(Solved) - Steam for Mac - Download/Install games to alternative drive?

[maosmurf]

Hi!

My system is on a 120Gb SSD, so I moved my ~to another drive (internal, good old SATA). Thus my Steam files reside on the bigger (yet slower!) drive.

I still have plenty of space on my SSD, so I thought of moving my steam files onto it. Are Steam games really faster when started from a SSD? Or can I leave it on the old slow drive?

 

[Huntn]

Hi!

My system is on a 120Gb SSD, so I moved my ~to another drive (internal, good old SATA). Thus my Steam files reside on the bigger (yet slower!) drive.

I still have plenty of space on my SSD, so I thought of moving my steam files onto it. Are Steam games really faster when started from a SSD? Or can I leave it on the old slow drive?

I assume you art talking Steam Game Content? The question I'd wonder is how often does Steam access files during the playing of a game? Some of that my depend on the particular game, but my guess is that for most games the speed of the hd has little effect once the game is loaded into memory and you are playing it.

 

[exe163]

Sorry to revive an old thread.

I was trying to do the same thing just now and it didn't work.

~ exe163$ ln -s /Volumes/Storage/SteamApps /Users/exe163/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/SteamApps

When I launch Steam, it creates a new SteamApps folder in the original location. I am running on a intel SSD as main and "Storage" SATA drive in the opticalbay area.

 

[Dum]

Is there any way to do this without symlinks? Symlinks don't solve the problem at all for me.

The isssue is that my entire Application Support for each computer is symlinked to my Dropbox, so all my steam games try to fill Dropbox up. So even if I symlink the games to somewhere else, Dropbox will follow that symlink and still watch the steam games.

 

[selfstro]

You can exclude the symlink by using the Selective Sync feature of Dropbox.