2 SSD and 1 HDD?

[ionakana511]

I currently have 1 Samsung 850 EVO to run my operating system and some other files. I bought another Crucial MX100 512gb SSD mainly for games. I then recently bought a WD Blue 1TB hdd for pretty cheap mainly to use for photos and music. How would I go about installing and configuring this setup? I'm extremely new to building/configuring so I'm not even sure if its possible to have 2 SSD's and 1 HDD. I'd pretty much like to be able to choose which drive I want to save to when I download games or upload music/photos.

Any advice is helpful!

Thanks!

 

[Karsten75]

As long as you have SATA ports (data) and electrical connections available, you can install any number of SSDs or HDDs in any combination.

Install the device, open WIndows Device manager and make sure it's formatted a a drive letter is assigned to it. Then it will show up. Usually your boot drive (SSD?) will be C: and subsequent drives or SSDs will be D:, e: etc in My Computer or in Windows Explorer. You can label the drives with a meaningful name. After that, create a folder on the drive and just move files of the type you wish into the folder.

 

[GeForce Junky]

If it is a fresh build:
1) Install all drives into case, but only plug in OS drive (850evo)
2) Install OS
3) Turn off and connect other drives
4) Use disk management in windows to assign partitions to the 2 other drives.

 

[kapitalistas]

I currently have 1 Samsung 850 EVO to run my operating system and some other files. I bought another Crucial MX100 512gb SSD mainly for games. I then recently bought a WD Blue 1TB hdd for pretty cheap mainly to use for photos and music. How would I go about installing and configuring this setup? I'm extremely new to building/configuring so I'm not even sure if its possible to have 2 SSD's and 1 HDD. I'd pretty much like to be able to choose which drive I want to save to when I download games or upload music/photos.

Any advice is helpful!

Thanks!

too complicated i find that 500gb for games not wort it,its fill up waster then i though.
of cause if can connect all (your motherboard let you,can use other HHD as external storage,but well again i find that difficult-uncomfortable)what i did i bought 2.5 inch SSD 250GB (cheaper was that time) and get 2TB hard drive FOR games and video,pictures and its almost full. i can use (my motherboard supports) 3 storage units one very low hard drive just 250 GB.
other two already mention.for games i use hard drive yes its slower after moved from SSD i can see the difference on some specific times when launching a game.if you have to do Windows reinstall its a big headache reinstall programs and games if you dont know what your doing.