{"id":3538,"date":"2022-06-22T20:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2022-06-22T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:49:41","slug":"how-to-add-a-new-steam-library-on-another-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/22\/how-to-add-a-new-steam-library-on-another-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a New Steam Library on Another Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"3539\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/22\/how-to-add-a-new-steam-library-on-another-drive\/how-to-add-a-new-steam-library-location\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-1024x576.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Steam New Library Location\" class=\"wp-image-3539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-to-Add-a-New-Steam-Library-Location.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How to add a new Steam library on another drive takes you step-by-step through the process of saving your premium solid state drive (SSD) space for what matters and creating a new complimentary Steam library on your hard drive for your gaming needs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding a new Steam Library doesn&#8217;t replace the original, which you can still use for games that you demand the highest performance for but it can easily solve the problem of you running out of space on your main SSD drive by utilising your much cheaper and bountifully-spaced hard disk drive (HDD) for your everyday gaming needs or low-performance requirement games.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add a new Steam library to another drive and start unleashing the full performance of your hardware today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; 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