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    Which drive?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by David Tarry, May 10, 2019.

  1. David Tarry

    David Tarry Newbie

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    hi
    New to the gaming and machine arrived yesterday as below, can someone explain to me which drive i save things to? Its was set to save everything to the SSD drive but once i downloaded Fortnight to test it around 30% of the drive was full. Worked great though?

    Should i be saving things to the 1 tb hard drive or the SSD and if its the SSD why do i have hard drive? I understand the SSD is faster but if downloaded is there a difference? Sorry a bit confused here!



    SPECIFICATIONS
    MSI GP73 Leopard 17.3 inch Core i7-8750H 16GB 1TB + 256GB SSD Gaming Laptop
    Manufacturers SKU - 9S7-17C522-6
    Processor
    Intel Core i7 -8750H
    Memory
    16GB
    Hard Disk
    1TB
    Solid State Storage
    256GB
    Screen
    17.3in Full HD
    Graphics
    nVidia Geforce GTX 1070 8GB
    RF Network Standard
    802.11 ac
    Operating System
    Microsoft Windows 10 Home
     
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  2. Porter

    Porter Notebook Virtuoso

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    Everyone will have their own way of doing things and there is no wrong way.

    The SSD makes the whole computer feel snappier in windows, and in everything it does. Everytime it reads a file it will be much quicker. Games load faster and may have less choppiness in open world games.

    Personally, I would suggest installing any competitive games, or big open world ones where you want to minimize any loading screen time on your 256GB SSD. Any older games or non-competitive ones could go on the 1TB hard drive.

    Other uses for that hard drive are movies, music, pictures, and backups of stuff like save files or game directories. The Steam and GOG clients make it really easy to have a 2nd game install folder on a 2nd drive.
     
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  3. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    Personally when I still used HDDs in systems, I would put my OS, programs, games I was currently playing (since Steam lets you move them around easily) and any files I was actively working on in the SSDs and then using the HDD for storage/archive, and for items that didn't really benefit from the higher transfer speeds or where a slower load time wasn't really a problem.
     
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  4. Kevin@GenTechPC

    Kevin@GenTechPC Company Representative

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    It's entirely up to you, but based on what you have on the capacity of SSD at 256GB I wouldn't waste precious space on storing games so I would place it on HDD.
    When you actually upgrade your SSD to 1TB later on then feel free to place applications/games that you want to be able to load up quickly on it to take advantage of its performance. :)
     
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