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Adding an nvme

Remeca

Remeca

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I'm pretty new to nvme SSDs, so I'm not entirely sure the best way to go about this. I currently have a game storage nvme in slot 1, and am booting from a sata3 ssd. I want to add an nvme boot drive, should I move the storage to slot 2 or 3 and boot from 1? Or add a PCIe card and boot from that or move the storage there? I have 3 SATA devices connected and don't want them disabled or anything running slower than it should. This is what my manual says about them:
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If Slot 1 is empty you are fine. You can add the boot drive. Clone the OS and make then have a nice SSD to add Games to. It should literally take about 15 minutes to download Windows. Software can help like Arconis and Miray if you want to do it directly from Windows.
 
kapone32 said:
If Slot 1 is empty you are fine. You can add the boot drive. Clone the OS and make then have a nice SSD to add Games to. It should literally take about 15 minutes to download Windows. Software can help like Arconis and Miray if you want to do it directly from Windows.
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Slot 1 is currently a 2tb game drive. I'm going to add a 500gb boot drive. I won't have an issue with the transfer of the OS, I did it before going from HDD to sata3 ssd.
 
You can keep the game NVME drive in slot 1, and install the boot drive in one of the bottom slots. The speed of the SATA drives will not change, but depending on where you install the boot drive one or more SATA ports will be disabled.

If you install it in the left slot then the bottom right port (A) will be disabled, which leave you with 5 SATA ports to use. If you install it in the right slot then both ports on the side (B) will be disabled, leaving you with only the 4 bottom SATA ports to use.

Either way you'll be able to use all 3 SATA drives.
 
Installed it in slot C, since I have nothing plugged into the 2 sata ports that slot disables. Works fine, thanks for the help.
 
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