SDD & HDD Recording Setup

[ringmany]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to be recording gaming footage via Shadowplay with the GTX 970. Up until now I've had a 1.5TB HDD which I did everything on. I now own the Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD which has my OS on it and the HDD is a storage device.

The good thing about Shadowplay as opposed to Fraps is Shadowplay only uses around 5GB for 30 minutes of recording in 60FPS at 1080p. Whereas Fraps uses around 50GB for 30 minutes of 40FPS. So it doesn't take up a huge amount of room, but I want to keep the SSD as free and fast as possible.

I've heard about people putting their main games on their SSD and then recording to the HDD. Something to do with recording on one disk then saving onto another is better or faster. I was wondering if this is the best set up? Play and record on the SSD but save the footage onto my HDD?

Thanks.

 

[chesteracorgi]

You have no real advantage by recording on the SSD. The HDD will have enough speed and bandwidth to handle the recording, and you will not have to transfer the files later.

 

[ringmany]

You have no real advantage by recording on the SSD. The HDD will have enough speed and bandwidth to handle the recording, and you will not have to transfer the files later.

I'm still getting used to configuring my new SSD, because at the minute, I've still got a ton of programs, my steam games, recordings, Sony vegas pro, recording software all still on my HDD which I can't run whilst I'm using my SSD as an OS and main boot drive.

 

[chesteracorgi]

You may have to reinstall steam games, etc. because they are set to run from a specific drive & directory (i.e. C:\Steam). Your recordings should not be so limited, but you may need your multimedia player to recatalog them.