Question HDD problem in Games

[Mista Krank]

Hello, I have a Toshiba DT01aca100 7200 rpm HDD and I have windows installed on it. I didn't know the difference between an SSD and an HDD when I got a pc. I have an External SSD and I be having these random fps drops. My Cpu and my GPU is perfectly ok. I have task manager open on my other monitor when I play games. I see that my HDD is spiking rapidly. My SSD (All my games are on there) is still at 0 while my hdd is spiking. Also the game that I am playing is using the HDD instead of the SSD in task manager for some reason. Can someone help me out with this because I am just completely lost. Will getting an SSD and putting installing windows on it Fix the problem?

 

[LeiHeJun]

@MisterBumBee
SSD is way faster than hdd, so always have your operating system installed and running on it.

 

[Mista Krank]

@MisterBumBee
SSD is way faster than hdd, so always have your operating system installed and running on it.

I know that now. Is the fps drops caused by the HDD being my boot and Windows drive.

 

[Mista Krank]

@MisterBumBee
SSD is way faster than hdd, so always have your operating system installed and running on it.

Also I don't know how to put windows on an SSD.

 

[USAFRet]

Also I don't know how to put windows on an SSD.

Exactly the same way as an HDD.

 

[USAFRet]

Will getting an SSD and putting installing windows on it Fix the problem?

You need to have the games on the SSD as well.
The internal SSD....not the external USB thing.

 

[Mista Krank]

Exactly the same way as an HDD.

I have a pretty good prebuilt and this is my first pc. Thats why I said I don't know how to do it.

 

[LeiHeJun]

@MisterBumBee
go to task manager, performance tab, at the bottom there's Open Resource Monitor.

Then there's CPU, Disk, Network. Under disk, see what makes your hdd busy. play around with write/read. see what's putting burden on your hdd.

 

[Mista Krank]

@MisterBumBee
go to task manager, performance tab, at the bottom there's Open Resource Monitor.

Then there's CPU, Disk, Network. Under disk, see what makes your hdd busy. play around with write/read. see what's putting burden on your hdd.

Its the System process and The Registry. Also I am playing Mortal Kombat 11 and the game is using the HDD when its installed on my SSD