SSD + HHD as Storage - Setup Help

[Gilbert89]

Hoping to get some guidance/reassurance this is setup correctly.

Purchased a system and had OCUK build for me initially on including an SSD I have no decided to add another hard drive for storage.

(Gigabyte Z97-Sli - Motherboard)

When opening up the case I could only see 1 Sata Power cable plugged into the Mobo's 6GB Connection which was then powering my SSD and Optical Drive therefore I have disconnected the optical drive due to not using it and then used that Sata power connection for the new HHD. (Is this connected up correctly?)

Once booting into Windows both the Bios and Device manager recognised the HHD (BUT) My Computer didn't pick it up my thoughts are as this was from Members Market and freshly cleaned it wasn't formatted correctly for my boot of Windows.

Therefore I right clicked My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > Found the HHD > Right click > Format > File System NTFS >>>>

Now I have Disc 0 (SSD) 300 Mb Recovery - 99 MB Recovery - C:237GB NTFS Boot,Pagefile,Crash Dump,Primary

and the new HHD Disc 1 - 931.39GB NTFS Primary Partition

IS there anything I need to setup to allow this SSD Boot Drive and Storage device to work optimally side by side does the new HHD need program files etc to be able to run games stored on it?


Hope this makes sense

 

[RJC]

If you see the drive in my computer and is assigned a drive letter then you can use how want to.

When installing software which you want to use on the drive - during install just change the drive letter to the HD.

 

[Gilbert89]

If you see the drive in my computer and is assigned a drive letter then you can use how want to.

When installing software which you want to use on the drive - during install just change the drive letter to the HD.

Ah, That's cleared it up. So ill have to install the files such as games etc. Great.

Thanks

 

[TheVoice]

You can create a Steam library (from within Steam itself) on the HDD and then choose when installing games whether to install to the SSD or the HDD. You can also change the location of your user folders such as Music, Pictures, Documents etc so they're on the HDD and Windows will usually move the entire contents for you too. That way you're not wasting your SSD by using it for regular storage and can keep it free for stuff that will benefit from the performance e.g. games and programs.

 

[Gilbert89]

You can create a Steam library (from within Steam itself) on the HDD and then choose when installing games whether to install to the SSD or the HDD. You can also change the location of your user folders such as Music, Pictures, Documents etc so they're on the HDD and Windows will usually move the entire contents for you too. That way you're not wasting your SSD by using it for regular storage and can keep it free for stuff that will benefit from the performance e.g. games and programs.

THIS!

Very helpful, Exactly what I will do.

Thanks