How to properly configure the SSD as boot drive and HDD as storage drive
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- In this episode, Linus answers the frequently asked question about how to properly configure the SSD + HDD setup. He covers boot sequence configuration, drive initialization as well as software configuration.
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Damn.. just got an ssd in 2019 and looking at Linus video from 2013.
Same.
On windows 10 did you have to convert it? i dont see where to create a new volume
just joined the club lol
me tooo.
Anand Charvin windows 10 wasn’t even a thing lol same boat here
Thank you 2013 Linus. Just now got an SSD in 2020 and this video still helped out a lot!
2022 going through the same wave.
Though these hard drives have been running pretty much since the first time I watched this haha
Did you have to reinstall windows onto the SSD after installing.? I want to add one to my desktop HP all In one desktop
2023 same thing
@@hogg1media627 you should if you want the ssd to be the drive that boots up the Operating system, or you can just clone your old drive into your new ssd that way you can still keep all your files into your new hard drive
its been over 10 years and 2013 linus still coming in clutch
A 7 year old video solves my problems better than any more recent videos.
Old Linus is still useful in dec.2019 😁
I was looking at his secreen and wondering is that windows 10
And he's even older now
Still in 2021
@@joshlawrence8688 Still
Still in 2024
Wow you look like Linus tech tips!
Flantauiza because it is linus. He worked for them but moved onto his own stuff
Brian Thompson no shit, it was a joke. r/woosh
@@mhambithelion wooooooosh
@@mhambithelion r/woooooosh
@@Xylz uhm i think he knows that.I think he knows that linus is still working for LTT. i think he made a joke that you didnt understnad so r/wooooosh
This man was literally living in the future
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love how Linus was still that fun and carefree guy even 7 years ago
Well, this didn't age well, lol.
@@DaVoltairewhy
Did you not here about the stuff going on behind the scenes at his company?
@@DaVoltaire what's been going on?
A whole lot of bull, from what I heard.
This helped me so much. I installed an SSD and had an issue getting it to migrate and all the forums were telling me to download all these drivers and rollback. This was to the point and exactly what I needed.
So will this work if I get a 1tb ssd and do this to my 256gb ssd laptop?!
One of the clearest and best presented demo's I've ever seen on here. Well done!
If it wasnt for Linus I would be so damn lost building my first PC, thx man
Same
+Slick Reed Linus is god
+Slick Reed Although i figured out all this rebuilding an old PC someone gave me , This is the simplest way i have heard it all explained so i am going to give it a like anyway.
SSD's are just so great , i run a separate one for operating system and another for main games i wish to play then use another 3TB HDD for other games as well as a 3TB usb 3.0 to back up the system. Sounds like overkill but it allows me to run the latest Windows 10 previews without losing any data if anything goes wrong.
Lol A+ certified
Byron Filer It's always best to do your own research too though. Even what motherboard you choose can affect framerates.
Just built my first computer thanks to Linus and I needed to set up my HDD for storage and this video helped me do that! Settings a little different but the overall picture is the same! Thanks again Linus!
Thank you!!! I know these are basic tutorials but some of us are beginners!! Without videos like this i would be completely stumped!!
bruh, i was looking at his screen like "thats not windows 10..."
Exactly😂👍🏻
Lmfao
it didnt exist in 2013. I just noticed how old this video is..lol
@@KyleInOklahoma lol yeah thats the joke... lol
@@ihatetheinternetitsawesome3578 thanks boy........ you want a closer look???? maybe even a taste?
This was a life saver! I just did my first build and couldn't figure out why I could only store to my SSD. I'm a visual learner so this was super helpful. :)
I finally got an ssd in 2020 and im looking at linus from 2013 😂
Knight and day difference right ?
hey i had a question. so this video is talking about making the ssd a boot drive but when you installed your ssd did you have to clone your windows to transfer your data or no???
