I have a fresh installation of ED on an SSD but the Hard drive is running like crazy. Does anyone know why? Have I installed/done something wrong?
ED installed on SSD but the HDD is running like crazy..
- Thread starter ChasingSerenity
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Depends on your setup.
If you have the HDD as the C: System Drive (where the user profiles are located by default) and the SSD as D: drive, then ED will keep it's logs and jsons in the C: drive, even tho you install the game files on SSD (D: drive)
Journals are stored in this path: "%userprofile%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous"
bindings, gfx options, visited stars cache plus other stull is stored in this path: "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous"
Two SSD's?
what nothpin said
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My SSD is my main C: Drive. I have a HDD but I only use it for backup. hmmm
Not a bad idea. Great test.
I wish. Although not a bad idea with current SSD prices. hmmm
My first thought also. I think I read that all log files are stored on Frontiers servers. I will check back into that again.
Turn off the Windows Indexing service.
Tried no change. Great idea though
rootsrat
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The state of your account is stored on FDEV servers (effectively a saved game).
The actual client log files are stored locally under C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous.
There is also game options folder stored at C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options
If so, then there is no relation between your HDD "running like crazy" and your fresh ED install on SSD (C: drive)
The hdd is running like crazy due to indexing or some disk maintenance jobs (disk check, defrag) or some antivirus scanning or whatever
Not sure of your setup (Installed memory, GFX Card Memory), but could the cache file for some reason be on the HDD instead of the SSD?
Or a failing HDD.