I am planning a new build for next year. I want to separate HDDs and SSDs per gaming software platform; os drive; misc storage drives; and a blu ray drive.
I saw an AD for a new MSI kaby lake mobo and saw that it capped at 6 sata ports. This wouldn't support my build... I realize there are other mobos out there but looking for advice about those; and perhaps if using external drives through usb or some other fast port would be viable.
I believe steam has that trick where you save the app folder and then transfer it to the actual steam folder and then resync it and it will install what you have vs re-downloading it all. Do the other platforms have such tricks?
My optimum set-up goal would be to have the HDDs for storage and then have an SSD for the frequently played games (or multiplayer games) to keep load times to a minimum.
Again, I would prefer to have at least separate SSDs per platform.
So am I out of luck for having all internal setup? or would it be more practical without much speed loss to go external (at least for long-term storage/backup of game files)?
Apologies for the long post but thanks for your time and any advice you can give. Just trying to nail down a build ahead of time to make the transition a bit more seamless.
I saw an AD for a new MSI kaby lake mobo and saw that it capped at 6 sata ports. This wouldn't support my build... I realize there are other mobos out there but looking for advice about those; and perhaps if using external drives through usb or some other fast port would be viable.
I believe steam has that trick where you save the app folder and then transfer it to the actual steam folder and then resync it and it will install what you have vs re-downloading it all. Do the other platforms have such tricks?
My optimum set-up goal would be to have the HDDs for storage and then have an SSD for the frequently played games (or multiplayer games) to keep load times to a minimum.
Again, I would prefer to have at least separate SSDs per platform.
So am I out of luck for having all internal setup? or would it be more practical without much speed loss to go external (at least for long-term storage/backup of game files)?
Apologies for the long post but thanks for your time and any advice you can give. Just trying to nail down a build ahead of time to make the transition a bit more seamless.
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