Hey guys. Some of you are familiar with my new build.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1428975/well-i-took-the-plunge-and-ordered-gear-for-my-new-htpc
So far, I have little to complain about. Thing runs games maxed out at very playable framerates. The 3tb harddrive holds every game I own on it with room to spare. My OCZ Vertex4 SSD is awesome but I am now finding myself hitting the limits of its capacity. 128gigs only goes so far. I'd like to increase the size to something like 256-512gigs. Probably 256 as the prices are more reasonable to me.
What I'd like to do is clone the drive to a larger capacity so I can simply swap the drive in and not have to do anything. The though occurred to me though: how do I do it? I have well over a terabyte of games on my 3tb HDD but almost all of them have been 'moved' using Steam Mover. I would assume that if I were to 'clone' the SSD it would think that all that content is actually on the SSD when it isn't. This would be a HUGE problem for me. Having to re-download all those games is a huge waste of time and a lot of trouble, even if it doesn't sound like a big deal. I also figure that if I were to do a clean Win7 install, which doesn't sound all that bad, would be a pretty big pain in the ass because all those games have junction points on the SSD with the OS.
Is adding a second 128gig and going with RAID0 going to work? To me, that would require blanking the original 128 too.
Ugh.
What do I do?
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1428975/well-i-took-the-plunge-and-ordered-gear-for-my-new-htpc
So far, I have little to complain about. Thing runs games maxed out at very playable framerates. The 3tb harddrive holds every game I own on it with room to spare. My OCZ Vertex4 SSD is awesome but I am now finding myself hitting the limits of its capacity. 128gigs only goes so far. I'd like to increase the size to something like 256-512gigs. Probably 256 as the prices are more reasonable to me.
What I'd like to do is clone the drive to a larger capacity so I can simply swap the drive in and not have to do anything. The though occurred to me though: how do I do it? I have well over a terabyte of games on my 3tb HDD but almost all of them have been 'moved' using Steam Mover. I would assume that if I were to 'clone' the SSD it would think that all that content is actually on the SSD when it isn't. This would be a HUGE problem for me. Having to re-download all those games is a huge waste of time and a lot of trouble, even if it doesn't sound like a big deal. I also figure that if I were to do a clean Win7 install, which doesn't sound all that bad, would be a pretty big pain in the ass because all those games have junction points on the SSD with the OS.
Is adding a second 128gig and going with RAID0 going to work? To me, that would require blanking the original 128 too.
Ugh.
What do I do?
My 128GB drive is running a 100GB partition so that I can never leave too little free space. A 250GB drive should run a 200GB partition and 400GB partition on a 500GB drive.
