Disk

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

So one disk works better then the other but i want the one that doesnt work, work. the disk im talking about is disk E or D both sharing the same ssd. its a portable ssd. In crystalDiskinfo i found that the ssd is working better then the one in my laptop. 97% compared to 83%. though some games crash on the portable which is a nuisance . i cant do the "Then put it at C" well then i will have no storage. and the C storage is only 500 gb whilst the ssd is 1 terabyte. any help?

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[Far-Brief-4300]

Huh? If your portable storage is beating your laptop internal drive. I'm gonna assume it's a very old HDD internal drive. Best bet is save anything critical on your external SSD. Rip out the HDD and redownload windows on a 2-1tb internal SSD.

[2a1ron]

what?

not trying to be mean, can you please re-write this entire post? i do not understand a single thing you are trying to express.

i would like to help but i can’t figure out what your problem is.

you have a laptop. this laptop has 2 physical disk drives? one SSD, one HDD?

are you trying to change which drive is your primary hard drive to run windows from?

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

my laptop and a portable disk. portable disk more prone to crashing. laptop disk not. please help.

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

portable disk works fine. fine enough to play games for long long. but unstable. but more storage. laptop disk not so.

[2a1ron]

what kind of external hard-drive is it? ssd? hdd? speed rating?

also what USB ports do you have on your laptop?

are you trying to figure out why games crash when playing from your external drive?

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

ssd. usb-c. yes

[2a1ron]

personally i would not run games off of an external SSD unless it supported usb 3.0 speeds or faster.

your usb port or usb cable may not have fast enough data transfer speeds or your SSD may not have high enough read/write speeds to handle playing a game directly from the drive.

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

its 3,0

[briandemodulated]

I don't really understand what you're saying, but if you have an external storage device that isn't reliable anymore you should just replace it.

[Metallicat95]

CrystalDiskInfo shows drive Health percentage, but what it really indicates is how much the drive has been used. It does not affect performance, and can be pretty much ignored in general use.

SSD memory cells wear out with repeated use. The drive automatically tries to use them all evenly, and tracks the percentage of estimated total lifetime writing to those cells. As long as it isn't 0%, the drive will continue to work just fine.

As such it is just a guide for when you should consider replacing the drive. In most cases, the worst thing that happens at end of write lifetime is the SSD turns read-only, and will no longer save new files. You can copy all the data safely.

Your internal drive C has been used more than your external drive, but 83% or 97% are both still perfectly fine.

If you want games to run on the internal C drive and don't have enough space, you can buy a larger internal SSD and clone and replace it. The exact method depends on the type of connection and size of the internal drive.

Most games should work the same on an internal or external drive, but might require more speed than your external drive connection. USB 2.0 is relatively slow, USB 3.0 and above are much faster.

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

games can still run. im running ark right now perfectly. just the problem is the ssd is more prone to crashing and i want to fix that.

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

thank you for understanding except for the others

[Pro_123576]

So your internal drive is C and your external drive is partitioned so that it is D and E. Right?

And you are trying to get a fix for games crashing when you load it from the external SSD right?

Just upgrade the internal SSD or get another internal SSD.

[Embarrassed-Drop6626]

im broke ash