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Fun adding an SSD
Bought a 1.0 Terabyte SSD for second hard drive / backup
Removed drive cage. Installed it upside down on the hard drive cage holes. Hooked up power cable. Had to buy a couple SATA cables to get the one with 90 degree on one end and straight on the other cost 4 dollars. Boot up showed drive. Windows disk management created drive and set drive letter to D. Quick Format. Done.
SATA and POWER cables
XPS guts
Runs very cool and quiet.
JOcean
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December 10th, 2019 14:00
Well done and well thought out upgrade installation.
Vic384
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December 11th, 2019 14:00
@mikehood1 Why didn't you clone the HDD and make the SSD your boot drive?
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December 16th, 2019 07:00
Well I thought about cloning the boot drive to the SSD. Like everyone else. Only thing my system has been running 100% with no problems for 2 years and I didn't want to change it.
Dell XPS 8910
C: drive RAID with M.2 SSD Intel RST
Second D drive 1.0 Terabyte SSD mainly for backup
Wimpy Geforce 750 graphics card
460 watt power supply