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Hello world of Linus tech tips forum, i have a question; is it possible to boot off of an ssd and then have everthing els on a hard drive? What i think all i will put on it is the system reserved and boot stuff like that and the rest on the hard drive. What im wondering is that if its possible to have just boot on the system in the ssd and then have everything els work from the hard drive?

 

Lastly, how do you do it? I have everything on my hard drive now, should i just put windows 8 on the ssd? I dont know...

 

thanks :)

 

- ethan

yes absolutely 

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Hello world of Linus tech tips forum, i have a question; is it possible to boot off of an ssd and then have everthing els on a hard drive? What i think all i will put on it is the system reserved and boot stuff like that and the rest on the hard drive. What im wondering is that if its possible to have just boot on the system in the ssd and then have everything els work from the hard drive?

 

Lastly, how do you do it? I have everything on my hard drive now, should i just put windows 8 on the ssd? I dont know...

 

thanks :)

 

- ethan

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Hello world of Linus tech tips forum, i have a question; is it possible to boot off of an ssd and then have everthing els on a hard drive? What i think all i will put on it is the system reserved and boot stuff like that and the rest on the hard drive. What im wondering is that if its possible to have just boot on the system in the ssd and then have everything els work from the hard drive?

 

Lastly, how do you do it? I have everything on my hard drive now, should i just put windows 8 on the ssd? I dont know...

 

thanks :)

 

- ethan

yes absolutely 

My Personal PC 'Apex' https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/LiamBetts123/saved/3rTNnQ

Intel Core i9 9900k, ASUS Z390-A, RTX 2080TI, Meshify C, HX 850i, 32GB Gskill Trident Z RGB @ 3200MHZ, 500GB NVME, 500GB SSD & 2 x 4TB Baracudas 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Nice profile picture, that doesn't look familiar at all :P

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Yes, you can do it, and you should do it.

 

I've done it and it's a truly great thing. 10-15 second startup times are incredible, and I've only got a semi crappy SSD in my rig atm. :P

PCPartPicker link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/R6GTGX

Привет товарищ ))))

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well cofcourse linus already had a video on it :D thanks lots!

no problem, seems like ever since we saw this set they should bring it back in the new office

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