Can you set the M.2 SSd card in your BIOS for Data File Storage?

[jonahperalta13]

So I had a gift from my uncle recently and it was a Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB.

He told me that to put in that SSD as Raid 0 (or something like that). He didn't gave me much details, maybe he did but just didn't understand the language of a Computer Engineer. He said to make the booting of computer and apps fast.

But, the thing is, my uncle didn't know that I have another 970 Evo 1Tb on the way for the pc I'm about to build. And here's my plan

One of the M.2 SSD will become for the "Speed Thingy"

And the other will be for storage for my files, video editing project, etC.

My question is, because i watched some vids, read some feeds already about the BIOS thingy which is the gateway to set (or program? Whatever that is) the M.2 ssd as your "Boot drive" but IS IT ALSO POSSIBLE TO MAKE THE OTHER M.2 FOR YOU DATA/FILE STORAGE?? ?

cuz i can't afford to buy HDD (not a fan of brick looking storage anyway)
Or the SATA 3 SSDs. Put all my budget for that 970 of mine.

Here's my build :

MOBO : Asus Prime X299 Deluxe
CpU : Intel Core i9 7980XE


SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE GOOD "TECHY" SAMARITANS OUT THERE TO HELP A CONFUSED FELLA HERE!!

ADVANCE THANK YOU!!

 

[smorizio]

make sure your mb has the newest bios to make sure the m2 drives work. you dont need to make the drives partion or installing harder on you than needs be. raid is for people that cant lose data and clone one frive over to anther. your better off leaving the drives in achi mode. all you need to do is point your web browser and game installer to the new drive d. before you install both drives check the pci lanes used for both slots. see if there both goiung to run at 8x or 4x speed.

 

[Spinachy]

I suggest do NOT enable any "RAID" features, as that will just complicate things without giving you any benefits for your use case.

Proceed as follows:
Install one SSD, and then load Windows, and check all is working.
Only then, install the second SSD.
This will result in one "C:" drive, and one "D:" drive. You can then keep on installing programs onto drive C:. You can move your "My Pictures", "My Documents", and "My Videos" folders to drive D:, by choosing "Properties", "Locations" after right-clicking on the folder name in Windows Explorer.

 

[jonahperalta13]

Wait... So.. SSDs (No matter what type) are storage drives as well? Like your normal "C:" You see in the Folder section? Not just for boot up thing? Meaning you can access them and put some files in them?

I.. Didn't know that.

 

[Spinachy]

You are correct. An SSD is just like a disk so far as Windows and the user are concerned, and you use it like any other disk. SSD's come with software for copying your current C: drive onto the SSD, if you do not want to re-install windows. (I like to re-install, so I have a nice, clean system to start out with, but that is up to you). After the copy, you can set your BIOS to boot from the SSD, and take out the hard drive. Your machine will then be identical to how it was before, only MUCH, MUCH faster.

Because SSDs are quite expensive (price per gigabyte), many of us use the SSD as drive C:, to hold Windows and programs, and use a large magnetic disk as drive D:, to hold videos, pictures, and games. This enables the machine to boot quickly, and programs to load fast, but still saving money on large capacity SSDs. If you have 2 SSDs, you are lucky.

 

[jonahperalta13]

Thank You So much Spinachy for Enlightening my "not so techy" mind here, really helped a lot. Yeah, lucky it is. When my uncle visited me with an 1TB SSD gift, i thought, "Whoah, rendering will just take seconds to finish". Also, didn't tell him about the SSD i just bought a night before (which is on its way). Yeah, Saved me some bucks there actually.

In all and all,, THANK YOU SPINACHY!

 

[smorizio]

hard drive have longer write life over ssd. that why system still have slower hard drives. as you did not want to kill a costly ssd with writting temp files on it on a daily basic. hard drive vendors like wd and seagate know the days of the old drives are coming to an end soon. the only thing you need to do is at some point is use online (cloud backlup) or an ext hard drive. alway have a back up plan...pc can get infected or drives can still fail.