Question Thinking about getting a M.2 22110 PCIe?

[Cpt Snake]

Right now I have three 3.5 WD hard drives. Question: Is it possible to have just one SSD drive as the operating system drive and the other drives remain as they are at present? TY

 

[Lutfij]

Question: Is it possible to have just one SSD drive as the operating system drive and the other drives remain as they are at present?
Answer: Yes but if your OS is installed on one of the HDD's, I'd either reinstall the OS onto the SSD of your choice or clone the OS drive onto the SSD. If you do reinstall the OS, you will need to disconnect all drives except for the one you wish to install the OS onto.

Can you please state what your motherboard's make and model is? If its the one listed in your sig space, please include it in your thread's body as sig space specs can and will change, rendering worthwhile suggestions moot to the end user in the same boat as you're in now.

 

[COLGeek]

If you change the location of the OS/boot drive, you'll have to reinstall all of your applications as well.

You can replace your current OS/boot drive, via cloning, to avoid this. This would then require you to format the original HDD for reuse (or just removing it would work as well.)

 

[SkyNetRising]

Thinking about getting a M.2 22110 PCIe

M.2 drives are usually in 2280 form factor.
22100 is less popular.

 

[Cpt Snake]

Thanks for the response. I was just wondering on the success of mixing and matching the SSD drives with what they call Legacy drives. With the SSD drive with the OS, and legacy drives for my games.
My MB :
ASUS TUF Gaming Z590 Plus GamingMotherboard (ATX, 11th/10th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1200 Socket, DDR4,PCIe 4, CFX, M.2 Slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2, DP/HDMI, Mystic Light

 

[COLGeek]

Thanks for the response. I was just wondering on the success of mixing and matching the SSD drives with what they call Legacy drives. With the SSD drive with the OS, and legacy drives for my games.
My MB :
ASUS TUF Gaming Z590 Plus GamingMotherboard (ATX, 11th/10th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1200 Socket, DDR4,PCIe 4, CFX, M.2 Slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2, DP/HDMI, Mystic Light

Works perfectly fine. No worries.

 

[Cpt Snake]

It's settled. Thanks 😉

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the response. I was just wondering on the success of mixing and matching the SSD drives with what they call Legacy drives.

My system has 6x physical drives.
1 PCIe 4.0
1 PCIe 3.0
4x SATA III

Each with their own purpose.