SSD location

DiseasedBunny · January 15, 2021, 08:43:52 AM

This is going to be such a noob-ey question, but.....

New SSD is coming tomorrow, As my existing 1tb is nearly full, how do i make my pc use the new drive as simply an extension of the existing one, ie: so I am not having to point Steam, EGL etc to the new drive when I install? or will I have to do that anyway? (Before SSDs, in the past id just buy bigger hard drives and transfer things over so never been something ive bothered with previously)

Sneakytiger · January 15, 2021, 09:12:03 AM

Is your old drive a ssd as well?

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Chaosphere · January 15, 2021, 09:18:21 AM

I wouldn't bother.
It is very easy to add 2 Steam Library install locations. Steam then just asks which one you want to install to when you are DLing a new game.
Even easier with Epic and so on, you just make a new folder.
Simples.

DiseasedBunny · January 15, 2021, 09:30:26 AM

Quote from: Chaosphere;444428I wouldn't bother.
It is very easy to add 2 Steam Library install locations. Steam then just asks which one you want to install to when you are DLing a new game.
Even easier with Epic and so on, you just make a new folder.
Simples.

OK, makes life easy then

DiseasedBunny · January 15, 2021, 09:30:57 AM

Quote from: Sneakytiger;444427Is your old drive a ssd as well?

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Yes, 1TB sandisk

Sneakytiger · January 15, 2021, 09:41:10 AM

As chaos said,I my self have 2 locations for steam files and just select either drive when installing games.

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albert · January 15, 2021, 10:09:26 AM

I back all the above advice.

Do install the new drive software to check for firmware updates so you have the latest before starting to use it. It isn't normally a problem to update a drive with ata on it but back in the day that was an issue with old firmware. New firmware will give best lifespan and performance.

Add it as a new basic volume and format as NTFS at maximum size, steam will do the rest the first time you add a new game a choose the new drive number.

The only reason you would want to clone the old drive to the new is if there was some technical issue or performance advantage to having the new one as your OS but I find having SSDs from several generations, my original 500GB SSB is still fine as C and the other I add as needed to give me capacity.

BrotherTobious · January 15, 2021, 10:14:09 AM

Yup works sweetly I found blizzard a little more involved to move but works fine.