@@juliansaclolo3003 he built the computer with a SSD in it, installed windows on it. And then he’s teaching us how to configure a HDD
@@jivewig forsure thanks bro
@J Espinolaall comments here are the same honestly and i did actually get an ssd in 2020 so i didnt lie lol
Listen!!! It’s 2023! Almost ten years later and you helped me a lot good sir… thank you 🙌
Just wanted to let you know that you have made my build experience less stressful and much more straight forward and I appreciate it all, thanks and merry christmas!
Finally bought an SSD 😂😂😂 in 2018.
Night and day huh
Same here bro, i wasted so many years figuring out why my computer was so damn slow but now i feel like i just bought a new one
@@shykemiuwu1157 yeah bro same happened to me ... 😂😂😂 I had 8GB RAM but shit man It was damm slow..... Now I feel much better 😀
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@@ralphbagnall7646 the fuck man ????🙄
can someone help me, please? I've installed windows 10 on a dynamic drive (2 SSD's 250GB Samsung). For some reason, it's not booting from the SSD, any recommendations?
You don't really have to mess around boot order in bios. every motherboard has SATA plugs for first and second boot. SATA 0 indicated on a motherboard is the first boot. SATA 1 is for the second boot. All you have to do is to figure out which one goes in for which drive. it reduces the complication.
Go to Linus Tech Tips
masih ga kak?
use what linus did in the id
@@redding4540 I haven’t seen that yet I will try it I’m having the same problem thanks
2021 now and a 2013 video from Linus is still better than any other thing i found, he knows his stuff
Thank you Linus i was troubling for 2 and half hours.now its done forever.
7 years later and this helped my perfectly. Thanks Linus!
This video was extremely helpful. I bought a 1T HDD and install it on my computer to my surprise nothing happened, then I figured there is a trick to it. So I went on youtube and landed on your video, it's exactly what I needed to do. Thank you so much!!!
Gonna get an ssd today at almost the end of 2020 and watching linus from 7 years ago..
Talk about nostalgia
Wait how is that nostalgia? You’ve never seen this video before 😂
You did a great job answering every question that came up. It was almost like a 1 on 1. Keep up the good work and thanks!
Youve helped me out so much mate! Always come to your channel for advice when stuck. Cheers.
Thank god I found this. I’ve been limited to 200gb of storage for a year even though I had more than 1tb of hardware space. I love this man.
I wish this was what he still did. I crave content like this!
I'm a beginner PC builder so I really appreciated this video. Thank you for explaining this well.
If i only use SSD, i need RST? i duno what exactly that program do and if the SSD needs or what needs or why.
Kikematamitos is
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VIDEO. Thank you Linus and team!
Love it when a random Linus Video from 2013 still helps me in 2022.
This guy looks familiar... I wonder why
He should make a youtube channel.
@@LukzForEver i know right!
@@DevinLatulippe damn he does look familiar
@@tototo58484 Hope that he would be *carefull* with pc parts
Oh wait
Simple, easy to understand video. Thanks for uploading this!
An old but very helpful video for my first time switching out my SSD boot drive.
The video 9y old and still helpful, thanx linus.
this is really 100% what i was looking for the only video so far the really told me what i needed very nice thank you
Me: sees linus speaking in a simple tone
Also me: wow his voice expression change from being *BORED* to *SUPER FUN* to actually watch
As an absolute beginner this was just what I needed, thankyou.
Finally bought an SSD in 2020, waiting for it to arrive.
Same got mine today
Mine is out for delivery today 😁
Has it arrived yet?
newcrt yes
@@GangsterDolphins good to know
i genuinely came back to this video 7 years later to help me configure my pc lol
How do u get to the Web Installation Wizard?
Thank you so much,its been hard for me to wrap my head around alot of these sorts of things i just get so confused.subbed
This helped me 8 years later. Thanks Linus!
Man I wish I found this video before I took my pc back apart to ensure the drive was plugged in right. Thanks for the help, never built a pc before.
