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BluJay614
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Planning out my first computer build and I have someone telling me I should make sure the SSD and HDD I'm wanting to use are "compatible....so they don't die in a year". How much of an issue is this really? I'm going to be using the SSD as a boot drive, and HDD as my main storage.

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Any SATA hard drives and SSD's will be "compatible" but if you are unsure about other compatibility issues, use pcpartpicker. They have a very good compatibility check.

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SATA drives these days are all compatible with SATA devices, that is unless they are of ridiculous sizes (Linus, I'm looking at you with those 10 terabyte drives). 

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6 minutes ago, BluJay614 said:

the SSD and HDD I'm wanting to use are "compatible....so they don't die in a year"

First time I ever heard an SSD needs to be compatible with a hard drive. Probably because it doesn't make sense.

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buy a trusted brand and nothing something you find for half the normal price on ebay and will be fine, as said above, if it is a SATA device, SSD, HHD, opitcal what ever, it will all work just fine!

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