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nadineabdoun
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3 years ago
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Hard drive slow for sims 4

Hi!

i have encountered an issue with my hard drive I have a lot of mods maybe like 30,000+ and I have a 2TB WD elements hard drive that I just bought everything  is working well but the loading time to play is ridiculously slow it takes like 2 hours maybe even 3 just to load the sims 4 and the game itself is laggy and takes forever to make a sim do or go somewhere, is there a solution ? I heard about the SSD but I just bought the hard drive so I wanted to know if it’s fixable or not please 🙂 

Also I’m using a MacBook I don’t know if it’s related to the issue or not.

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    3 years ago
    @nadineabdoun

    I’m constantly chopping and changing drives but have been using a Samsung T7 for the last few months and really like it. Very fast and very small and lightweight 🙂

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    nadineabdoun
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    Hey guys !

    i have a technical question concerning my ssd drives I’m using a 2017 MacBook and I I have two different brands of ssd one the XB500 crucial and the Samsung T7 both of them 1TB and I wanted to know if I can combine them into one to have more storage ( 2TB ) and if so how do I do that ? The crucial has a bit less storage now since i have some documents on it ( now it’s around 793GB) but the Samsung T7 has not been used yet. I read that I can do it but it’s undoable afterwards and frankly I didn’t really understand everything in that article so thought I could ask here! 
    thank you 🙂

    Ps: also do you recommend doing that or will it slow down its reading and loading performance ? 

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    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @nadineabdoun

    I don't see how it could be a good thing, or even possible, to do with two different brands, possibly different speeds and connections. You would always need them plugged in and mounted and risk of data corruption, I should imagine, is extremely high. Why do you want to combine them? Can't you simply install and store different files and folders on them? For example, you could have your Photos and Music Libraries stored on one, Origin and games on another.
  • nadineabdoun's avatar
    nadineabdoun
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago

    They say that apparently you increase the storage so that instead of having 1 and 1 you’ll have 2TB on one ssd 

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    2 years ago
    @nadineabdoun

    But it won’t be one SSD, it would be two. You cannot change the amount of storage available on a single SSD. Do you have a link to where you’ve read this?

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