Second SSD Drive

[Anomaly1964]

If I want to add an additional SSD drive to play games on my current PC (which has an SSD and HD already), can that be done WITHOUT putting it in RAID or anything...

Anything special I need to do to get the computer to recognize it?

Thanks!

 

[Ken g6]

It should work fine. It's just like adding any other drive. Probably best not to fiddle with any BIOS settings; whatever you set for the first SSD should work for this as well. It'll work faster if you plug it into the second SATA3 port, but SATA2 would work too.

The only reason adding a second SSD comes up rarely is that one large SSD costs less than two smaller ones. So the main reason to get two smaller ones at the same time would be RAID.

P.S. Can we help with selecting a brand, or have you bought it already?

 

[Anomaly1964]

It should work fine. It's just like adding any other drive. Probably best not to fiddle with any BIOS settings; whatever you set for the first SSD should work for this as well. It'll work faster if you plug it into the second SATA3 port, but SATA2 would work too.

The only reason adding a second SSD comes up rarely is that one large SSD costs less than two smaller ones. So the main reason to get two smaller ones at the same time would be RAID.

P.S. Can we help with selecting a brand, or have you bought it already?

Well CompUsa has these on sale today..

http://www.compusa.com/applications/...&sku=O261-6380

 

[Ken g6]

Well, you get what you pay for. With these OCZ drives, make sure you have a backup of whatever you put on there!

The cheapest decent alternative I can see is a $95 Crucial M4 from Micro Center. (You can order it online.)

 

[zero koopa]

What SSD drive would you recommend over this OCZ?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Samsung 830 and Crucial M4 are good choices.

 

[Anomaly1964]

For the money, seems like the "risk" is worth it, especially as just a gaming drive...

I have OCZ now and have not had a problem...

 

[mfenn]

I agree that an OCZ is fine for just hosting Steam installs. I don't know how far I would trust it as a system drive though.

Anyway, all you need to do is plug the drive in like any other drive. Then go to Computer Management -> Disk Management and format it. It'll then be just another drive letter.

 

[techs]

I agree with those who urge caution with OCZ ssd's.
They don't have a good reliablity history.
The OCZ has only fair performance.

That said, 59.00 is a great price. If that price enables you to buy a 120gb ssd and you can't go higher then get it.

If you can go higher the Crucial M4 is very good, I have a 120gb one myself.

And the Samsungs are reportedly very good and I will be using one for my new build in about a month.

 

[dagamer34]

Well, you get what you pay for. With these OCZ drives, make sure you have a backup of whatever you put on there!

The cheapest decent alternative I can see is a $95 Crucial M4 from Micro Center. (You can order it online.)

I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but is there any hard drive which you would have your data backed up somewhere else?

The problem of a drive failure should be the inconvenience of getting it replaced, not data loss. If you are worried about the latter, you have bigger problems.