Why do people say to not install games on SSDs that have the OS installed on it? Does it matter?
who says that
ask those reddit people that say that
nobody says that
>>106983495Don't shit where you eat. Simple principle.
Just use more than one SSD and it almost certainly won't fail before it's time
>>106983495I aspire to one day have my OS on a small ssd or partition. But I'm not sure why.
>>106983495>noooooo don't use your SSDswhy not? why even buy them?
>>106983495I personally do it from convenience. I haven't changed my OS nvme in like 8 years. I upgrade my gaming nvme every 2 to 3 years. OS drive doesnt get many read write cycles and I don't really care if it's the latest 4737264748 mbps speed either.
>>106983495 From what i've heard that's some old as fuck advice that doesn't apply anymore. Same people who say that probably also run ccleaner and uses an anti malware/virus program
>>106983583>I upgrade my gaming nvme every 2 to 3 yearsWhy? Most of my drives are close to 10 years old, including my SSDs, and I've never ran into any issues
>>106983495>>106983671It's old advice but its good advice, isolating your OS makes it a much more comfortable process if you want to change OS or format/replace the drive.
>>106983495people aslo say not to defrag SSDs but I do it anyway for shits and giggles.i like watching the defrag screen move at extremely fast speed
I wasnt going to reply to this thread but everyone got the answer wrong and now I feel obligated.Its for performance reasons. Windows 11 is constantly streaming your data to Microsoft and Mossad. You keep your games on a second drive so that you have full bandwidth available for loading game assets.It is exactly the same concept as multicore CPUs. You dont want your OS and your game running on the same CPU core while other cores sit idle.
>>106983830do you understand the concept of defragmenting disks and why it's completely useless for SSDs? It literally only adds reads to your nvme
>>106983495>>106981970what's the fucking point of these threads.
>>106983912Yes I understand.Do you not understand how much of a serotonin hit I get watching an SSD defrag?
>>106983978No, i really don't but i guess you're you and can enjoy anything you want
>>106984001zoom zoom
I install all my pirated games in root.
>>106983495It used to be an issue back when HDs were a thing. Basically, HDs were slow, and Windows was always doing shady stuff in the background. So having a dedicated HD for games was faster than a GPU upgrade.Nowadays SSDs are plenty fast, to the point where it's not an issue anymore. Maybe you get faster loading screens, but that's all.
>>106983495Its just a good idea, makes so much stuff easier should anything go wrong or you need to reinstall / change your OS. Keeping it all on one drive will kill everything if theres a problem
>>106983495It doesn't really matter.The only reason I like to split applications across drives is because if my game is using 100% of the SSD activity, my OS can still chill on 2% activity. Then my Stable Diffusion drive can also be a separate 100% while loading a model into to the RAM. Then my 4th hard drive can use it's activity for lots of read and writes seeding/downloading 1,000's of torrents.But your typical gaymer doesn't need to worry about workstation stuff.
That sounds like one of those voodoo gamer superstitions that Reddit is absolutely rife with.
>>106983978lol just kick back and watch the OS and firmware lie to each other
I dont think it matters. Maybe it's antiquated advice from when SSD were first coming out.
