Guys I currently have my OS and all my steam games on a samsung 240gb SSD and it's nearing capacity. I also have a 500gb HDD that contains my backup and it's nearly at capactiy too. I'm talking my windows backup is taking all but 130gb of 465gb total on the drive.

Would you a) buy this second SSD and Raid0 them together, b) buy a second, larger HDD and move all steam stuff over, c) do both? Do I need to change my backup settings to take up less space? I have it set to have one backup that refreshes weekly.

I know that there are issues with changing an achi boot drive to raid where I would have to reinstall anyway. So if I chose to go the raid route I would have to empty my HDD and move my steam content over anyway to avoid having to reDL all my steam games.

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Posted by jcole4lsu

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Posted on 1/30/13 at 12:41 pm to puffulufogous

steam is on a 2TB 5400 rpm green drive and i have no lag issues, fwiw.
since you already have it on an SSD though, you might notice a slow down. (my steam has never been on an SSD so i have no reference point)

if no one can come up with a compatibility issue with RAID though i think i would go with it since you would be buying a single drive instead of two (or instead of a much larger and more expensive ssd)

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Posted by DoUrden

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Posted on 1/30/13 at 1:02 pm to puffulufogous

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Guys I currently have my OS and all my steam games on a samsung 240gb SSD

Get all of that Steam stuff off of the SSD!!! Get this and thank me later, move what you want to the SSD and move it back when you are not playing it. Games that don't have load screens really don't need the SSD anyway.

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This post was edited on 1/30/13 at 1:05 pm

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