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Post Date: 2011-03-04
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    Posted: 04 Mar 2011 at 11:04pm
I got another ssd(intel 80gb x-25M) for games. I forgot that one game in particular makes lots of writes and reads to the documents files on the OS drive(128gb corsair). I'm sure it does this often enough that it will lessen the benefit of just reinstalling the main data to the intel.

Any methods to remedy my situation? Should I wipe the corsair, install OS to intel ssd, and make better management of what games to install.
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I'm confused, what is your issue, exactly? One way or another all your game data will be on an SSD, so who cares?
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Well, I'll compare read/write speeds of both before I'll start making decisions. My corsair already seems slower and it's only been a month.

Essentially a nice chunk of data is contained in the documents. It's enough to effect game load (downloaded content) and saves which it I'm trying to reduce in the first place.

Last time I checked it's over 3 mins to load game, and at least 50 secs to save. Times could be longer, I just don't remember.


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Originally posted by Clusta

Well, I'll compare read/write speeds of both before I'll start making decisions. My corsair already seems slower and it's only been a month.

Essentially a nice chunk of data is contained in the documents. It's enough to effect game load (downloaded content) and saves which it I'm trying to reduce in the first place.

Last time I checked it's over 3 mins to load game, and at least 50 secs to save. Times could be longer, I just don't remember.

Ew, what game is this exactly? I've never had any game save more than a handful of config files and save game data in My Documents or User folders. Checking through mine quick, the worst offender I could find was Dragon Age, which keeps all player made mods in a Documents folder, but even that was only 60MB and wouldn't take any SSD more than 2-3 seconds to load. If an SSD is taking 3 minutes to load a game and a minute to save a game, it sounds like something is all kinds of broken, either the game or the SSD, does it happen with all games or just that one?

Anyway, if you want a quick and easy way to rearrange what drive the data is on without having to reinstall, just use Symbolic Links to point your Documents folder to the Intel SSD. Never done it myself so I'm not familiar with the process, but I've read it's not too hard if you just look up a guide.
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Posts: 44 		  Quote Clusta Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 8:43pm
Haha, only 60mb of mods for Dragon Age? You must have not played it enough to get bored.

Sims 3 is just broken like that. Times were 10-15 mins on old rig, which means if an error closed it out, I just wouldn't play the game anymore. Heard of symbolic linking before, but I don't think it work the way I would like it to.

Even as search now, people have used it to move useless junk of ssd drives to save write cycles. I know it works, but I haven't come across anyone who is doing what I'm trying to do yet.

Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
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