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eperdos
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Hello. I already have an ssd 500gb 850evo and 2 hdd (1tb and 500gb) but hdd are old and I would rather not use them anymore. 

 

I would buy new mobo (x470 asus prime pro or gigabyte ultra gaming). 

 

Some say game install should be on different partition than OS. 

Also photoshop scratch disk should be on different partition than OS? 

My personal habit is to move all user folder from c partition to another one and to keep all my files on separate partition/drive. 

I would like a big hdd for storage/archive/media streaming to tv. 

 

So, what storage setup would you advise? 

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5 minutes ago, eperdos said:

Hello. I already have an ssd 500gb 850evo and 2 hdd (1tb and 500gb) but hdd are old and I would rather not use them anymore. 

 

I would buy new mobo (x470 asus prime pro or gigabyte ultra gaming). 

 

Some say game install should be on different partition than OS. 

Also photoshop scratch disk should be on different partition than OS? 

My personal habit is to move all user folder from c partition to another one and to keep all my files on separate partition/drive. 

I would like a big hdd for storage/archive/media streaming to tv. 

 

So, what storage setup would you advise? 

the cheapest that you can get in all honesty 

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this is my computer and the E drive is 3 seperate HDD devices merged into one and the G drive is a desktop HDD 6TB, in all honesty cheapest is the way to go

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1 minute ago, WickedStarfish said:

3 seperate HDD devices merged into one

how do you merge hdd...is it a raid setup?

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Just now, akialwayz said:

how do you merge hdd...is it a raid setup?

just through disk management they just add to the top of the previous ammount of storage i believe, as it was a while ago

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2 minutes ago, akialwayz said:

how do you merge hdd...is it a raid setup?

It might be, but I'm pretty sure there's a way you can actually configure it to merge multiple drives.

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Just now, WickedStarfish said:

just through disk management they just add to the top of the previous ammount of storage i believe, as it was a while ago

 

its that easy?...wow i didnt know that...thank you

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Just now, akialwayz said:

its that easy?...wow i didnt know that...thank you

yeah you have to wipe the HDD first and when you set the HDD back up it gives you the option 

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Thing is my hdd are really old (12 years and 8 years) are kind of noisy and my pc is a silent one. So one hdd has to be enough (that's why I said a large hdd, like a 4tb).

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