Hello,
My son has an Alienware laptop for gaming.
We bought and installed a Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB a while ago as the laptop only came with 256Gb (
LITEONIT L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GB).
The original drive has died and now we run the laptop off the Samsung SSD. This is fine but I want to add more storage. I was thinking about getting the same card again or bigger but I need to know if I can combine the storage so it reads as if it's one memory?
From googling I found this: The best configuration, in GORT's opinion, is to use two identical SSD's in a RAID1 configuration.
That would create a faster read/write experience than separate or single SSD configurations, and offer redundancy to boot! (no, pun not intended ... OK, yes it was)
You could also create two partitions (OS & DATA) ... your call, but that's what GORT would do.
This is what I want to do I think. The Samsung 850 has been replaced by the 860. If I buy an 860 with more capacity (maybe 1tb) can I run the two together like this?
Also, are there instructions online for how to do this? When I look for installing these drives, I find instructions on how to physically install them. I can do that bit. I don't know how to set the PC up once they're both installed. I'm not that techie but I can follow instructions.
any ideas?
thanks,
Keelie
My son has an Alienware laptop for gaming.
We bought and installed a Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB a while ago as the laptop only came with 256Gb (
LITEONIT L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GB).
The original drive has died and now we run the laptop off the Samsung SSD. This is fine but I want to add more storage. I was thinking about getting the same card again or bigger but I need to know if I can combine the storage so it reads as if it's one memory?
From googling I found this: The best configuration, in GORT's opinion, is to use two identical SSD's in a RAID1 configuration.
That would create a faster read/write experience than separate or single SSD configurations, and offer redundancy to boot! (no, pun not intended ... OK, yes it was)
You could also create two partitions (OS & DATA) ... your call, but that's what GORT would do.
This is what I want to do I think. The Samsung 850 has been replaced by the 860. If I buy an 860 with more capacity (maybe 1tb) can I run the two together like this?
Also, are there instructions online for how to do this? When I look for installing these drives, I find instructions on how to physically install them. I can do that bit. I don't know how to set the PC up once they're both installed. I'm not that techie but I can follow instructions.
any ideas?
thanks,
Keelie
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