Adding a SSD..

[n3wfy]

Hey hows everyone doing?

 

So I have a 128gb SSD for my boot drive. I have a 2tb Seagate that I currently have my games on. I just purchased a 480GB SSD and want to run my games on that for better performance.

 

Now on my motherboard I have 2 sata 3 connections currently being used by my 2 existing drives.

 

I want to put my new SSD on one of the sata3 connections.

 

Can I just unplug the HDD from the sata3 and move it to a sata2 and plug the new SSD into the sata3.

 

Move my game files from my HDD To my SSD and that should be fine?

 

FYI my motherboard is a gigabyte p55a-ud3

 

Any help is appreciated.

[wyattzx]

As long as the SATA port you move your HDD to is also the same mode as the one it's in now (AHCI  / IDE) it will be no problem whatsoever.

[n3wfy]

IDE would be the ribbon cable? AHCI would be the small sata cables?

[n3wfy]

And it seems I need to check in the bios

[n3wfy]

This is what  found on google.

 

http://www.diffen.com/difference/AHCI_vs_IDE#Operating_Modes