Loving my revodrive x2!!! Question about steam apps folder

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Would I see a huge decrease in performance by moving my steam games/apps folder to say, a 10k velociraptor drive instead of on my 240GB revodrive x2?
 
Haha right. What I should have asked was would it cause a problem with the RevoDrive? Would it be inadvisable to do this? This is my first SSD so I am trying to figure out what the best solution is to cure my 400GB Steam directory.
 
that's acutally what i'm doing with my main pc.
i have the os installed in a OCZ vertex 2 and my steam / games installed on a WD vraptor 300GB.
i've also moved my page file to a different hard disk as well.
 
aphasia said:
that's acutally what i'm doing with my main pc.
i have the os installed in a OCZ vertex 2 and my steam / games installed on a WD vraptor 300GB.
i've also moved my page file to a different hard disk as well.
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Dude thank you so much for this post! I just moved my page file and am currently moving my Steam folders. :D:cool:
 
Also save some space by turning off System Restore. Pointing new large software installations on a separate drive can also be beneficial, but 240GB is plenty of space for new installs.

The Steam folder can go anywhere once installed, to an internal or external - I have mine on a RAID5 for instance. You can also move your My Documents, Downloads etc. on a different more protected drive, saving space and adding a layer of protection as the Revodrive is four SSD's RAID0'ed together.

Enjoy.
 
I have Steam itself on my SSD with the SteamApps folder as a junction link to my Velociraptor.
 
About these drives, can they go in a pci-e 16x slot without slowing down your gpu? I only have a single 1x slot that has my sound card in it.
 
No, if you put a 8x card in the secondary 16x slot on a P35/45/67 it will drop the primary slot to 8x just as if you'd put another 16x card in the secondary slot. Now, it's possibly the northbridge is 'smart' enough to only allocate 4x to the Revodrive and 12x to the video card (in which case I don't think you'd see any GPU performance degradation) but I don't know for sure and I'm too lazy to go looking and whitepapers right now.
 
You're better off moving and linking specific games that you don't play as much. Keep your favorite games on your SSD.
 
Riddleofsteel said:
About these drives, can they go in a pci-e 16x slot without slowing down your gpu? I only have a single 1x slot that has my sound card in it.
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Depends on your Motherboard, newer boards are better about allocating the lanes properly.Some boards can handle triple or quad x16 cards.
 
Some ideas. There are other apps that do the same thing.

http://stefanjones.ca/steam/
http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

Open a command window, type:

(This example assumes you installed steam on C:\Program Files\Steam\Common\ and you want to store it on drive D:\)

mklink /j "D:\My Game" "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\Common\My Game" and press enter.

A folder with a little shortcut image over it will appear in the steam location. Its an artificial 'link' to a folder in another location, but the computer treats is as being in the steamapps folder.
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