Mod extraction in download folder

[AlreadyFree]

I have skyrim and the vortex mod staging folder on a solid state drive. My mod download folder is on a separate hard disk drive. When installing mods with Fomod installers, vortex unzips the full mod to the mod staging folder temporarily until it's told exactly which files will be kept. Is there a way to make vortex unzip the mod in the download folder and then only copy the necessary files to the staging folder? I'm concerned that writing a gig of data to my ssd only to end up keeping 30mb is unnecessarily shortening the life of the ssd.

[Pickysaurus]

The read-writes won't make any significant impact on the SSD lifespan. Just as they don't wear out mechanical drives.

 

If Vortex did install it from your slower drive it would make everything take longer, so I'd say just enjoy the speedier install and don't obsess of disk writes. :)

[Guest deleted34304850]

I'm concerned that writing a gig of data to my ssd only to end up keeping 30mb is unnecessarily shortening the life of the ssd.

do you know how much wear and tear an ssd can take before its life ends?

[AlreadyFree]

Each cell on a ssd can only be written to a finite number of times before it can't be written to anymore. The number of times is in the thousands but why waste it on temporary data?

[Guest deleted34304850]

do you know the average lifespan of an ssd? not some shitty chinese knock off, a decent branded ssd.

if you're that worried - here's what you do - take your ssd out - replace it with some 10 year old hdd. put the ssd in a box, seal the box, put the sealed box in a lead-lined casket - dig a hole fill the hole with concrete - put the box with the ssd in the concrete. bingo - it will never wear out. job done.

[showler]

Basically, intentionally slowing down the process is going to annoy more people than using up your finite supply of writes a little bit. And it probably wouldn't be considered worthwhile to make an option for one way or the other.

[AlreadyFree]

It would be an optional setting right next to where you chose for your staging folder to be. I don't think having more options ever annoyed anyone.

[showler]

More options tends to annoy the devs. More things to go wrong.

[rmm200]

And then there are us edge-case folks, who have no HDDs.

I got tired of disks failing every three years, so all my storage now is SDDs. One 500GB © and four 1TB work drives.

All of my temporary storage is on SDDs - and I really don't worry about it.

[Guest deleted34304850]

It would be an optional setting right next to where you chose for your staging folder to be. I don't think having more options ever annoyed anyone.

the presence of an ssd obviously annoys you.

you need to learn how ssd's work, and how resilient they are. i've not had a hdd in a decade, the system im running on is still using the same ssd i installed 7 years ago, which is pretty good considering its in use 24/7.

some things are worth worrying about. this isn't one of them.