Considering my smallest drive is 1TB (Excluding 2 128GB SSDs, which I'm not using for storing games on) that's the current drive in my PC I've dedicated to having my 'fast(er) loading' items on it, however, all the items I can really come up with for my list of items that need to be loaded faster are games. The thing is, I only really play two games, Counter-Strike: Source and Portal 2, which, combine to be ~ 60GB after the maps/sounds/mods/textures from my favorite servers are downloaded.

 

The obvious failure here is that I'm using a 1TB HDD to store 60GB worth of data, so, including the loss of usable space from a format, that leaves me with ~ 871GB worth of empty space that'll have no 'overflow' value from my other drives what-so-ever, and, calculating the price of a TB at ~ £45 per TB, that's a loss of £39.

 

Basically, what I'm asking is, assuming I make a symbolic link from my \steam\steamapps\ to my share drive, how practical is it to play the above two low-end games (CS:S/Portal 2) VIA a gigabit lan network (But, then again, obviously limited by the HDD's read speed)?

 

tl;dr:- I don't want to lose £39 so how well will CS:S/portal 2 (Valve games, low end graphics) perform storing the data on an unraid server?

Should work fine. Likely a bit slower load times (so you may not be first into a fight in CS)  but try it and find out.

 

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