How To Install a Second SSD into Your PC

So you're running out of storage space on your  computer don't worry it happens to us all in this   video I’m going to show you how to install your  brand new SSD into your computer then after that   I’m going to show you how to activate  your brand new SSD within windows because   if you don't you never see this then afterwards  I’m going to show you how to format that drive   how to create a partition how to give it a drive  letter and then how to name it whatever you want   to name it then after that easy enough you can  go ahead copy all your files folders music videos   pictures and everything right onto this drive you  can even make it your new gaming drive but anyway   let's get to it so I’m going to show you this  process first outside of a computer because inside   of a computer you're kind of cramped and it might  be a little overwhelming to work in such a tight   space to make it easier we're going to go about  it right here and then I’ll show you back in the   computer so first off we're going to grab our SSD  and I do want to mention the entire process we're   going to be using on this SSD is going to be the  same on a mechanical hard drive a mechanical hard   drive like the SSD has SATA power and SATA data  same thing just a lot bigger and slower anyway so   like the mechanical drive you'll see there is  the SATA data connection looks like a little   l and then a SATA power connection it also looks  like a little l okay so then we're going to grab   our SATA cable don't worry if you don't have  one immediately typically they come inside of   the motherboard box if you built the system or had  someone build it for you but if you didn't I’ll go   ahead and have links down below where you can pick  one up they're pretty cheap too so with this l   right over here for the SATA data connection we're  just going to grab the SATA cable which has that   same SATA l connection right over here so we're  just going to go ahead and join that right here and you might even hear a click you don't need to  but you may okay so easy enough right there's one   more or two more actually so then we're going to  need to attach the other SATA side of the cable to your motherboard right over here the SATA  ports there's six right over here one two three   four five six they're not always going to be right  here on the edge of the board sometimes they'll be   right over here and sometimes they'll be flat  rather than this 90° angle so just remember   that little l is going to be right here  as well so then we'll just grab that cable plug it in and now we have the data portion  of the drive connected so now I’m going to   leave that connected because now that we have the  data portion connected we're going to connect the   power connection this is going to come from your  power supply your power supply should already have   these connections if not I’ll also go ahead and  link down below additional adapters maybe you   only have one of these on your power supply the  adapter will give you the ability to plug into   here to branch out to two others or one other  or if you only have Molex this is sat up power   and this is Molex see the difference there  Molex is an older power connection the SATA   power is newer now if you don't have SATA power  you only have Molex I’ll also link down below   a Molex connector that goes from a single Molex  out to two SATA powers okay so like the same way   we did right over here for the SATA data portion  we're going to go ahead and connect the SATA power right here easy enough right so essentially  we're ready to go I’m going to show you   connecting it inside of the computer actually  installing it in the computer and then we're   going to go activating it now depending on your  computer the power supply is either going to be on   the bottom or the very top mine just happens to be  at the bottom so make sure you go ahead and just   flick the power switch off to make sure that if  it is connected while you're connecting the SSD   the power doesn't automatically come back on  so that's just a safeguard the open side of a   computer this is kind of the reason why I  showed you on the motherboard alone on an   entire computer it could be a little challenging  now on some motherboards the connection will be   down here easy enough with nothing in the  way but on this particular motherboard   it's along the side so the video card is in the  way so I’m going to go ahead and move the video   card real quick now before we touch anything in  this computer make sure to go ahead and ground   yourself I don't mean punish yourself and go  in the corner I mean touch the computer steal   portions of the computer in case you have any  ESD or electrostatic discharge to go ahead and   discharge that on the case you don't want  to ruin other components inside of your pc and remember the computer is unplugged now we can  just pull this out okay so now we can see right   over here with that video card removed now we have  access to that easy enough you see that little   metal portion that we had before that actually  made that clicking sound locking the drive we have   that right over here and then remember that little  l so now we'll just go ahead and plug that in it clicks letting you know it's in place   and now we can use the other end to plug  into our SSD before I do that I’m going   to go ahead and plug the video card back  in and I’ll come back to you in one second okay now coming around to the  back we'll go ahead remove   these screws from the rear panel now there's  going to be another one along the top and then on this particular  case there'll be another panel   blocking access I’ll go ahead and remove that for  now there are three trillion different types of   cases so I could only show you in my particular  case how it is your case is going to be different   if you want to know exactly for your case you're  going to have to look at the case manual but this   will give you a general understanding of how to  physically install the SSD now if you remember we   connected that SATA cable I just ran it along the  bottom here out to the back so it's the same cable   and then remember how when we had the motherboard  outside of the case we had a SATA power connection   that's this one right over here so set a power  and SATA data now in this particular case   there is a tray we can go ahead and attach the  SSD to the tray so go ahead just put it right   over here and then we're going to go ahead and  align the screw holes with the holes on the tray and then we'll just go ahead screw that  in now we're going to need to do that   for the other three as well but since I  showed you the first and it is that easy   I’ll go ahead and do the rest  off camera and now