HDD + SSD Combo

I am having issues with connecting a HDD up. To get some background stuff out of the way: 1.) The disk has already been initialised previously on the same system and is functioning properly, at least currently and previously I have a 4tb WD Black HDD that I am trying to connect to my computer...

So I just upgraded from an i5-8400 to a Ryzen 5 3600x as my CPU or mobo went bust and i was waiting to swap to AMD anyways, I got an ASUS B450M-A motherboard and all was working fine, I can boot into windows and access the BIOS when I only have my boot m.2 (970 Evo 500GB), however I tried to...

I've aways had a PC that was only on HDD. Now I am going to buy a laptop for university that's gonna have 124GB NVMe SSD with 1TB HDD. Can I like have my university stuff like visual studio, Blender, Photoshop, Engines and Windows, Chrome on my SSD to be fast and the rest on the HDD? I am pretty...

Hi there, I can't seem to find a way to attach my hdd and ssd onto my cooler master k501L case(https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mid-tower/masterbox-k501l/) https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00CY8RTHS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 When I unboxed my case I can't...

STILL NO SOLUTION I recently upgraded my mobo and cpu from ROG b350f & ryzen 5 2600 to Aorus b550 pro & ryzen 7 3700x. I did a clean install of windows on my SSD. My games are on my HDD and i just carried that straight over from last build could this be the problem? Also my cpu temps when...

Recently my SSD with windows died, so I reinstalled on a fresh SSD. I reinstalled steam, but it says none of my games are installed (most of them are installed on the HDD, not the SSD). I then went to the "Add or Remove Programs" feature in windows, selected my HDD, and got prompted "We...

I want to use one hard drive for Windows, one ssd for linux, which I would replug depending on what OS I want to use. Now can I constantly have one hard drive plugged as shared memory? Thank you in advance, LukasUnix

Hello, I ran into a strange issue today. I have two Disks on my laptop. One is an SSD (Windows) and the other is a 2TB HDD. Now what happens is if I try to open anything associated with the 2TB HDD the laptop does not respond and the task manager shows 100% utilization for the HDD. By the way...

Hi everyone. I've been having an issue with not being able to boot from my ssd or hdd but they show up in the SATA Information section in my ASUS bios. I've already tried starting the system with just the ssd, switching SATA ports, and enabling CSM and disabling secure boot. If you have an idea...

Hello. I'm facing a problem in my pc with my HDD. Here is the story. I has on my pc 3 disks. Windows disk Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme. Games disk Samsung 840 evo and a data disk HDD 500gb. Last month the HDD looks like a little slow and reading a folder endlessly some times. I bought a new one 2tb...

i use my system SSD for everything, then i ran outta space and remembered i have a HDD, unfortunately it wont boot when its connected. i tried setting the boot device as the ssd but it still glitches

Hi Friends, I Have An Hp Pavilion 15-n203tx Notebook Pc (Energy Star) Laptop Which I Like To Upgrade And I Couple Of Questions Regarding Ram Memory And Hard Drive Which SSD Is Better(Samsung Or Kingston)For Me And What Capacity Should I Use? Which Company Ram Should I Buy Or Which...

So pretty much I just built a new pc and I only want my windows to be on the ssd. But for some reason everything is being downloaded towards my ssd. Am I missing any steps to this? Can I just copy paste all my program files and program file(x86) to my hard drive and delete the ones on my ssd? My...

Hello, I discovered something on file transfers between storage devices and I wanted to know why this is happening (just for my curiosity) I have an SSD and a Hard Drive, both on Sata 3 standard. The SSD has about 500MB/s transfer speed and the HDD has about 50MB/s. However, when I want to...

Hello, i've build my pc the past year and since a week or 3 i've been experiancing some issues. it started when 1 of my 4 drives wasn't able to configure any raid formation because my pc said it wasn't conected properly (it was and still is) i didn't think much of it and just let it be for the...

Hello. I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3 installed on my HDD. I recently bought an SSD but I'll only have enough space for Windows. I'm planning on installing Windows on the SSD and use the HDD for storage for Windows 10. Is there any way to delete Windows from my HDD and install it again...

Please check these and let me know which one will be better. And can I use 4tb hdd and 256gb ssd with gigabyte ga-b75m-hd3 mobo? I am using 16gb ram. Toshiba 4TB Sata Desktop Hard Disk (RPM- 7200) Seagate Barracuda 4TB SATA 3.5 inch HDD (RPM- 5400) Western Digital (WD40EZRZ) 4TB 3.5″ BLUE...

I have 2 storage drives, a samsung 860 evo SSD and a Seagate 3.5" HDD. Both are 1TB in size, but when looking in my File Explorer, it says I only have 1 TB of storage. Also, I checked properties on the Local Disk, and both of the mentioned drives are listed, but again, I only have 1 TB of...

Hello, I am building a new computer and want to clone my drives over to my new system, and I am looking for some guidance. Currently, I have a 128gb 2.5" SSD with my OS, and a 2TB HDD with games and other applications. The SSD has about 93gb used, and the HDD has about 290gb used. For my...