+Zach Kokiri Welcome to years of frustration and fun all rolled into one. Something just never feels right for me when i plug in a console game and it just works lol. I always end up having more fun mucking about with PC's.
just wondering, even if i have already got my operating system and all my other files on my current hdd, if i setup an ssd and hdd system like this will it start booting my os from the ssd or do i have to place it onto the ssd and manually place whatever current files i have on my hdd that i want on my ssd to my ssd
If you hook up an SSD, just go into the BIOS settings and put it at the top of your boot sequence. Once you have your OS installed, you'll boot off of your SSD instead of your normal HDD. Your old hard drive will just be a drive letter, and your programs will have to be reinstalled on the new SSD, however the program files from your HDD will still be available. All the data (pictures, music, videos etc. will also be located on your old HDD.
This was everything I was looking for!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you I just installed a SSD today and copied everything over to it and could not figure out how to set it as my boot drive but I watched your video and bam got it set perfectly.
Thanks
Back when Linus was just a humble employee. Bet he'd never have dreamt that he'd go on to be a multimillionaire with the biggest name in the tech space.
That graphics card looks rad. Bet its fastest operation is in the field of stealing a 6-pack of beer from a gas station.
didn't think i'd need this video 10 years later, but i did. thank you linus
I love the old feel of these videos
Dude, why couldn't I have had a teacher like you when I was going to IT vocational school? Your much better than any IT instructor I had. You explain things clearly and in detail. Do you have any Networking videos? Thanks again for all your effort in putting this together!
he has a channel Linus tech tips ik that this is after 2 years of your comment
You are*
So for a new PC, would I first install Windows oem from a usb THEN do the steps in the video to set the SSD as the boot drive?
Yea
how do i get windows onto a usb
Download it on to your usb from a separate computer
+Neel top kek
ya, he kind of skipped the part about installing windows to the new SSD drive
Thank you so much helped me out so much love your videos would like to see more like this you make it simple and to the point
2021 and saved me from big stress. Thank you a bunch!
7 years later.. installing everything on my 970 evo 1TB nvme m.2 lol
imagine not having both a m.2 and a hdd
The only problem with having a separate HDD for storage is that it takes a second or so to access as it's always sitting idle. This can be a little frustrating when accessing many folder locations quickly.
Is it frustrating trying to save the planet?
@@Ioganstone what?
7 years later and still is perfect
Can't believe its 2021 but this is still the only video about this topic with quality
another alternave for setting a defauilt folder to external storage
C:\users\youruseraccount then right click on the folder of your choice (music for example) click properties, click on location and then move, navigate to the folder of your choice and then voila, you have changed the loacation
I also recommend moving your temporary folder to the external device as well and take advantage of the TRIM feature on your SSD
Using this method where can I find the folder/folders for the operating system to put it on the SSD
You know you're watching an old video when you see Linus on NCIX.
9 years later this is more useful than most other youtube videos
Great presentation and video. Really useful. Thank you.
Do you have a window 10 version? Also cloning it.
Thank you
Ask NCIX to make a new video abt it.
@AThePetrov and then when NCIX went bankrupt
man i would love you to do an updated version of this
Absolutely
2022 linus been watching you all the ears and your video was the best help thanks man 😀😀😀
Linus is immortalized as the tech god that he is, helping people learn, set-up and fix their computers for generations to come
I read through a few of the reply's here and I have to say I'm disappointed to see so much bickering. Some folks use this format to learn something. Just a few straight answers are all most folks want, not to get into and argument or be called stupid for not knowing as much as the next guy. After all, the only stupid question, is the one that's not asked....
thast youtube my friend , everyone's a expert and everyone's right , it anoys me too
Took me 2 solid years of slow editing to realise SSD are much faster and more ram the better.
Also if I can use my old HDD as storage then happy days.
I'm going to my PC and now setting save defaults to my storage HDD.
Even my render output files keeping me SSD clean from filling up.
Thanks for this window really helped bring light on things.
This video from 2013 helped me! Thank you Linus!
Still useful in 2020! God bless Linus :)
Do you have to install windows on your new ssd first?
Have u found an answer? I have the same question
@@Julian-rh6pj yes you have to download windows on your ssd first.
