Add more disk space => another SSD

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boland

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#268226 6-Mar-2020 14:09

I've got a Prime B450-Plus motherboard, with an M2 SSD 240GB installed. Using Windows 10.

As I'm running out of disk space I want to add another drive. However, my motherboard only seems to have one M2 slot. It does support PCIe drives, but I can't seem to find them anywhere in NZ? So that leaves me to only SATA?

Also, I would like to make my C-Drive a striped volume, but that doesn't seem to be supported for boot drives? So that would leave me with an additional volume?

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engedib

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#2433663 6-Mar-2020 14:14

It's not easily possible (maybe with dynamic disks, but they are a pain) but you can easily move your documents / pictures, other folders to the second drive.

Or can do mount points as well.

Dugimodo

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#2433750 6-Mar-2020 14:28

There is no good reason to stripe an SSD it's better not to.

Your options are either buy a bigger m.2 drive to replace your existing one, or buy an additional SATA drive for storage.

For file storage a regular hard drive is the most cost effective solution and still perfomrs well enough, if you want to install programs on a second drive and are worried about launch times etc then get a SATA SSD.

In real world terms the differenence between using a fast M.2 SSD and a slower SATA SSD is not that noticeable under most circumstances.