HDD + SSD Combo

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...

Hi, Recently I purchased GSkill Trident Z RGB 3200MHz (https://www.gskill.com/product/165/166/1536654268/F4-3200C16D-16GTZRTrident-Z-RGBDDR4-3200MHz-CL16-18-18-38-1.35V16GB-(2x8GB)) by default my Gigabyte AB350m Gaming 3 motherboard set it as 1886MHz and overclocked it to 3200MHz (using...

Do not know what is supposed to be buy i have been Search for days about 860 or 970 evo m.2 i have gigabyte b250 gaming 3 motherboard and wanna know if i buy 970 evo m.2 going have full speed like site's say 3.500MB\S or should go for 860 !!! really need some help guys

Hello, I ran into this problem today, I bought new SSD and HDD, and I connected them with two SATA DATA CABLES and both with a SINGLE SATA POWER CABLE with 4 sata pins on the cable. But when running windows it does not show the HDD still. At first I though it was my SATA motherboard Cable but...

Hi all, I'm looking into expanding my Xbox One X console storage through external means. I'm looking to increase by 2 - 4TB however want to know a bit more about what to get. I understand that the Xbox One X default drive runs at 5,400 RPM and supposedly most External HDD drives match or...

Heyo! First and foremost.. I've never upgraded/mingled inside of a PC or laptop before, but I've been told it's like following instructions for a lego set so that should be fine :D I'm planning to upgrade the RAM and Storage capacity of my XPS 15 9570. Regarding the RAM upgrade I've found some...

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I've put my SSD in HDD place and put HDD in DVD bay by helping of caddy and the both slots are sata3 but hdd speed is less then 2 mbps. Lenovo Ideapad 110 8GB DDR4 ram 2 GB AMD Radeon graphics any solutions?

I am going to help install a new M.2 SSD into my friend's system soon. I know that making a clone of the file system is one of the better methods for doing this, but I am not quite sure what the best method is o go about it. He only has the one hard drive in his system and he does not have...

I was wondering which is better for gaming and also running programs and everyday use. M.2 nvme SSD + HDD or just a SSHD?

Hey guys! First post. I have a Inspiron 15 7567 Gaming Laptop. (Link below) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-15-7000-7567-Gaming-Notebook-Review.196454.0.html It is the variant being reviewed in the link with the 6 cell 75W battery, so the battery life is already pretty decent for...

Hey guys! First post. I have a Inspiron 15 7567 Gaming Laptop. (Link below) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-15-7000-7567-Gaming-Notebook-Review.196454.0.html It is the variant being reviewed in the link with the 6 cell 75W battery, so the battery life is already pretty decent for...

I am using HP desktop i7-3770 and 256gb SSD windows10 pro 64bit (build 18362 updated to 1903). System model is HP Compaq elite 8300 SFF. I have an old 3.5" 500GB HDD. I want to use it as an extra storage disk. I connected it to motherboard via sata cable. When I turn on the PC, I got this...

Hi, I recently installed an nvme drive and did a clean windows install on it. I still have windows on my old hard drive but the program files are there so now i can't open any programs from there help, thanks. When I try to open programs it said the directory is missing. Is it possible to have 2...

I have a HDD in my computer, but I got a new M.2 SSD. I did a clean install of Windows 10, (didn't format my HDD yet) but now in BIOS I have 2 of the same drive in the boot priority settings. As in: Windows Boot Manager ( KINGSTON SA2000M8500G) KINGSTON SA2000M8500G If I disable the first one...

Hello, So I just finished my first build and got an SSD to install Win10 on it. Now I was wondering how I could transfer most of my data from my HDD that still has windows 10 installed to my SSD? I was thinking about simply unplugging the HDD and then installing Win10 on my SSD and once it's...

Im planning to split my sata power from my psu cus it only came with two sata power cables what i am worrying is that it may have low power that affects its performance (low power = slow performance?)

So I recently bought a new ssd for my computer. I have a SATA hard drive from before. When I boot up my computer on the hard drive without the ssd everything's fine, when I plug inn the ssd my hard drive no longer shows up in the boot menu on bios.

i have an acer laptop with intel pentium 4417u and 4gigs of RAM along with toshiba 5400rpm HDD. i don't run any heavy applications on my laptop just browsing and multitasking , considering a low budget what should i firsrt upgrade on my laptop ? -> swapping my HDD with a 250gbSSD or putting in...

so hey peers! i recently bought a new laptop it is a budget segment laptop Acer aspire3 (a315-53-p4my) it is powered by an intel 4417u processor and 4gb ram. So as you know the specs arent great and so i decided to put in a 120gb ssd to boot my OS but i am not able to confirm whether it has M.2...

After booting off my new SSD, I no longer can find files in my HDD. It’s like they no longer exist. When I click on windows and search for applications and files that I have on my HDD they do not show up but hey are still there. I can still find the HDD applications that I have on it but when I...

