Can I use SSD and Internal Hard drive at the Same time?

[krampus1]

I’m sure this has been asked before but can I use them at the same time. I’m new to PC Gaming and wanna build one, and the storage part has me in a knot. I was planning on getting a 2 TB Internal Hard Drive but heard SSD’s are so fast. But they don’t have much storage. So am I able to have both at the same time, but use the Hard Drive to store games and play games but sill have the speed of the SSD?

 

[volkgren]

Yes of course. The motherboard has multiple SATA ports in which you can use a number of different SSD or HDD. Install Windows on the SSD, then install the HDD afterwards to make things simple. After initializing the HDD in Disk Management, you would just change the install directory path to your HDD when installing games.

 

[scout_03]

i use this set up and work well .

 

[geofelt]

No.
If you want ssd speeds, put everything on the ssd.


It is good that ssd prices are less now.
One can buy a 500gb ssd which will hold a fair number of games for not that much.
Even 240gb might be ok if you are truly budget constrained.
That will hold windows and a handful of games.
I suggest that one defer on the hard drive until you actually need the space.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.
Use a hard drive for expansion or bulk data storage such as videos.

 

[raisonjohn]

You can install both, but, SSD will have faster SSD speeds and HDD will still have slower HDD speeds.

It is a very common setup that you use the SSD for operating system, programs, and the like, while the HDD is used for general storage including games that take up a lot of space.

The SSD may be faster for loading times (few seconds faster), esp. on open-world games, but, during gameplay itself, will not have too much significant difference vs an HDD. The fast SSD is more noticeable in OS boot time, opening apps, transfering/copying files, and other related desktop usage.