions. Dig through the Steam folder and find a folder called steamapps. That contains the actual games, each in its own separate folder (minus some shared files which are stored in the Steam folder). For unused games, just copy them to your HDD, delete it from the SSD, and recreate it on the SSD using mklink /j...
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If you're video editing, you definitely want a SSD + HDD.

What are your game playing habits like? Do you tend to play a different game every day? Or do you fixate on one game until you've played it out, then move on to the next game?

If you fixate on one game at a time, you can install Steam on the SSD, but move the old games you're not playing anymore to the HDD via directory junctions. Dig through the Steam folder and find a folder called steamapps. That contains the actual games, each in its own separate folder (minus some shared files which are stored in the Steam folder). For unused games, just copy them to your HDD, delete it from the SSD, and recreate it on the SSD using mklink /j.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html

When you do that, if you try to play that game again, Steam thinks it's still on the SSD so it plays normally. But it's actually stored on the HDD. That allows you to use a SSD for Steam even though your games library may take more space than the size of the SSD. (A cleaner solution would be if Steam would just let you store individual games in multiple locations and move them around. But I'm not getting any younger waiting for them to implement that.)
 
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