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    Quick preference question for those with SSDs

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Bartlett, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. Bartlett

    Bartlett The Prophet

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    Should I install games on the SSD or on the 750GB HD?

    Thanks
     
    Bartlett, Jun 30, 2011
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Depends, I have games installed on an SSD, but I also have a seperate SSD for my OS/Apps, I recently broke my RAID 0 setup. So one SSD serves as my game drive, and one SSD as the boot drive for Win 7 and Linux Mint. But I also have a 1TB drive for file storage. So it depends, if you have room I say SSD, as it should decrease your load times, but know that you will not see a FPS increase.
     
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  3. Bartlett

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    True. I have 164GB free out of my 238GB in my SSD. I don't want to go below 25% free because of the problems with garbage so I am able to use 104GB more.

    When installing games onto the 750GB HD, how do I manage the directories? And what if I want to switch? Won't there be registry settings in my drive?

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    Bartlett, Jun 30, 2011
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    Bump bump bump
     
    Bartlett, Jun 30, 2011
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    TraptPatriot Notebook Consultant

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    I would install them on the HDD. I only have a 64GB SSD, but that is because I knew I only wanted it for OS/other programs. All my games are on a 7200rpm HDD. They work great and load up quickly. Not having system files on them and making sure to defragment with Auslogics keeps my loading speeds very fast.
     
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    It depends on the capacity of the SSD. The SSD will drastically reduce load times, but won't matter that much after the loading is done, or for games that doesn't constantly read/write on your hard drive. The 7200 rpms drives are much more cost efficient, and are quite capable as well. I have two SSDs in my system because my stock HDD have failed. If you get a 256GB SSD then yes you can store the regularly played games on it and move it to the HDD when you're not playing them to free up space.
     
    z3mcneil, Jul 1, 2011
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    In my experience (I also have one SSD and one HDD) I use steam for some of my games and runs blacks ops perfectly when installed on the HDD. Although I do run an older Football Manager off the SSD due to the longer save times and to maximise performance.
     
    wacdag, Jul 2, 2011
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    Thanks everyone for all of the responses. Since I have a lot of Steam Games I put those on the HD by installing Steam there. I pretty much only have Crysis 2 and NBA 2k11 on the SSD right now.
     
    Bartlett, Jul 3, 2011
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