Allow Steam to use 2 hard drives?

[Finzz]

I am putting a new hard drive in my computer because I am low on space. Is there a way to configure Steam to start using the second drive, like, have two steam folders? One folder on each drive? Or would I have to move all of my steam stuff to the second hard drive?

[Prez]

Looked this up, and found some answers for you:

 

 

http://www.overclock.net/pc-games/687287-span-steam-over-2-harddrives.html

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1058466

 

Hope this helps!

[Finzz]

One more question and then I'll give you rep

 

Which of these would be better to keep most of my games on?

 

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144200 40g Raptor

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16822136284 1TB Caviar

 

Just wondering because I found the raptor in my dad's basement and was wondering if it was still decent for gaming.

[Daze]

You're not going to fit a lot of games on a 36GB drive. You'll come back in a few months time looking for a new drive..sounds pointless

[trakaill]

One more question and then I'll give you rep

 

Which of these would be better to keep most of my games on?

 

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144200 40g Raptor

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16822136284 1TB Caviar

 

Just wondering because I found the raptor in my dad's basement and was wondering if it was still decent for gaming.

 

what a silly question..my steam folder is 56GB.....

Ive read the WD CB has similar performance then the raptor anyway..

 

If you wanna go small expensive, SSD is the only way to go and the raptor isnt....

these are used for your OS and a very selective range of applications that the user need to be fast...

You wont see a "worthy" difference running CSS

[duhoh]

a 7200 rpm HDD is fine for games.

 

the only difference you may have to load up times for booting an OS with a raptor. 1TB is an obvious choice.

[Finzz]

You're not going to fit a lot of games on a 36GB drive. You'll come back in a few months time looking for a new drive..sounds pointless

 

Okay you guys are missing the point...

 

I asked because I was only going to put a few games on it to see how good it is, I wasn't gonna try to fit all of my steam folder on it lol.

 

I just wanted to know if it would be better for loading times, than the 1TB is, but trakaill answered my question anyway.

[Wrathek]

what you should do, is take your current hard drive that has everything in it out, after buying the 1TB HDD. Take your dad's raptor, format it and install a fresh copy of windows on it.

 

Install all programs and put all your files on the 1TB HDD, and just let the raptor be there to enable you to boot faster, also make the paging file take up the vast majority of what remains of the raptor. It's what I would suggest with an SSD (minus the paging file), but since you've already got a raptor for free, it'd be slightly comparable to say the least.

 

And after all of that, format your current drive and keep it in the computer as well, for backup and storage purposes.

[Finzz]

That's a good idea, if only I wasn't so lazy lol that's something to do in the future