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PC Gamers: Should I Install Games on HDD or SSD
Concern 1. Does it make any difference if I install games on an SSD or HDD?
Concern 2. If I install games on a solid state drive other than on a hard disk drive, will my fps or load times be faster?
Concern 3. I got a 1TB HDD that stores Windows, programs, and a few Steam games and I plan to purchase a 120GB SSD for all my games. Is it possible to move games from HDD to SSD without reinstalling again?
As you can see, these are some of the typical concerns from PC gamers. To install games on HDD or SSD really bothers a lot, because each type of drive holds merits. For example, a hard disk drive is traditionally large with capacity, and it's relatively cheap. The cost on a solid state drive might be extraordinarily high as the capacity grows, but the design of no moving parts make it perform faster and less noisy.
Still have no choice? Here I would persuade gamers to install games on SSD. In opinion, a solid state drive is well worth the cost for anyone running high-end hardware, as standard HDD storage is one of the slowest components in the loop; for game load times, generally, SSD results in faster load times (the data transfer speed of SSDs is over 400MB/s, which is significantly higher than that of HDDs' 170MB/s)across the board because of the drive's extremely low access time and latency, no hard drive grinding or files fragmentation issues.
Upgrade SSD for Games? How to Move Games from HDD to SSD
As soon as you determined to install games on SSD, hurry up to get one and put your games on it. Wait! I'm not talking a reinstallation of all your games, as we know that it's truly time-consuming to successfully download a game. Use EaseUS Todo Backup, the best disk cloning software ever, and it supports a single partition cloning. Just clone a partition where your games reside on to the newly purchased SSD, so you won't take the trouble to reinstall the games. You can start moving games from HDD to SSD now.
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup and choose "Clone".
Step 2. Choose the source disk you're going to clone. Here, choose the HDD. Click "Next".
Step 3. Choose the destination disk. Here, choose the SSD. To largely improve the SSD performance after cloning, please do one more selection.
In "Advanced options", tick the option for "Optimize for SSD". Click "OK". Then click "Next".
Step 4. Preview a disk layout and click "Proceed". It usually takes a while for the software to clone an HDD to an SSD depending on the size of the source disk.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Why choose EaseUS Todo Backup?
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"The easiest way to protect your data and system files." —techradar
"EaseUS Todo Backup Free is one of the most popular free data backup applications available. This software offers a myriad of features and is extremely user-friendly. It provides a full system backup, meaning you can back up your entire operating system." —TopTenReviews
"EaseUS ToDo Backup Home is a great backup program, well suited to the home and SMB space." —PCWorld
- What is the difference between Clone and Backup? In what cases should I use Clone?
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Clone will copy one disk to another or one partition to another (unallocated space is also supported). Usually, this option is used to upgrade the current disk by creating an identical copy. Backup will generate a .PBD image file containing the selected files or system that can be restored from the .PBD image if needed.
- What is the difference between System Backup and Disk Backup?
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System Backup will auto-select the system boot related partition(s) as the backup source to make sure the system image can be restored properly. Disk/Partition Backup will allow you to manually select a whole disk or speficy a certain partition as the backup source. You will get the same backup result as System Backup if you manually select the system and boot partitions with the Disk/Partition Backup option.
- As a computer newbie, what features should I use to protect my computer?
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You can use System Backup to back up the system and boot partitions, use Disk/Partition backup to back up the data partition and add plans to run an automatic backup. If you use the computer frequently or have software that may cause boot failure of the computer, we would suggest you back up the computer every 1 to 2 days. For other situations, you can backup the computer once a week. In addition, you can schedule File Backup to back up the files which are changed frequently.
- What kind of storage service should I use to save my backup images?
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EaseUS Todo Backup can save backup images to internal disks, external disks, network drives, or free cloud(Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive) and CD/DVD. It is suggested to save the images to the internal/external/network drives to save time as those kinds of disks have a better read-write speed. It is suggested NOT to save the image on the source disk, because once the disk is damaged, all the files on the disk will become unavailable and you will be unable to restore the image.
- As a company network administrator, what features should I use to protect our internal computers?
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It is recommended that you use the SQL Backup feature to back up your company's SQL server and Exchange Backup feature to back up the Exchange server. In addition, you can execute System Backup to back up the system and boot partitions on every computer and set a plan to execute the backup once a day or twice a week to ensure that the computer can be restored timely when it has boot issues. File Backup feature can be used to back up important user data. If there are a large quantity of computers, you can purchase EaseUS Backup Center to manage the backups on the client computers centrally.
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