What if I had fasten my computer's boot up with a SSD drive

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Debasish_2

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I just want to know ,if you guys are kind enough to help, that if I am having 2 HDD drive(which I currently have) and buy an external SSD drive and use it to boot up the computer. Will there be any chance of improving the pc's perfomance and decreasing the boot up time without removing those 2 previous HDD and without any further configuration.

 
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Exactly, Take one of your HDDs out, replace with SSD, install OS on it and HDD you took out you can connect same way you were going to connect SSD. Thru a USB2/3 to SATA adapter.

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It should work fine.
But you will have to install a fresh copy of the windows operating system on the SSD drive if you buy one.

First of all though check that the motherboard you have supports booting from external devices.
Using the Usb ports of the board, or the board has external Sata connectors.
You can check this in the bios of your motherboard to see if usb devices or external E-sata devices can be booted from.

It`s going to depend on how old your motherboard is in age as to weather the options for external or usb devices exist as a booting option.

If your motherboard is new, less than a year old then you should have no problem booting from a external device connected via Usb or the E-sata interfaces.
 
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CountMike

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It's not practical to use external disk for OS and booting and with Windows, only Enterprise version can be used to make such a thing.
In any case, interface like USB3 would negate any speed gain.
It would be much better to install SSD inside and use one of those HDDs as external.
 
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USB 3.0 is not supported until the OS has booted because Windows needs to be running to load the driver, I think, so the boot would run at USB 2.0 speeds anyway. Better to put the SSD in the computer and move one of the HDDS out. Is this a desktop or laptop?

What version of Windows do you have?
 
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kyzarvs

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Not sure I agree with the eSATA comment - but anyway, I did biff it by misreading. I didn't realise the SSD was external (a mechanical can't really saturate an unshared USB3 port), so was going down the road of "it wouldn't be a bottleneck even if the spec is a little slower" - my bad, apologies.

 
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Debasish_2

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So basically are you guys telling that I should take out the internal HDD, and put a SSD in place of it, Well then where will I be putting my HDD then? Also will the performance of the computer(its a desktop) be affected if I buy a SSD of less storage space?
 
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CountMike

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It does but that's BOOTing only, that doesn't mean you can run Windows apart from Windows to GO like that.

 
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CountMike

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Exactly, Take one of your HDDs out, replace with SSD, install OS on it and HDD you took out you can connect same way you were going to connect SSD. Thru a USB2/3 to SATA adapter.

 
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