Hello there. My fiance and I have been building her new PC and got everything plugged in nicely and neatly but we have run into an issue where the SSD and the HDDs will not show up in the BIOS boot devices nor will Windows install detect them. The motherboard in question is the Gigabyte X570 UD...

Hello, I got a Seagate 2 TB Hybrid drive a couple of months back. But since a few days I get this message from Intel Rapid Store Technology, 'intel rapid storage technology your sata available disk removed'. But once I reboot or shutdown and start the system again the drive is shown again in...

I have a laptop which has a 256 gb ssd on it and it has a free msata slot. I was wondering if it is worth it to replace the SSD with an HDD and add an msata ssd? And would it make the laptop slower?

as title states; just reformatted my ssd so i could do a clean install of win10 and converted it to gpt. Now that ive got that up and running it says boot manager and the name of my ssd as the primary boot which is fine i guess, but my hdd wasnt able to be listed as a second boot option like it...

Hi guys, I have currently 2 WD Black hard drives in my PC, not in a RAID configuration. Windows is installed on one, on the other there is just files such as photos, MS word files etc. I want to install fresh Windows on a new SSD drive and attach my 2 Hard drives but not lose any of their data...

Hi guys! I have the following problem and im hoping someone can help me or reassure me in the possible ending of this case. So yesterday i turned off the PC after a little gaming. Today i turned it on and i noticed something unpleasant. My HDD was missing. Not just missing it was completely...

Tl;dr computer won't boot up after downloading gta5 and crashing my pc. Trying to run my computer just on my ssd asks me to select a boot device and if I plug back in my hdd it says a disk error occured Hey guys, I'm a little bit frustrated because of the situation that's going, having to stay...

I have a ssd that I was going to replace my system hdd with but I don’t have an extra sata cable so I don’t know how to go about cloning my current hard drive because I can’t use both at the same time, I was wondering if there was some sort of workaround without buying another cable since most...

So before today, everything was running perfectly other than I was getting some pagefile BSoDs here and there. My friend recommended I turn off pagefile settings to prevent that BSoD from happening so I did that and I haven't had any problems until today when every time I try to load into a game...

Hi... So installed new NVME 970 PRO SSD 1TB and used a flash drive with windows 10 to get a fresh install. I made sure not to connect any SSD's while installing windows and then after installed i re-connected the SSD's. After doing that everything is fine apart from my HDD (D) Drive with...

Hi Everyone, So here is the breakdown, I am going to keep this as simple as possible. I am helping out a friend with a build that I did a while ago and essentially is now a new build. The first build I did for him just randomly crapped out after two years, literally would not boot. Still not...

I had a 1tb hdd with all my files and windows on it, and now i have installed a 250gb ssd with windows on it. When windows boots, its like I have a new pc and all my old hdd files are in disk drive f. My entire old pc is on that drive and i want it so that both drives are linked... Is there...

So apparently the HDD im using has SSD storage available (if that makes sense, im new to the whole pc world), basically im trying to install a game (EFT) onto the SSD to help with the load times but i cant seem to find a way to access the SSD on the drive. If im not mistaken, its an intel optane...

Specs: OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit CPU: Intel core i3-8350k 4GHz Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z370-Plus Gaming BIOS: American Megatrends 0610, 1/11/2018 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB RAM: 4x4GB Crucial DDR4-2400 UDIMM (Model: CT4G4DFS824A) New OS hard drive (SSHD): Seagate FireCuda 2TB SSHD...

Hello guys I'm having a problem with games in my HDD, I have SDD with my OS and some games in it and i also have some other games in the HDD installed. My specs are: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 16 Gb Ram Gigabyte RTX2070 Super Kingston HDD - 1TB Samsung HD103SJ SSD - 500 GB The problem here is... the...

I purchased a Samsung SSD to migrate my windows 10 system to the new drive. I've seen other topics having issues where users will get the "BOOTMGR is missing" after migration. But my problem is happening BEFORE I even got to the migration step. I simply shut down the computer, plugged in the...

Hi, I have a Core i5 9400k, Asus TUF B-365M Plus Gaming motherboard and a WD SSD Internal (240 GB). I am in need of a 2 TB Internal HDD. Is there any compatibility variables I need to be worried about when picking my HDD, like picking the same brand for eg. If not can anyone recommend me a good...

Hi everyone. My Windows 7 desktop is freezing occasionally. Most of the time it unfreezes after a while. Last time, I force rebooted it and it didn't booted back up. I messed around and it booted, but got stuck on the Windows logo screen. Some more messing around and it booted like nothing had...

Hi, am unclear about backing data, when you do a back up, let's say its a 500 gb disk, does the backup ALSO require 500 gb to do the back up, or does imaging stuff take up less space?? what program should i use for backing up ?

Hi, I plan to buy an SSD this coming Christmas. The question that I have is is it possible to move my current Windows 10 to the New SSD without harming the Ubuntu? I have a current dual boot configuration and I don't want to touch the Ubuntu as much as possible. Thanks. Specs: ASUS TUF FX505DY...

I'm about to do my first major PC upgrade in half a decade. The only things staying on are little things like case fans, a wifi adapter I don't really use now but hey no reason to get rid of it, optical drive, my case, and my HDD. I'm strongly inclined to get an SSD (though I haven't decided on...