Where are steam saved games stored?

C:\Program Files

Should I install games on HDD or SSD?

Games that are installed on your SSD will load quicker than they will if they were installed on your HDD. And, so, there is an advantage to installing your games on your SSD instead of on your HDD. So, as long as you have enough storage space available, it definitely makes sense to install your games on an SSD.

Should I install OS on SSD or HDD?

The file access is faster on ssd’s, so files you want to be accessed faster, goes on ssd’s. So when you want to load things quickly, the best place is a SSD. That means the OS, applications and working files. The HDD is best for storage where speed isn’t a requirement.

Is it bad to have your SSD full?

Don’t Fill Them to Capacity You should leave some free space on your solid-state drive or its write performance will slow down dramatically. When an SSD has a lot of free space, it has a lot of empty blocks. When you go to write a file, it writes that file’s data into the empty blocks.

Why is my SSD slower than my HDD?

Another reason the SSD drive is slow is that the bootup sequence is incorrectly configured as a hard drive on top priority means it will take a lot longer for it to fetch and loads the operating system. Restart your computer and boot into BIOS. (First priority should be given to SSD).

Should SSD be defragmented?

With a solid state drive however, it is recommended that you should not defragment the drive as it can cause unnecessary wear and tear which will reduce its life span. SSDs are able to read blocks of data that are spread out over the drive just as fast as they can read those blocks that are adjacent to one another.

Does SSD produce less heat?

SSDs reduce heat dissipation significantly compared to their spinning cousins. Less heat to move away from sensitive electronics means lower cooling requirements and less power consumption, which in turn means reduced costs for data centers.

Do solid state drives heat up?

SSD do heat up because they use more voltage than mechanical hard drives.

Will more RAM stop overheating?

no, it will not help with heat. best thing you can do is use FanControl or SMCFanControl to manually run the fans higher. more noise, but it won’t get quite as hot.

Does more RAM make computer hotter?

Since adding more RAM is only worth doing because the RAM is a bottleneck, adding more RAM to your computer should thus make your CPU run hotter, not cooler. If anything, it will make it imperceptibly warmer, as the memory controller on the CPU is being used more.