Hardware & Technical SSD Upgrade

[Asp Explorer]

Now, if you want more practice... try reformatting and reinstalling again It'll be faster this time around!

I'd get used to Trim and the SSD's internal maintenance cycle before that - you can overwhelm the poor thing

ps: For more advanced stuff, check out "mklink" command.

Buy a gobload of RAM, create a RAMdrive, and enjoy

 

[FoxTwo]

Buy a gobload of RAM, create a RAMdrive, and enjoy

.... and you'd still need mklink to trick Steam into thinking the game is still on the HDD when it's actually in the RAMDrive (with a new drive letter)

 

[Asp Explorer]

.... and you'd still need mklink to trick Steam into thinking the game is still on the HDD when it's actually in the RAMDrive (with a new drive letter)

Not really - just create a Steam folder in the RAMdrive and it's none-the-wiser. A drive letter is a drive letter, in a MS OS at least

 

[FoxTwo]

Not really - just create a Steam folder in the RAMdrive and it's none-the-wiser. A drive letter is a drive letter, in a MS OS at least

Then he'll need to keep re-installing that game into the RAMDrive on every boot

 

[Asp Explorer]

Then he'll need to keep re-installing that game into the RAMDrive on every boot

Urm no - it state saves at shutdown and restart - or you can set it to state save every X minutes.

Of course the downside of that is you have to have fast enough storage to make the load times bearable saving 32Gb or so.

 

[FoxTwo]

Urm no - it state saves at shutdown and restart - or you can set it to state save every X minutes.

Of course the downside of that is you have to have fast enough storage to make the load times bearable saving 32Gb or so.

LOL since it still needs to save to an "offline" storage, may as well leave it on the storage media. I save the time waiting for it to save/load on shutdown/startup.

Just my personal view, ie I won't do it this way.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Indeed - it's a bit silly to have to wait on a RAMdrive as it loads it's image if you will gain no benefit after it.

However - once it's loaded it's completely unbeatable performance-wise. And if loading game levels, or virtual machines, or just running silly network benchmarks are your thing, or having a completely forgettable OS install, - they are great

Not all RAMdrives do this of course, some are battery backed, and even in the old Amiga days they survived reboot, and in mainframeland they actually take precedence over disk TSO's.