Hello long story short, PC makes 1 beep sound once in a while since I played Diablo 3 on my HDD. Got Freezes, long loadingscreen ( Only in Diablo 3) while my Task Manager said everything is alright and I even do other stuff in the meantime. Swapped Diablo 3 to my SSD and it works totally...

Hello, Recently I got and installed a new ssd into my computer. My goal with this new ssd was for it to store the OS and other frequently used apps. Following some online tutorials, I used AOEMI partition assistant’s “migrate OS to SSD” tool. After finishing, the computer began booting from the...

I have 2 OS Windows 7 and Windows 10 I recently got banned from a game that I like of no apparent reason, so I bought and installed a new SSD and a new HDD, but I don't have a USB so I just added the windows 10 installation on the HDD and made it a partition then installed it to my SSD and it...

Hello, MSI Z97 1 250Gb Crucial SSD, 2 WD HDD @ 1Tb and 3Tb, GTX 970, I5 4960k, ASUS disk drive Last night I ran windows update. Today I was unable to boot my computer. It was stuck on the BIOS screen with a loading icon spinning indefinitely. I then did some troubleshooting. Unplugged both...

My locality is prone to outages or something is being worked on. In any case, the reason for this setup: I have backups of my work programs on one SSD and files on a HDD so should the SSD for the work programs fail, I can always have a backed up copy with program folders intact, but if the OS...

My wife bought me as a gift an ASUS FX504GM-E4060T wich has a SSD of 256 GB and an HDD of 1T, currently is charging and i have serious doubt: I know that SDD are supposed to be faster than an HDD, but how do i manage to make it that way? Do you think Win10 will be installed in the SDD...

Hello, I'm planning to buy an SSD from my computer and I wanna use it together with my old HDD. Would I need to switch between the two drivers or can I just start Windows from the SSD and access the files I wanna keep on the HDD from there?

So I had a 1TB hard drive that I used to use as my main C drive but it was so freaking slow and would usually hit around 100% and I tried a lot of things and nothing worked to stop it from always hitting 100% at like 5mbps (bc of this Fortnite and other games literally would stutter and freeze...

Hello, I create all sorts of visuals as a hobby. A week ago I bought this SSD. My current laptop setup is 2x WD Black HDD [both 500gb]. HDD 1 containts OS, all the software, documents and personal files. HDD 2 contains all of my games + I store every project that I currently work on, this...

I want to upgrade my PC to have an SSD, butI already have several Terabytes of data stored on an HDD. Is it possible to create a partition with Winows and a few programs on that I can then transfur to an SSD to use as my boot device? This would save me alot of time as I would not have to backup...

Around 6 months ago I used Macrium reflect to transfer my boot drive into an SSD. It was agony, but it eventually worked. Now I want to reset my pc, start fresh, and I can't, I get an error using the default factory reset tool. I think it's because of my terrible partition job... Any Help?

I got one of those 2.5INCH HDD caddies that mount in place of optical drives. Mounted under Windows 10, It boots fine and works fine. but after doing I/O operations and rebooting for whatever reason. It starts sabotaging the booting process. it takes Windows too long to boot. after it finally...

so hello, sometimes when i turn my pc on this problem happens: i see my monitor blinking every 5 or 3 seconds and i don't see the yellow led on my case front panel working (which indicates that the storage drive is being used) and its a samsung 860 evo . so in order to fix this problem i turn my...

My 2nd HDD is not detected in BIOS or disk management anymore. This has occured after installing a new M.2 SSD. The SSD has been recognised by both disk management and BIOS but i cannot find the 2nd HDD anymore. The hard drive itself is still working and ive tried unplugging and plugging back...

So I built a new PC where I installed windows 10 on an SSD. Now after I built the PC I found a 1TB HDD in one of my old builds. Can I add that old HDD onto the new build and use it as storage? The old HDD also has windows 10 installed, is there any way that I only have to format the C drive and...

I need info on what app i should use, what to do before etc. I know its trivial but i dont want to frick up something HDD: Seagate barracuda 1TB (2016 model) SSD: WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB And im sure everything will fit into the ssd

To put it simply, after i tried to do a byte copy of my hdd to my ssd, i turned it on and it kept shoeing the cursor with the blue loading circle, after another reboot with changed boot device (boot on my hdd) it simply said insert proper boot device, also setting the boot order doesnt seem to...

Playing games and I'll get pretty big ping spikes and when I look in the task manager, there are random apps that i don't know are running in the disk drive and sometimes in Ethernet. Don't know what a lot of them are and they slow down my PC pretty big when I start it up. Don't know what to do.

Hey everyone, I could really use some help here to fix my current windows installation. A couple of months ago I purchased a Samsung SSD for my boot drive. I installed a fresh copy of windows and turned my old 500GB hard drive for storage. I thought I had set it up correctly. When I first got it...