Adding drive

Champ · Mar 31, 2014

I have one ssd now and want to add another. Can I add a second and have them running together as one without starting from scratch?

A Cheese Danish · Apr 25, 2014

Without starting over, you'd have 2 individual drives and that's just fine. If you want to use them together, aka RAID, you will need to start from scratch.

Disparia · May 20, 2014

Keeping them separate has the benefit of being able to pick up any drive in the future, which at pace we're going, will be larger, faster and cheaper than the one you get today. If that original drive is getting full, can re-target a couple folders to the new drive. For example, my Downloads and Pictures are folders on different drives because my large-at-the-time 128GB SSD is no longer that large

Hood · May 20, 2014

If you have large games on your boot drive, just uninstall them and reinstall them on a folder on the 2nd SSD. Keeping the boot drive small makes it much quicker imaging the drive (and re-imaging). My C drive image is under 20 GB, and since I keep the backup image on the 2nd SSD, I can make an image of the C drive or re-image it in about 2 minutes. Very handy for quick recovery from viruses and other annoyances. Also, keeping that Sammy Pro 256 small will let it perform consistently at it's (amazing) top speed. The 2nd SSD you can load up, since it won't matter, read times will be the same. Maybe just get an 840 Evo drive for games and such, top performance isn't necessary in this scenario, and they're much cheaper and just as reliable. RAID 0 would be faster, but potentially a lot more trouble implementing and maintaining. I'm waiting for SATA Express and M.2 drives to arrive, to increase speeds (eventually) from 6 GB/s to 10 GB/s, and to give me an excuse to upgrade to Z97. I'll probably wait for Broadwell though, unless Devil's Canyon is really amazing...

System Name	Champ's 1440P Rig
Processor	Intel i7-4770K @ 4.6 GHz
Motherboard	AsRock Z97 Extreme6
Cooling	Corsair H60
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600 Mhz 4x4 Blue Ram
Video Card(s)	Nvidia 1080 FE
Storage	Samsung 840 Evo 256 GB/RAID 0 Western Digital Blue 1 TB HDDs
Display(s)	Acer XG270HU
Case	Antec P100
Power Supply	Corsair CX850M
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	TT eSports Poseidon
Software	Windows 10

System Name	HTPC\|\|Lenovo IBM ThinkPad
Processor	AMD Phenom II x4 965 stock 3.4GHz\|\|Intel C2D T9300 @ 2.5GHz
Motherboard	Zotac 890GX-ITX WiFi\|\|Lenovo 8918CTO
Cooling	Stock 3x 120's\|\|Stock stuff
Memory	8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 6-6-6-15\|\|3GB DDR2
Video Card(s)	Asus 3870x2\|\|nVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Storage	1TB Seagate Barracuda, 1x 2TB WD EARX \|\|Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM
Display(s)	Samsung T260HD\|\|
Case	SilverStone Grandia GD05\|\|
Audio Device(s)	on-board\|\|on-board
Power Supply	Cooler Master 450W\|\|6-cell
Software	Windows 7 Pro x64\|\|Windows 7 Pro x64/Linux Mint x64

Processor	Intel i5-6600
Motherboard	ASRock H170M-ITX
Cooling	Cooler Master Geminii S524
Memory	G.Skill DDR4-2133 16GB (8GB x 2)
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte R9-380X 4GB
Storage	Samsung 950 EVO 250GB (mSATA)
Display(s)	LG 29UM69G-B 2560x1080 IPS
Case	Lian Li PC-Q25
Audio Device(s)	Realtek ALC892
Power Supply	Seasonic SS-460FL2
Mouse	Logitech G700s
Keyboard	Logitech G110
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	DEVIL'S ABYSS
Processor	i7-4790K@4.6 GHz
Motherboard	Asus Z97-Deluxe
Cooling	Corsair H110 (2 x 140mm)(3 x 140mm case fans)
Memory	16GB Adata XPG V2 2400MHz
Video Card(s)	EVGA 780 Ti Classified
Storage	Intel 750 Series 400GB (AIC), Plextor M6e 256GB (M.2), 13 TB storage
Display(s)	Crossover 27QW (27"@ 2560x1440)
Case	Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow
Audio Device(s)	Realtek ALC1150
Power Supply	Cooler Master V1000
Mouse	Ttsports Talon Blu
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 version 1803
Benchmark Scores	Passmark CPU score = 13080

Adding drive

Champ

A Cheese Danish

Disparia

Hood