Captain Sar oh alright, thank you 👍🏻
So to get things like games and adobe editing programs to boot up faster would I get an SSD as a boot drive, and store all of said games and video/photo editing programs on an HDD? I'm a bit confused here and about to try and get into this. I would think I need to install the games and programs on the SSD to see the speed boosts, but can the SSD boot things up that have been downloaded and stored on my HDD, and if so does it affect the speed of the boot-up? I am a bit of a noob I apologize.
The main reason to get an SSD are indeed the speeds. But, in order to get that speed, you need to install the program and store al its files onto the SSD in it's entirety. If you install the program on the SSD and store the files it uses on the HDD, you get a program that boots very fast, but loading the files (and saving / rendering) will be downscaled to the speed of the HDD.
To take your Adobe editing programs as an example: If you install Adobe After Effects on your SSD, but store all your video, sound, effects, etc. files on your HDD, After Effects will start up very quickly. Adding filters, motion tracking, etc. is very responsive, but when you're done editing, and are going to render the video, it will be slowed down, because the files it uses to render the video are on the slower HDD.
To clarify some things from your comments: You don't need to set the SSD as a boot drive, in order for programs to load faster. You can have your windows on an HDD, but your programs on your SSD. Your hard drive does NOT handle booting programs. That's a task for your CPU (in combination with RAM, or sometimes called "internal memory"). You get more speed from an SSD when loading programs, because the SSD can transmit data much faster to the CPU, than an HDD does. That's why SSD is so much faster.
I hope this helps you. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask! You don't have to apologise, just because you're just getting into these things. Everybody started from the bottom, and worked their way up by asking these kinds of questions. Ask away, and you will learn! And perhaps you will help a beginner in the future ;)!
What a wonderful response! Really, thank you so much! So it seems like an inexpensive way to see faster boot speeds when using things like After Effects, Premiere Pro, Animate CC would be to purchase a decent amount of RAM? The CPU I recently purchased is an i7-6800K so when I am ready to fully upgrade my PC, I don't think that will cause any problems. I only use 8GB of RAM but after this I am now thinking of doubling that. From what you're saying about the boot drive/storage drive set-up, it also seems like setting up an SSD as a boot drive would help gamers with huge game libraries with boot up times for games, but since I don't exclusively game, would removing the HDD element entirely and just purchasing a large 1-1.2TB SSD to keep everything on (and maybe an external hard drive to archive completed projects) be the ideal solution? Thank you again for taking the time to help me!
+DtC the most important component for video editing is your graphics card. That component defines the speed of the render. AfterHDDAfter that come the CPU/RAM. If it is not too expensive, more RAM is always good.
I would not buy a 1TB SSD. One 250GB or 2 120GB drives in RAID0, but that last option is a bit more advanced. The reason? Money. A 1TB SSD is way more expensive than buying a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD
I agree with everything you said besides the graphics card being the reason for faster render times. Your CPU cores is what boost decreases your rendering times. I have experimented with this. My current computer has a better graphic card than my last computer even more ram but is slower to render videos because my last computer had a better processor. This is from Sony Vegas. Maybe other programs might utilize cuda better but for the most part Sony Vegas utilizes the processor more than it does the graphic card.
Another great option is too buy a 500 SSD use that for rendering and stuff then once you already made the video you can transfer it to your HDD just for storage. I like to keep my old videos so thats a great way to do it. Instead of using up your expensive SSD. The magic guy gave some great advice though but yea dont buy a 1TB ssd drive thats crazy expensive
It is mind boggling how incredible you are at teaching complicated things. 🤝
8 years later and this tutorial is still valid
Wow this guy was so helpful he's gonna be big one day
obvious troll
🤣🤣🤣
What if the hhd you’re installing already has data you want to keep. Can this be done without loosing the data?
I'm in same boat. I just want to see what is on my old disk from old computer first. (Not showing as a folder, but in Disk Management). Not vibrating when I put hand on it. Not sure how to kick-start its heart.
