Internal Drive not appearing anywhere, trying to combine two drives.

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Any help is greatly apprenticed. I have a SK hynix SH920 mSATA 256GB drive currently installed in my computer and I recently added a Samsung 850 Pro 512GB. They both show up on the device management, but in the disk management only the mSata appears. However I can create a Storage space with the 512 drive, but what I want to do is combine the two to create one singular space or volume that I can save to. Is it possible to create a spanned volume? Or can I do the two drives in a RAID 0 configuration? What would be the best solution?
 
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Hey there, Max!

USAFRet is right and as you can see you will get less storage if you build them into an array! Besides that, you are risking losing all your data with RAID 0 because if one SSD fails on you, you will lose all the data on the RAID 0/spanned volume.
You already have SSDs with amazing write/read speed, RAID-ing them is not going to make that much of a difference to you unless you do heavy video editing with raw files.
I personally would keep the smaller one for OS and use the second one for demanding apps like a heavy software or games.
IMHO, this way you'd still get the performance but you will at least be using the full capacity of the SSDs without risking losing all your data.

Hope this helped.
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Hey there, Max!

USAFRet is right and as you can see you will get less storage if you build them into an array! Besides that, you are risking losing all your data with RAID 0 because if one SSD fails on you, you will lose all the data on the RAID 0/spanned volume.
You already have SSDs with amazing write/read speed, RAID-ing them is not going to make that much of a difference to you unless you do heavy video editing with raw files.
I personally would keep the smaller one for OS and use the second one for demanding apps like a heavy software or games.
IMHO, this way you'd still get the performance but you will at least be using the full capacity of the SSDs without risking losing all your data.

Hope this helped.
SuperSoph_WD
 
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To SuperSoph_WD,

Thanks for the help, how would i go about formatting the disk so i can write directly to the Samsung SSD. The OS is already installed on the smaller drive but i cant seem to access the Samsung SSD. Is it possible to just have the drive as an internal drive that I can find in file explorer so i can copy files right to that drive?

Thanks



 
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Once it's connected, get into Disk Management
You should see that new drive
Right click on it
Select Initialize
Give it a drive letter
 
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