How do I use two ssds

[Redxeric]

I currently have a evo 850 500gb as my only hard drive and I am planning to get another evo 850 500gb some time soon. I have never built a pc with 2 hard drives before. Do I just plug it in and it will work or are there some more steps before I will need to do to get it working. I am aware that I will need to install applications and manually set them to another location, but are there ways that it would just automatically go to another hard drive when one is full or combining both of them in to one storage?

 

[The Paladin]

yes plug it in sata 2 and your pc will recognize it in bios and in windows, format and enjoy!

nothing automatic, aside moving documents, pictures, video folders, you right click on documents folder for example when pulling a new explorer windows (left side icons,) and you goto location folder, enter a new location D:\documents for example and it will move all those files over to the new drive and set "documents" from now on to be at that location. I did this for documents, music, videos, pictures, downloads. it does remove a fair amount of stuff depending on what you have in those drives.

as for games, steam games can easily be removed and reinstalled (and yes you will have to tell it d:\games (what I use on my d drive) though your stats and personal settigns will remain in c:\program files\steam\user directory the bulk of the game will now reside on your D drive

I suggest you start a new folder called on your D: drive "Program files" windows likes that for installing applications.
so when a program tried to install to c:\program files\name of program, you only have to change the C: for a D:

 

[USAFRet]

Read this:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

For Steam games:

Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder