Having WoW installed on different drive to Bnet

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Hello,

I am hoping someone can give me a bit of advice on what is the best way to move WoW to a different hard drive. On the laptop I play on it has a very small SSD. The only things I have on the SSD are the computer OS, Bnet and WoW. I have a really limited amount of free space on the drive now and fear a large patch will overwhelm the available space.

I have looked on the Tech support articles and can see that it mentions having Bnet on a different drive from your OS can cause problems so the soultion would seem to be keeping Bnet on the SSD and moving WoW to another drive. I have plenty of space on other drives so not a problem but wanted to know what would be best, putting WoW on the D: drive (internal but not SSD) or whether purchasing an external SSD and connecting through USB 3.0 would be better.

Many thanks in advance

Confused of Azeroth.

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You can indeed install games on other drives without issue, keeping the Blizzard App itself on your OS drive is done to prevent problems with OS permissions. The App manages the game installs, so permissions are all fine even if you install the game on another drive.

One thing I will note is that mechanical hard drives don’t have the same kind of performance as SSDs, so you will likely run into longer loading times, or in-game objects taking a little longer to show up.

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Thanks Galvacon. Looks like I will be getting an external SSD then.