Storage

[GCUK]

Hi, got my new gaming PC which came with a 500gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 and a 1TB PCS PCle M.2 SSD. Which one should I be saving my games into? I've downloaded a couple through Steam already and they are automatically saving on the 500Gb hard drive. Should I be moving them across for quicker load times etc? Appreciate any help as I'm out of touch with current PC tech.

 

[JUNI0R]

Hi, got my new gaming PC which came with a 500gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 and a 1TB PCS PCle M.2 SSD. Which one should I be saving my games into? I've downloaded a couple through Steam already and they are automatically saving on the 500Gb hard drive. Should I be moving them across for quicker load times etc? Appreciate any help as I'm out of touch with current PC tech.

Heya! From the spec it sounds like they should be downloaded onto the 1TB PCS M.2. You'll want to keep your 500GB SSD to just Windows and applications to keep the system running as fast as possible

 

[GCUK]

Heya! From the spec it sounds like they should be downloaded onto the 1TB PCS M.2. You'll want to keep your 500GB SSD to just Windows and applications to keep the system running as fast as possible

Thought as much. Is there a way of setting Steam to save them in the other drive or will I have to move them all across?

 

[JUNI0R]

Thought as much. Is there a way of setting Steam to save them in the other drive or will I have to move them all across?

When you download, a window will pop up and you can choose which drive they go into, you'll want to put them into the D: drive. There is a away to transfer them across once they're already downloaded but I'm away fom my PC and can't remember exactly how to do it, so I'll leave that up to someone else to explain 😂

 

[SpyderTracks]

You can transfer the current installed games over to the 1Tb drive as below:

How to Move a Steam Game to Another Drive, The Easy Way

You can easily move a game from one hard drive to another without downloading it all over again,

www.howtogeek.com