- May 29, 2018
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I would love to set my game on the beginning of my HDD not on the end. Because further the data is more time it take.
How to set up my game on the begining of my HDD
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captaincharisma
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not sure what you mean but the data on a HDD will get spread out all all over it over time and the way to get it back in order is to defrag the HDD with windows disk defrag tool.
Solandri
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Hard drives know the outer tracks (the "front" of a partition) are faster, and will try to put data there first. If your game is towards the inner tracks, you will need to find files which are filling up the outer tracks, move them and the game to another drive, then copy the game back first. The HDD should then try to place it in the outer tracks vacated by your other files.
That said, the speed difference is not that big - roughly 1.5x-2x best-case. It's mostly sequential reads of large files which are sped up from being on the outermost tracks, whereas the read time for most games is taken up by small files. A SSD will provide anywhere from about 5x to 300x times the speed increase (with the 300x being for small files). So it would be a much better use of your time to save up money for a SSD than trying to rearrange files on your HDD.
That said, the speed difference is not that big - roughly 1.5x-2x best-case. It's mostly sequential reads of large files which are sped up from being on the outermost tracks, whereas the read time for most games is taken up by small files. A SSD will provide anywhere from about 5x to 300x times the speed increase (with the 300x being for small files). So it would be a much better use of your time to save up money for a SSD than trying to rearrange files on your HDD.
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Make a couple of partitions on this drive.
In Disk Management, the one at the left is on the outermost portion of the drive.
And generally faster, due to greater speed past the read heads for a particular RPM.
Install the game to whatever drive letter you give to the leftmost partition.
You won't notice any difference, but you can do it if you wish.
- May 29, 2018
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Thank you all of you for clarification guys. Maybe HDD is now more improve in technology. Because my dad was an IT technician and said that game on the outer (most far from the inner of the disk) will give me more loading time and less fps sometimes because of the need to read the graphics, environment ect. on the disc.
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