Installing an additional SSD as a third drive?

sparda1 · Jul 17, 2016

Hi all. I just bought a second SSD and was wondering how I should go about installing it. I currently have a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB as my boot drive with a couple of games on it and a 1 TB HDD for my other games and media. I just bought a second SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 250GB) since my other is almost out of space. I would like to keep my 120GB SSD solely as a boot drive, have the 250GB SSD for games and the HDD for documents and media.

Is there anything special I need to do when installing the second SSD? Like specific raid setup? I've read others mentioning Trim in other posts in the past, but I'm not sure what that is.

Any advice is much appreciated, thanks =)

USAFRet · Jul 17, 2016

You need do nothing special.
No RAID or any other foolishness.

Just plug it in. It will be just another drive letter.
You 'might' have to Initialize and Format, but that about it.

Supahos · Jul 17, 2016

I would personally clone the 140gb drive to the new drive since it's faster and then wipe the 840 and use it as a backup

USAFRet · Jul 17, 2016

This is the current drives in my main PC. The top 4 are SSD's, the bottom is a HDD, only for backup purposes

RAZER Gamer · Jul 17, 2016

Like USAFRet has already said there's no need for RAID and all you need to do is install it like you've done will all the other drives and then format it correctly and you're good to go!

sparda1 · Jul 17, 2016

Thanks for the help =)

Greg Gregorich · Jul 17, 2016

so you can do RAID with different capacity SSD's,mhm.

USAFRet · Jul 17, 2016

Greg Gregorich :

No, not really.
RAID 0 - striped. 2x the size of the smallest, the speed of the slowest.
RAID 1 - mirrored. 1x the size of the smallest, the speed of the slowest.

And then of course...SSD + RAID 0 is pretty pointless to begin with.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

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