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Are SSD Plug & Play?

alteredasphyxia
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I'm a newbie in terms of connecting things inside a computer. Currently, I have an MSI A320M-A Pro VH, powered by a DeepCool DE500V2. I have a 1TB WD Blue HDD and a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD having my OS in it.

A friend of mine is giving me his unused 240GB Kingston also. Since my HDD is about 80% full lol

Can the New Kingston serves as a 3rd storage device and will connecting/setting it up be easy?

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It should work fairly flawlessly. You may have to readjust your boot settings within the BIOS after installing it and starting up the computer. If your friend left the drive as-is, and simply deleted data, the drive will likely just need to be assigned a letter, which you can do within Disk Management. Otherwise, you can format it from there as well.***

 

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32 minutes ago, alteredasphyxia said:

Can the New Kingston serves as a 3rd storage device and will connecting/setting it up be easy?

You are using windows right? 

 

You have to format the SSD unless your friend did that for you. If it's already formatted, then yes, it's plug and play.

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