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I recently bought two 128GB SSDs that I'm planning on adding (RAID 0) to a system I currently have on a 1TB HDD. I'm hoping to redo the disk space such that the SSDs act as the boot drive (only other items would be things I install there explicitly) while the majority of my system is on the HDD - documents, media, program files. Something like this:

SSD = [ OS | Explicitly placed programs]
HDD = [ Program Files | Media | Documents | etc]

I have an external drive capable of holding all the data I want to save, so the backup isn't too much of a concern.

What I'm worried about is how I should go about doing this - do I need to do a clean install on the SSDs, reformat the HDD, move things like Program Files/Users to the HDD, and then restore data (not full programs but things like saves)?

Should I be using one of the regedit hacks I've seen around to change the default install directories instead of moving program files and users? Should I have the actual folders on the HDD and symlinks on the SSD? Or is there a better solution?

Do I need to disconnect my HDD while doing the clean Windows install?

thegrinner
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Raid 0 - don't yet. It is way too unstable if you want TRIM support. Single SSD is more than enough for a boot/system disk.

Copy the current system partition to it - I have used DriveImageXML with great success and it is free. What you do is set the SSD as bootable, set from bios the SATA in AHCI mode, and then just boot once into safe mode, so windows can update its drivers.

Then run as admin "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" if zero - you have trim working and you are good to go.

D.Iankov
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