Suppose you wanted to double SSD capacity by adding another SSD . . both Samsung

[BonzaiDuck]

First off, my boot SSD is an 840-Pro 500GB running in RAPID mode.

RAPID only allows for one SSD, even if you have two Samsungs.

I think it is possible to format an SSD as another Simple Volume/Basic Disk, omit putting a drive label on it, and linking it to the boot (RAPID mode) SSD through a shortcut in a "Program Files . . " folder, etc.

So one SSD would have an "effective" sequential read throughput of 1,000+ MB/s; the second one would operate at the basic spec ~500+ MB/s.

What problems would I encounter doing it this way? I'm not going to span the drives by running them in RAID mode. And fact is -- I could assign a drive label to the second SSD, use the shortcut approach already mentioned, and still store personal data files on the drive directly (as opposed to using a shortcut of the type described.).

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Mapping an NTFS volume to a folder instead of a drive letter should work fine.

I've never had a problem doing that.

 

[corkyg]

Echo Dave_the_Nerd's comment. A second drive excluded from "Rapid" won't slow you down enough to worry about.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Echo Dave_the_Nerd's comment. A second drive excluded from "Rapid" won't slow you down enough to worry about.

That's what I thought.

I don't think I had ever done this sort of thing extensively, or I just experimented with it. But it's an "established method" I'd seen demonstrated or explained.

Point is -- I could just replace a 500 GB with a 1TB EVO. But if all I want to do is "extend" capacity with a second drive, this approach would seem to make more sense -- for the expense, the performance compromise (if any, really) and other factors.