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The proper terminology is Hard Disk Drive(HDD). In order to use your hard drive, you must launch Disk Management and format it to the NTFS format. What exactly are you planning to store on your drive? Downloads? Music? Pictures?

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The proper terminology is Hard Disk Drive(HDD). In order to use your hard drive, you must launch Disk Management and format it to the NTFS format. What exactly are you planning to store on your drive? Downloads? Music? Pictures?

I will be mostly storing video as I am a video editor primarily. 

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The proper terminology is Hard Disk Drive(HDD). In order to use your hard drive, you must launch Disk Management and format it to the NTFS format. What exactly are you planning to store on your drive? Downloads? Music? Pictures?

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I will be mostly storing video as I am a video editor primarily. 

If you use Premiere, then you can change the save location each time you start a project.

 

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If you use Premiere, then you can change the save location each time you start a project.

You would probably want to set the SSD as the scratch disk though

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If you use Premiere, then you can change the save location each time you start a project.

 

The proper terminology is Hard Disk Drive(HDD). In order to use your hard drive, you must launch Disk Management and format it to the NTFS format. What exactly are you planning to store on your drive? Downloads? Music? Pictures?

The HHD is plugged in a recognized by the motherboard but doesn't show up in disk management. 

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