![]() This is a big benefit which is often skipped over. You future-proof your PC by preventing you from having to re-download and re-install your games after an OS crash.Your OS doesn’t need to read/write the drive that also has your games – resulting in better performance overall (for both your games, and your operating system).You free up storage space on your main storage drive – no more hundreds of gigabytes of games lying around your C drive.This has a number of advantages – although, granted, there’s some downsides too: Pros We’re aiming to keep all of the storage for your video games on one drive, and your operating system on another. Installing an M.2 NVMe SSD in my Asus motherboard This used to be a second hard drive connected via the SATA cable, but now it can even be an M.2 drive plugged directly into your motherboard: We’re going to start this article off by exploring the pros and cons of storing games on a second, or third, drive. ![]() Pros and Cons of Storing Games on a Second Drive Let’s take a closer look at some of those. There are also some performance enhancements you can get, better future proofing for your computer, and tons of other benefits. People naturally buy and install games on a secondary drive in order to keep the main drive free with plenty of access storage space. This practice really got started when games got big enough to overwhelm storage drives – CoD Black Ops Cold War requires a stunning 250 GB of free space! It’s really easy to load up a single hard drive with too many games and then constantly have to uninstall and reinstall software. ![]() For that matter, storing your games on any second or tertiary storage drive has been a time-honored tradition for people who have hundreds of gigs of games. There are plenty of potential benefits for storing your games on the ‘D’ drive (or any other label you give the second drive – I use ‘M’ and ‘D’ for my other drives). Two file explorers on Windows showing the M drive having games separate to the C drive ![]()
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