Dedicated hard drive reduces load time.
If you devote a second hard drive for the installation you will get faster load times.
Hard drives start writing data at the outer edge of the platter. For every rpm more data is read at the start of the drive than is at the center of the drive.
If you install the game as the first thing on the second drive you are well off. Make a partition somewhere further into the drive for mods and other data or even some nonchalant programs and you will be fine.
Remember that your OS is at the start of C drive for the same reason, faster access to data.
If you barely had enough room on C drive to install the game because all other programs ate up the good space it could take forever to load the game.
When I devoted a second drive solely for the game and mods, load time decreased immensly.
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