Question / Help OBS program HDDs and SSDs?

Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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I've viewed a few OBS install and use vids, some of the people say don't save a recording file to an SSD, save to an HDD, (one person then added once saved you can then copy and paste to the SSD) is there validity for this and if so what is the rational?

Is it OK to install to and run the OBS program from an SSD or should it also be installed on an HDD?
 
Harold

Harold

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OBS can install and run fine from an SSD.

The reason for not recording directly to the SSD is because of the reduced write lifecycles you end up with.

The indistinguishable quality profile only needs about 5-8mbyte/sec sustained write speed.
 
Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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I intend to reinstall a Samsung 500gb 750evo, leaving me with 3 HDDs, only the 1tb is sata3, the 320 and 160gb are sata2.
Saving to a sata2 shouldn't effect the quality of the recording yeah? I was thinking I'd use the 320gb for my games, the 160 is almost full then maybe the 160gb for recordings and the 1tb as my C:/ clone.

So, is there a way to save to an HDD but link said folder to the C:/ desktop
 
Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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Hello Suslik V,
I never tried this before, I created a folder on F:/ then right clicked it and sent it to my desktop as a shortcut. When I open it, it says it is on the F:/ HDD. So the file will be saved to F:/ but accessible from the Desktop.
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

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The shortcut itself (the small formatted record type of .lnk file) must be stored somewhere. In your case it stored C: drive, folder Desktop, but it still points to the destination drive (F: , and the folder that you are made link of). If you open the shortcut from desktop by double click or by hit Enter key, you immediately get access to the folder on the F: drive. That's it.
 
Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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Suslik V,
So are you confirming my idea or have you debunked it?
Does the video file reside on the F:/ hdd or the C:/ ssd?
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

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I didn't see any idea here. What the problem is? The path to save recordings in OBS Studio defined by Settings>Output>Recording Path.

Personally, I do not store recordings on the drive C: (system drive).
 
Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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I have been with the WD 1tb sata3 HDD, the WD 160gb drive has all my games on it and its nearly full. Eventually I'll be reinstalling the SSD, when I do I'm thinking of installing all my games to a Seagate 320gb sata2 HDD and either saving the game recordings to it or the WD 160gb sata2 HDD once the games are moved.

Are there any issues with saving the game recordings to sata2 drives instead of sata3?
 
Ghidrah

Ghidrah

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I was going to use the 1tb as my clone drive. Up till I bought the SSD I used the 1tb as C:/ and the 320gb as the clone. I clone about every 3-4 months then disconnect it from the system
 
koala

koala

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It is best practice to install your Windows System drive (C:) onto a SSD. This way your system appears as being really fast. You also install all apps (and games) to C: as long as there is space available. This way your apps start really fast and load their app data really fast.

You will store your personal data not on the SSD C: but on additional disks you add to the system as D:, E:, etc. Usually you will make one drive letter for each hard disk. You have 1 SSD and 2 HD's, so with this schema you will end up with C: (SSD), D: (HD 1), E: (HD 2).

For backup, you make image backups of C: and file level backups of D: and E:. This way, you can restore your system drive from image if C: fails and your system is immediately able to boot again. And if D: or E: fails, you are still able to boot from C:, and you are able to restore the destroyed files using your running system.

For image backup, use the Windows built-in image backup, which can be scheduled, for example weekly. This runs in background, so I never forget about it. It just works. Restoring this is simply booting from the Windows installation media (DVD or USB Stick) and choose system restore.
For file level backup, use File History, which is available since Windows 8.

If you use this concept, it's clear that you will save your OBS videos to D: or E:, depending on how you distribute your application data to these two hard disks. You want to choose your fastest drive for that, because this way your postprocessing work (recoding, editing) is done fastest as well. Don't save these to your system drive, because that way you bloat your image backup with often-changed temporary files.
 
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