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If I bought an SSD to use as a boot / games I play often drive then a 5400rpm drive for storage?

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Yes. Why wouldn't it?

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Yes that should work, for just general storage I wouldn't choose a 5400rpm drive, 7200rpm 1TB+ drives are pretty cheap these days 

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Yeah it works and no hassle to do, however you need to remember to change the installation folder, since by default it would go to your C drive which would be your SSD

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Absolutely, it's actually quite a common practice.

Very common, it's what I do. SSD for OS and a few games/programs, a 2nd HDD for documents and some other games/programs, and then 2 HDDs specifically for my media collection.

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If you mean using SSD for OS and HDD for everything else - yes, it will work.

Alright thanks.

 

Yes. Why wouldn't it?

I have no idea.

 

Yeah there shouldn't be any reason for it not to.

Alright thanks.

 

Absolutely, it's actually quite a common practice.

Thanks.

 

Yeah it works and no hassle to do, however you need to remember to change the installation folder, since by default it would go to your C drive which would be your SSD

I only realized

 

Very common, it's what I do. SSD for OS and a few games/programs, a 2nd HDD for documents and some other games/programs, and then 2 HDDs specifically for my media collection.

Alright thanks.

 that was a thing when Linus made a video on it, thanks for the response.

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Oh btw just saw, welcome to the forums :D

Thanks, everyone seemed eager to respond, I thought I had one response and then it turned out I had 7 :D

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Thanks, everyone seemed eager to respond, I thought I had one response and then it turned out I had 7 :D

The community here is so nice, if you ever have a question, you know where to come :D

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