install a secondary ssd

[timmythesaint]

Hello everybody,

I need to know how to install a secondary ssd drive. The pc is a Windows 7 machine with a current ssd. I have got hold of another, larger ssd mainly for storage, but I still need fast data recovery from the 2nd disc.
Question - how do I install it? I realise that there is an ocean of install an ssd drive videos on YouTube but none of these seem to cover installing a secondary ssd drive.

Can anyone help me here - remember that you may address me as a grown up would a child in pre-school. A soft voice turneth away wrath, and in this case may be of assistance. Pictures are just a lovely bonus.
If anyone can show me how, or show me to a place that can show me I would be ever sp grateful,
Thanks
Tim in Copenhagen

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Connect the SATA data cable, connect the SATA power cable, drop it in your case anywhere (preferably put it in a drive bay if you have any 2.5" bays available, but SSDs can be literally placed anywhere and operate normally), boot up the PC, done.

SATA data cable:

SATA power cable:

Yours may look slightly different (power cable may be a black ribbon-style cable or sleeved and the data cable may be black instead), however the connectors are all the same.

 

[OCD Tweaker]

you would install a second ssd the same way you would the primary ssd

you would run a sata cable from the ssd to one of the sata ports on the board (they look like lil rectangles and they only fit in one place aswell)

and the other cable i dont remember what its called but its a wider than the sata plug that in(HERES A VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSRGhuk39EM

 

[rehed21]

After you perform the above steps - format it within disk management to make it usable and to assign a drive letter.