Where to put Steam

[WhiteLotus]

So I got myself a 128GB M4 the other week, and I'm very happy with it. What I am not happy is the amount of space I have on it (obviously... it's only 128GB). I was thinking of installing Steam on the WD Black I have to make up the space requirements, but then I only really play one or two games at a time.

Is it more practical to have the games on the SSD and then remove them and add new ones, or put them all on the WD Black and have my library of games I never play again.


All ideas welcome.

As a side note, I have all my steam games backed-up on the WD Black already, so it doesn't take long to retrieve them and install them on the the SSD using Steams restore function.

 

[John Doe]

I would avoid putting Steam on the SSD. When I had mine, I did it and not only it became hard to not go out of space, but it also trashed my SSD too much. Steam along with games constantly write/save/log on flash. Just use the SSD for OS/programs, and the Caviar for games, storage and such. Reliability>speed.

 

[Black Panther]

have the games on the SSD and then remove them and add new ones

That's what I do. I rarely play more than 3 games concurrently. After finishing a game I'd remove it, unless I'd want to replay it immediately - which is very rare, I replay a game after a year or so usually, if I do at all.

 

[razaron]

Install steam on the SSD then symbolically link games from a folder on your storage drive. That way you can have some steam games in your SSD and some in your storage drive.

EDIT: To symbolically link folders you write this in CMD, MKLINK /D "Link" "Target", where "target" is the actual location of the folder and "link" is where you want windows to think it is.

 

[pantherx12]

Protip : if you install steam on your HDD it will automatically install everything there anyway so will be linked up as usual so you won't get a library of games you won't play as they'll all show up on your steam games list.


Think I could be missing the point though.

 

[Grings]

Install steam on the SSD then symbolically link games from a folder on your storage drive. That way you can have some steam games in your SSD and some in your storage drive.

EDIT: To symbolically link folders you write this in CMD, MKLINK /D "Link" "Target", where "target" is the actual location of the folder and "link" is where you want windows to think it is.

This seems to be the best solution atm, I still think steam should have the option to have a second 'steamapps/common' folder though

 

[WhiteLotus]

So really it's undecided.

 

[razaron]

So really it's undecided.

Symbolic linking seems to be the best way. It's like a shortcut that windows thinks is the original.

This seems to be the best solution atm, I still think steam should have the option to have a second 'steamapps/common' folder though

It'd be better if they added the ability to install individual games wherever you want. Manually symbolic linking to put games where you want them to be gets annoying after awhile.