Saving space on SSD game installs.

I plan to get an SSD sometime in the future. But they are really expensive and don't have much capacity.

Sooo...I had this brainwave to save some space if I were ever to install multiple games on an SSD.

What if I installed a game on an SSD, and then copy all the game files onto another HDD, and when I want to play that game again I simply copy the game file back from the HDD to the SSD. Therefore I get the best of both worlds, fast load times, and copious amounts of storage. The only con would be having to wait 5 min for your games to copy at the beginning.

I think I'm on to something here. But the question is will it work? In theory I think it should. This most certainly would work with old games, but now with nasty DRM, and Steam DRM would something like this still work?.

I plan to get an SSD sometime in the future.What if I installed a game on an SSD, and then copy all the game files onto another HDD, and when I want to play that game again I simply copy the game file back from the HDD to the SSD.

SirSiddy01

It should work but what's the point of faster loading if you have to copy the game every time you play, making the process much longer than simply loading from the HDD?

SSDs are overrated for gaming.GhoX

I play a lot of turn based strategy games like Empire total war, and Galactic Civilizations II.

I thought having the games on an SSD would drammatically reduce the time between turns, since SSD's have fast random access times so the pc can a read an script faster.

Besides it's not that long, Empire total war takes up roughly 12-13 gigs of disk space. And my samsung f3 spinpoint has a average read speed of over 120 mb/sec so if we do the math copying the game from HDD to SSD (indilinx based), would only take roughly 110 seconds or less than 2 minutes. And I would be more than willing to wait to minutes to copy the game if it means shaving even a second loading and time between turns, because when I sit down and play during a weekend I usually go through 500-800 turns in one go.

You get a SSD for like your operating system hard drive, then get a couple of raptors and put them in raid for your game hard drives. Then just have big regular hard drives for data storage and even older less demanding games.