Steam & SSD
So I have a SSD now, about a decade after some others, but still not a bad time now that the Vertex2 offers great performance at a reasonable price. Vertex3 is out but requires new motherboards for support and is also a lot less inexpensive. : )
I want to utilise the power of the SSD even for games, however there’s not enough room to store everything. From this point of view, I want to start the core Steam app from the SSD, make it download all games to the hard drive, but then move selected games back to the SSD. This is doable by way of running symlinks, which is supported in Vista -> Win7.
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