squeegee started this discussion 11 years ago#41,208
so a long time ago i was told that you don't want to run program files off of any drive but the c: drive. so like if you have 2 hard drives c: and d: it would be very bad to install games onto d: for some reason. pretty much i have always just used a second hard drive as media storage anyway, but i'd like to add a second drive to my current build and instal some shit onto it.
so my question: is this even a concern? and if not then is there any drawback to installing windows on one small drive and installing everything else to d: or e: ?
and finally is it best for gaming for a game to be installed on the c: drive?
thanks for any info on this, it's actually been a question of mine for years.
Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later[^][v]#547,962
A few years ago when SSDs were way more expensive I did a combination of a small SSD for the OS and programs that I wanted to load very quickly with a hard drive for mass storage. I did store a lot of the big video games on the hard drive. It did leave to some minor problems with easy workarounds. Nothing that should discourage you from doing whatever it is you mean to accomplish. There were some problems that refused to install to the hard drive because there were no directory options during the installation.
One the weirdest glitches: I made the mistake of labeling the hard drive "A" instead of "D" and some games wouldn't install because they assumed drive A was a floppy drive.
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Metæ joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,052
I'm guessing you mean a desktop with both drives installed internally on SATA? Shouldn't be an issue. Installing programs to an external drive on USB can be slow (and annoying if it comes unplugged) but Windows doesn't care what drive you install your nintendoes on.
Triptych !!/xkPL9myM joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,060
many programs come in "portable" versions that you can stick onto a USB/SD card/whatever!
squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,062
@548,052 (Metæ)
yeah, desktop internal sata. i've got right now a 250gb SSD and i'd like to pop in a TB HDD and just install some stuff into it instead of the SSD
but i don't want a performance dip, so if it's not "optimal" or if there is some reason why it's "best" to run programs on C then it'll influence what get's installed onto the D: drive. Sure, all media storage is fine and will help, but i'd like to have a lot of "installable space" and not just storage space, if that makes any sense.
but it sounds like you're saying a game running from the D: drive takes no natural performance hit because it's not the main drive with the OS installation. I've pretty much suspected that was the case now for a long time, and i'm skeptical it really was like that back in the day. it's just not really been an issue until i took a capacity decrease and opted for the speedy SSD
Metæ replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,065
@previous (squeegee)
Maybe back in the Windows 95 days there was. Apart from system files (which have to be on C:) you can install anything on D: and it makes no difference in performance at all.
Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,111
@548,062 (squeegee)
By "dip in performance" I assume you mean problems not related to speed? Almost anything stored on an HDD instead of an SSD will load and perform slightly slower. For things like movies and pictures it doesn't matter because it just means it takes slightly longer to load up. For video games, it depends on how much loading is in the game. Loading screens will take longer and there may be parts of the game that become jittery from trying to load in real time.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 14 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,115
For 5 years the C: drive on my desktop was an external USB HD and my OS was installed to either D: or E: (can't remember). So no, drive letter doesn't mean anything with regards to programs. Most of the time I don't even "install" programs with any sort of installer, I just copy the executables from another drive.
squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 4 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[^][v]#548,168
@548,065 (Metæ)
alright, good to know. And yes, i was told that long ago.
@548,111 (Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4)
yeah, not talking about differences in the hardware, i was just told a long time ago installing games onto the D: drive was a bad idea.
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
cool, good to know.