Wow.. how far you have come !!
Thank you for doing this, it is very helpful!
It’s a shame he doesn’t have his own channel, he could get 11+ Million subs
Edit: most likes I’ve ever had lol, 156
@Albanstyler ...
Albanstyler it’s a joke
@Albanstyler no he doesn't
@Albanstyler r/woosh
@Albanstyler r/wooosh
When I see a video from 8 years ago, I don’t know why I just think the video is from 2009
Because it looks like it is from 2009
Just got an m.2 ssd in 2021 and looking at Linus video from 2013, proving to be useful.
Every path, every tech hardware search, leads me to Linus.
"Im managing u now" I LoLed
I have an HDD with my operating system in it and im planing to buy a SSD. Will thus still work and am i able to put my os to the ssd for a faster Boottime?
Yes. You just need to install the OS on your SSD and alter your boot order to look for the SSD first. You should also format your HDD too.
+ParkPants and how do I do that
what do you mean format your harddrive?
Hi ,I have brand new SSD and a current HDD in my setup .
Should i format my HDD first then go thru the process of installing OS in SSD or do the later first ? Thanks
If you want to keep your files, use a data migration tool to clone over your files to your ssd. If you have a Samsung SSD, that software should be provided for you in the included CD. If not, a good tool is EasyUs Todo Backup. Otherwise, I usually install the OS on the SSD first then clean the HDD through command line later.
Deyym still watch this on 2022. Thanks man
It's 2024 and this shit still works... Thank you Linus.
Thank youuu !! this vdeo helped me so mush ! i bought a SSD and i wanted to use this SSD ONLY for my OS , and i dont knew how to do that ! now i know !
Thanks Linus, this is just what I needed. Subscribed.
Video still staying strong post-pandemic. Thanks!
I feel like all of these new comments are from people who bought the crucial m.2 from the flash sale on Amazon day lol. This is one of those comments.
Yeah... that's me
No I bought a hdd for my first build and didn’t think anything of pairing it with an ssd. Boot times and launch speeds aren’t terrible but from what I can gather they will be MUCH bette
Can we get an updated version of this?
Even a mac version
@@WV_Smoke why Mac? Window 100% better
@@WindIsCalm well I have a mid 2010 imac and it only saves to its boot ssd and not the mass storage hdd.
@@WindIsCalm Depends for what you do, you cant beat the build quality of a MacBook Pro and it's great for editing and compute tasks and windows is always the go to for gaming
We have to bring ncix back from bankruptcy and you’re paying for it
Pretty awesome these steps still apply today!
This was the only vid that actually helped me
Again.... What if the old HDD is full of data. Its all very well making a tutorial with nice clean new disc's but that's not a real world scenario. 99 times out of 100 people will be upgrading from an older HDD to a nice new SSD where they want to keep all their old data but use the new SSD as the boot disc, only for the OS. Can anyone help? literally no one has made an instructional video of forum post covering this topic in a credible manner.
same. all os migration software are now NOT FREE unlike 3 years or so ago.
I just put all my important stuff on a 128gb sd card and started from scratch. Seemed like the easier route for me
Make a backup of everything and just format, best way to do it
I happened to disconnect my HDD (which had everything installed into it) to allow my new SSD to install windows without any hassle. Turned pc off, plugged the HDD back in, voila, hope it works.
You can clone your OS partition to SSD using Macrium Reflect. It has a free license so u don't need to pay to use it. Hope this helps
2019
Built my first rig.
Still planning to buy an SSD rofl
Very details, thank you so much
7 years later still helpful this guy should create his own channel called Linus tech tips
Please do a new video on this on windows 10!!!
I found that it is a similar process. Right click on the windows icon to see the management options such as disk management and computer management. To move files such as music you right click and select properties then to location in the properties panel at the top, from here you can move it to your other drive.
***** thanks for that!
It's the exact same thing.. simple and easy
its the same shit
It works in the same exact way, I just installed a new SSHD (yea, Solid State Hybrid Drive, new thing)