How does one use multiple SSD's, or HDD's?

[meritmaster]

I want to get a few more SSD's, along with a giant sized HDD, but is this easily installed? Is it plug and play, or do i have to fiddle with bios settings?

[Kyuubixchidori]

I want to get a few more SSD's, along with a giant sized HDD, but is this easily done? Is it plug and play, or do i have to fiddle with bios settings?

plug and play, it just shows up as another hard drive in windows

[XTankSlayerX]

Usually its pretty easy.

 

I have 4 drives in my system and I've had no problems.

[theloveablemoose]

Plug and play.

[Brawhammer]

Plug it straight into sata data and sata power and off you trot.

 

Pretty easy. Windows will detect it. You may need to format it in drive management but should be ez pz.

[WinNut]

You just shut down your PC, install it, and then format it in Disk Management. I have a classic SSD+HDD setup in my system.

[meritmaster]

Usually its pretty easy.

 

I have 4 drives in my system and I've had no problems.

 

 

plug and play, it just shows up as another hard drive in windows

I'm fairly ignorant about storage solutions, so sorry if it was a dumb question, as for some reason i was under the assumption that i needed a  raid setup to do so, but i was mistaken; i don't even know where i got that

[WinNut]

I'm fairly ignorant about storage solutions, so sorry if it was a dumb question, as for some reason i heard that i needed raid setup to do so, but i was mistaken .

RAID is a completely different thing.

[BurgerBum]

its plug an play, however im pretty sure you need to do some setting stuff and fiddling with stuff to make it so steam always puts stuff on one drive and what not.

[meritmaster]

RAID is a completely different thing.

I figured that, and thought so, but for some reason heard otherwise; it felt wrong, so that's why i asked .

[Kyuubixchidori]

its plug an play, however im pretty sure you need to do some setting stuff and fiddling with stuff to make it so steam always puts stuff on one drive and what not.

to do that, Its just picking a new directory in steam. I have 3 set up, One on my hard drive, ssd, and on my Nas cause lolz

[Speedbird]

I want to get a few more SSD's, along with a giant sized HDD, but is this easily installed? Is it plug and play, or do i have to fiddle with bios settings?

Basically plug & play, however you have to open Disk Management and set up each drive. That's pretty easy though, just right-click on each one and create a simple volume.