Question: Moving Steam to NAS


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So I was going to reformat my computer for Windows 10 and I wanted to backup my Steam folder so I wouldn't have to download (and remember) everything again.  Then I thought of just moving it to my NAS.  Would that cause any issues?  I have no idea how much bandwidth is required when running a game that's installed on a hard drive.

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So I was going to reformat my computer for Windows 10 and I wanted to backup my Steam folder so I wouldn't have to download (and remember) everything again.  Then I thought of just moving it to my NAS.  Would that cause any issues?  I have no idea how much bandwidth is required when running a game that's installed on a hard drive.

 

it's possible, but feasible? i dunno, depends on the game + network speed. you can check the following steam thread about this.

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You'd probably want something that has iSCSI with LAG to get some good speeds (1Gbps x 2+ connections). iSCSI drives show up as built in drives to any program.

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The speed would be sub-optimal, but that probably wouldn't pose many issues. You'd probably have bigger issues with the differences between plain file access and file access over SMB.

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