in this case   there's going to be these little anchors right  over here and they're going to fall into these two   holes so I’ll just move this cable and I’ll slide  those two little anchors right into those holes and then I’ll go ahead and screw that tray in   okay so the drive is there and now because  we have the drive situated and I’ve shown you   how to connect them you know you match  the l to the l we'll just go ahead and plug that in right over here set a power connected and now set a data right  over here and everything is connected and now   zooming you out so you can see just how  complicated it looks on the back but how easy   it was to install that SSD so now I’m going  to go ahead and put this side panel back on now the other side panel and now we have two hidden SSD we just  installed one of the two so let's go ahead and   connect this all up and let's install it  within windows so let's go ahead turn around all right so now that we're in windows we're  going to do like we mentioned before we're   going to go ahead and initialize the disk  and then go ahead and provide a drive letter   and then also format it so that we can actually  utilize the disk if we click on file explorer   and then this pc you'll see we have the  c the e the f and then a network drive   here but none of these are empty that's  because we haven't initialized the disk   just yet so we'll just go ahead and close this  and now we'll go ahead and right click on the   start button this is going to be the same  in 10 that it is for 11. just a different   place for the start button we'll right click  on the start button then click disk management and now initialize disk pops up and then it  shows select disk this zero now there is GPT   and MBR they're both good but MBR will not allow  partitions larger than two terabytes and GPT will   GPT is newer so that'll accept any drive so we'll  go ahead and leave GPT selected and click ok here   you'll notice that went from offline to online but  still up here we still don't see that empty drive   so we'll see right along here unallocated  disk 465.75 Gig’s that's that 500 gig western   digital drive that we just installed so all we  do here now that this is online is we right click   on unallocated select new simple volume under the  new simple volume wizard we'll click next we can   lower the size here to create partitions but  I’m going to keep it easy if you'd like go ahead   comment down below if you want to see something on  partitions though I don't recommend them anymore   but anyway we'll go ahead and click next here we  can select whatever drive letter we'd like to give   it I recommend staying away from A and B but D, G,  H, I, all the way down nothing that you're using   already is here I’ll go ahead and select something  off the wall so that you can see it I’ll select p   then we'll see assign the following drive letter  we can also mount in the following empty NTFS   folder and do not assign a drive letter or drive  path we'll keep it under assign the following   drive letter and we'll click next then here we  get to select the file system type NTFS is perfect   that's what our c drive is that is what the rest  of the drives in our system are formatted as so   we'll select NTFS default allocation unit size  is fine and then the volume label so if we went   ahead and click next it'll be called new volume  so I’m going to name this this is my new wd 500   blue and then I highly suggest keeping perform  quick format on because if not this can take hours   this is only going to take a few seconds then  we'll click next and finish now that's it I   didn't even get to tell you what was going to  happen so we've initialized the disk and now   we've created that partition and now we have the  drive so if I close everything like we did before and I go back to this pc like I did before   and scroll down you'll see c e f and now the p  drive that this is my new wd 500 blue so then   this is a brand new empty drive so if you wanted  to we'll come over here to this pc prior to   making this video I copied over a ton of files  videos over to my c drive to make it look full   437 so what I’ll do is I’ll right click I’ll  cut come back over here and then I’ll paste this so now that's copying all of the data over from  my c drive over to my p drive now just know   that you can't simply copy or move a program  from your c drive to your p drive or whatever   drive you decide to name it you can copy over  documents or move over documents pictures videos   loose files like that downloads all that stuff  programs that's going to be a little bit different   you're going to need to typically uninstall the  program and reinstall it on the other drive if you   want to move that program over to your new drive  steam epic and all those other gaming clients   they're going to work the same way now there's  different types of methods to more easily move   them rather than have to uninstalled and reinstall  we're not going to go over that in this video but   there are several methods to do that as well I  want to try to keep this friendly for everybody   so in this video I’ve walked you through how to  connect your SSD to your motherboard and how to   connect your SSD to your power supply after that  we went ahead and I showed you how to install your   physical SSD into your computer case mind you  it's going to be different on every single case   because there's a trillion different types of  cases but I wanted to give you just a little   information on how to do that if anything for a  case like that and then after that I showed you   how to boot into windows and then initialize  your disk and then partition it so that that   way you had one large partition to copy over  all of your files and your programs so hopefully   I’ve helped you out in that if you have any  questions comments or concerns leave them down   below I reply to all of them if I’ve helped  you please consider liking and subscribing   it helps me out a ton that way I can keep bringing  you videos like this now on the screen as well   we're going to have two videos listed for  you in case you want to learn how to install   windows on them right up here I have how to  install windows on an SSD exactly like the one   we just installed and then right below that how to  install windows on an M.2 SSD two different types   of SSD’s one faster than the other but either  way it'll get the point across and then this   one tops it off with showing you how to install  a second disk as storage so thanks again for   stopping by and I hope to catch you on my next  one Iggy with ThisBytesForYou out see you guys

Channel: ThisBytesForYou

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Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 28 2022