Should I save my games on Drive C or drive d?

Some people say that saving games on drive C may slow down the performance of the computer especially when Its almost full . I have 200gb left on drive C and 240gb on drive D. Will it matter?

 

I'd suggest leaving a smaller separate OS partition, say 100GB or 150GB. That would be your C:. It's always safer to keep all data outside the OS partition in case of failures. I thus, always recommend installing softwares and maintaining data on a separate partition, like D:.

 

The failure protection would only help if it was on a completely different drive. If the drive fails all partitions will be gone.

 

So its okay to put games on drive d?

 

Certainly!

I wasn't talking solely of mechanical failure. If a driver crashes terminally, and you can't enter your OS except through Safe Mode, or if you want to format but won't be able to backup the data on C:... There are plenty of case scenarios that would suggest why it's always better and recommended to keep a dedicated OS partition no matter what. For a mechanical HDD failure, it wouldn't really matter anyway. You'd just want to save your hard drive first.. I've faced plenty of such situations, when I was glad my data was safe and needed no additional effort of backing up! Also, after a format, leaving everything on D:, say games for example, would retain your save games, unless ofcourse they're in "My Documents" or elsewhere (and not the game folder).

 

Unfortunately I've noticed many games these days keeping their saves in My Documents. Having recently bought this laptop, I'm glad there's things around like Steam Cloud! Steam does so many things well I almost don't want to buy games any other way.