Will an SSD work side by side with my HDD? like a partition of sorts. null

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Yoori · Accepted Answer

My setting is Choose SDD as primary boot disk which means I only run necessary software on the SDD then set other HDD as your storage files disk...

Chris · Answer

If you can connect another SATA drive, then yes. It won't be like a partition, it will be a separate drive. 

If you have a laptop, you probably don't have anywhere to physically install a second drive (although some laptops do). If your laptop has an optical drive (or a place for one) you can get an optical bay hard drive caddy and use that space and SATA connection for your second drive. 

If you have a desktop, you can get a set of 2.5" to 3.5" adapter rails to mount the SSD in a hard drive slot. 

If you do this, use the SSD for your OS and keep data on the slower magnetic drive.

Mikk · Answer

If you put the OS on the SSD and use the HDD as storage, you get a big performance bump. Of course that means reinstalling the OS on the new drive and setting it to the boot device in the BIOS.

Anthonythate25 · Answer

Yes it will. I'm actually doing the same. I have my 1 terabyte HDD for storage and my SSD for my Windows install. All I use my SSD for is boot speed.

Bkourman · Answer

Yes, just like any other drive

BestBuyBBY · Answer

SSD works just like a regular drive. If you have both connected via sata connections, you will see two drives just like two old style hard drives. Except, SSD will be much faster as it does not have any moving mechanical parts. So boot your OS to the SSD drive will make your computer much faster.

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