SSD Installation

[KCmetro]

Okay, soooo, I have an M2 SSD and a SATA SSD.

 

The M2 manual just shows it being plugged in, inside the computer.

 

The SATA drive's manual, however, shows:

* insert disc (cd/dvd) in computer

* hook drive up to adapter and adapter into usb port on computer

* copy contents onto drive

* ...then, it finally has the same steps as the M2 (the simple plug-it-in inside the case stuff)

 

Disc and USB stuff, really? What's up with that? (Edit - I don't even have the ssd-usb adapter.)

 

Wouldn't it work to just bypass that and go directly into the computer, like with the M2?

 

I'm supposed to change BIOS to UEFI mode, right? Any other changes necessary?

 

M2 SSD = windows 10 pro

SATA SSD = linux

both bootable

[Electronics Wizardy]

you dont need the disk or any drivers.

 

[ARikozuM]

I would start with just the M.2 until you load into Windows.

[Oshino Shinobu]

You don't need to do those steps, it can just be plugged into the PC. U/EFI Supersedes BIOS, so yeah, use it. 

[KCmetro]

The plan is hook everything up. Install windows on m2, when that's done, install inux on sata ssd. . . setup raid1 on 2x3tb hdd.

[Ctown0812]

1 minute ago, KCmetro said:

The plan is hook everything up. Install windows on m2, when that's done, install inux on sata ssd. . . setup raid1 on 2x3tb hdd.

Fresh installs on both drives? if so, just plug everything and go.  The SATA ssd manual was just refering to cloning the old drive onto the new drive.  Just make sure you have any important data saved elsewhere or otherwise backed up.

[KCmetro]

3 minutes ago, Ctown0812 said:

Fresh installs on both drives? if so, just plug everything and go.  The SATA ssd manual was just refering to cloning the old drive onto the new drive.  Just make sure you have any important data saved elsewhere or otherwise backed up.

Yep.  Cloning, okay, that makes sense. No data to save, so no backups needed. Brand new everything.

 

Is there anything I should know about the OS installation process and prepping the drives for them?

 

1. hook it all up

2. set up the SSDs & HDDs <--(steps?)

3. install win10pro

4. install linux

 

I'm still deciding what filesystems to use on all of them. There will be shares on both SSDs, and both systems will use the HDDs.

[Ctown0812]

13 minutes ago, KCmetro said:

Yep.  Cloning, okay, that makes sense. No data to save, so no backups needed. Brand new everything.

 

Is there anything I should know about the OS installation process and prepping the drives for them?

 

1. hook it all up

2. set up the SSDs & HDDs <--(steps?)

3. install win10pro

4. install linux

 

I'm still deciding what filesystems to use on all of them. There will be shares on both SSDs, and both systems will use the HDDs.

For the windows install, I"m pretty sure it will format the drive for you once you select the proper drive you should be able to set your partitions there as well, if you wish( can always do i later in disk management).  I imagine Linux is the same or similar, although I don't know as I have only used ubuntu once.   As for file systems, Windows 10 uses NTFS by default, and i'm not sure if Linux can use that system or if they have a file system they can both use.  guess it depends on the distro

[KCmetro]

1 minute ago, Ctown0812 said:

For the windows install, I"m pretty sure it will format the drive for you once you select the proper drive.  I imagine Linux is the same, although I don't know as I have only used ubuntu once.   As for file systems, Windows 10 uses NTFS by default, and i'm not sure if Linux can use that system or if they have a file system they can both use.  guess it depends on the distro

Prior to installing the systems, any steps for disk setup? boot settings, partitions, etc.?

For filesystems, I'll use NTFS on Windows... maybe EXT4 on Linux (and swap (not sure how much).

Might go with a shared partition on each OS drive.

Not sure yet on the HDDs (for storage, accessible by both systems). Maybe NFS. Don't want to use NTFS on the HDDs, even though both Windows & Linux can use it. Want to use another one that both can use.