follow up question: is my motherboard capable of handling two hard drives? I've googled it & can't find anything confirming whether it can or not https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z270-GAMING-PRO-CARBON.html

answered I have a PC that I want to eventually get a SSD and a terabyte snaildrive with the next stimulus & wipe & reinstall the OS onto the SSD, but if I can buy a terabyte snaildrive that's straight up better than what I already have I wanna just wipe my computer now & put the OS on the new one.

someone is selling this for $5 in my area https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=WDC%20WD10EAVS. This is what I already have in my PC https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=SEAGATE%20ST3500418AS

For some reason the format for the specs on this site are completely different so my brain cant figure; is the new hard drive an upgrade from the old one (aside from just being better size)? Should I buy the cheap bigdrive and just wait to get a SSD to put the OS onto & wait to wipe or is the new drive just a straight up upgrade & I should just get it & put the OS onto that right away?

  • VHS [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    for $5, though, it is really cheap for some extra storage.

    • deshara218 [any]
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      4 years ago

      thats why im not passing it up. Even if it turns out my motherboard doesn't have slots for 2 hard drives I'd still want to switch to this while I wait to afford a terabyte SSD -- I jsut cant do 500 gigs anymore lol