Really dumb question

If your computer has room for an additional drive, yes. You may move the games to the new one. It will gain a new letter (c is your main OS drive. It will be D, E, F, etc. heck. Go wild. Make it R). You will just need to update Steam with the new path to the old games, and you will need to tell it that you want the default place to put them and save them and launch them and all of that on the new path as well.
Basically, turn off the computer. Install new drive internally, turn it back on, open disk manager (assuming windows), and you’ll probably need to format the new drive and tell it how much of the space you want to use on it (all of it).



If you have no room for a second drive, you can use an external enclosure permanently or use it temporarily to transfer the current OS to the new drive, expand the space, and then you won’t have to change the drive letters.

Thanks to both of you.

For clarification, I suggested a USB drive to move all the old files he mentioned for storage and make room on his current SSD drive for the game he wants to play.

I’ve intentionally avoided this thread up to this point, as I’ve been torn between answering the question and trying to explain why I don’t know if this is the best idea. I just realized that more core issue is that I’m lacking data, so:

How much space do you currently have allocated to games, and how much space are you looking to expand to?

Bonus points if you can tell us your motherboard model.

I'm not sure on how much space I have allocated to games. I have a ton of photos, music, and videos on the drive as well. It's gotten to the point that I have to uninstall Steam games to make room for a new game. I didn't play them really, so uninstalling was no big deal.

I'm not even sure how much space I would want for games. I only play three or four games really these days.. I would like the ability to have more space if I wanted to install Steam games I have uninstalled to have on the ready if I was in the mood to play..

I could put games like They are Billions back on my pc, and be able to play a quick game.

Figured a 1TB would be plenty, but I know games take up lots of space of course. Figured safe to go with a 2TB SSD. Prices are okay I guess on Newegg.

My mobo: (found my old Newegg order)

MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI Gaming Motherboard AMD AM4 SATA 6Gb/s M.2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 HDMI ATX

NEWEGG

Have a older mechanical drive with backup stuff on it.

Main drive is: (not sure if important to list current storage, but this drive has been good)

SanDisk Ultra 3D 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDH3-1T00-G25


Also, doesn't the full storage slow down the pc? Mine feels slow. It's weird. Sometimes my comp will boot up in seconds, other times it takes longer. No idea what causes stuff like that...

I'm not very computer savvy on performance and software. I can put a computer together, but that's about it..

How price sensitive are you? With that motherboard, I would like to incorporate an m.2 NVME drive if at all possible.

the stick looking SSDs are called NVMe drives. You'd need to make sure your motherboard has a slot for one. I'm going to guess it does not.

SATA SSD drives (normal looking drives) will work great for video games. You should be able to get 1TB for under $50 or 2TB for like $70-80.

With that said, if I wasn’t price sensitive, I would likely buy two m.2 NVME drives, one for games and one for your system in general. But if I were only buying one drive, I would buy a new drive to slot into that top m.2 slot, use that for your system storage, and continue using your current ssd as your gaming drive.

Moving your OS off of an older style ssd to a Gen 4 NVME would feel like night and day when it comes to the way your system “feels” while using it.

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Not only much, much faster but also doesn’t require any wires. The board you linked can take two:

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Yeah, that's my mobo.

So you don't have to install these as match sets or pairs like RAM? Can just buy one and plug and play yeah?

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Yeah, that's my mobo. So you don't have to install these as match sets or pairs like RAM? Can just buy one and plug and play yeah?

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It’s not fundamentally different than plugging in a thumb drive, except it’s your entire storage drive. M.2 NVME are the bee’s fricking knees at this point. No reason, other than cost, to use anything else.