Joining 2 SSD drives.

[Dutch1]

I have two SSD drives in my home built PC. Can I merge them to act as one drive. Both are 250 GB drives. 

 

 

 

Thanks, Bob McDuff

[scottb613]

Hi Bob,

Usually there are two ways you can do it:

• Using the built in Windows Disk Manager
• Using hardware RAID built into your motherboard

The first you setup in the OS - here's a link:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-one-large-volume-using-multiple-hard-drives-windows-10

The second is hardware based - your MOBO if it has RAID - usually has a utility outside of the OS that you access on boot up... It's a little more complicated but a better method - it's also unique to the mobo maker - you would have to check your documentation...

For our needs here - probably either would be fine...

Best of luck...

Regards,
Scott

 

[Dutch1]

Thanks Scott, Ya i'm running out of space on my P3D drive. On one of  the SSD is my old FSX, the other P3D. Both are dedicated to just the sims. I have another SSD for my operating system.I will just delete the FSX one, I don't use that anymore. I'll check into my MB dtails on how to do it...Thanks again!!!

 

[GB014934]

For solution 1 - Called Storage Spaces - please fully backup the data from your P3D drive before creating a space. The process of creating a space destroys the data on the drives. During creation give the space the same letter as the P3D drive. Afterwards copy the backed up P3D data back to the new space. Once a space is created disks can be added as needed. Individual drives within a space do not have to be the same size. You can add a normal hard drive to a space but I don't know how any defrag software would deal with a mixture.  I have done this with 2 SSDs, one is a SATA drive and the other is NVMe storage neither of which should be defragged.

I suspect that using solution 2 - RAID setup - may give better overall performance but I personally found it easier to go for solution 1.

[JimmiG]

The only drawback with this is that Trim won't work. Also there's some slight CPU overhead since it's a software solution. But it's a lot more convenient than having a bunch of tiny 120 - 240 GB SSD's that you can't do anything useful with on their own.