Solve : Can I place 2 HDD and 1 SSD in one computer?

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Answer» Can I PLACE themAs long as your system has room for 3 hd's, sure Quote from: Allan on July 20, 2018, 05:10:42 AM As long as your system has room for 3 hd's, sure Your talking about motherboard?I'm talking about slots. You need to have room to mount the drives unless you MEAN external drives, in which case all you need are usb PORTS. As for the motherboard, you can always add 3x data & power cables if needed.There are typically 3 sizes of internal DRIVE bays in your average computer case: 5.25", 3.5", and 2.5". The 5.25" slot(s) is mainly used for disk drives and other peripherals, normally not hard drives, plus you won't see this slots available on smaller cases. 3.5" is ALMOST entirely used exclusively by physical spinning disk Hard Drives. If you have two of these then you can fit two HDDs in your computer. 2.5" these days are typically used by SATA SSDs, but you can also buy HDDs at this size. If you have one 2.5" slot then you can fit your SSD. This is all assuming your HDDs are 3.5 inch variants and the SSD is SATA 2.5 inch. The other issue is ports. Most people use SATA 3 these days, and most motherboards have at least 4 of them. If you are using an M.2 SSD, then you will need to make sure your motherboard has an M.2 slot and that it can fit the length of the drive. The length can vary from 30mm (2230) to 110mm (22110). The first two numbers means the width (most are 22mm so you don't have to worry about that) and the remaining numbers is the length in millimeters. Motherboards will advertise the maximum length and will support all standard sizes below it. Most M.2 SSDs I've encountered are of the 2280 variety.

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Can I PLACE themAs long as your system has room for 3 hd's, sure Quote from: Allan on July 20, 2018, 05:10:42 AM

As long as your system has room for 3 hd's, sure

Your talking about motherboard?I'm talking about slots. You need to have room to mount the drives unless you MEAN external drives, in which case all you need are usb PORTS. As for the motherboard, you can always add 3x data & power cables if needed.There are typically 3 sizes of internal DRIVE bays in your average computer case: 5.25", 3.5", and 2.5". The 5.25" slot(s) is mainly used for disk drives and other peripherals, normally not hard drives, plus you won't see this slots available on smaller cases. 3.5" is ALMOST entirely used exclusively by physical spinning disk Hard Drives. If you have two of these then you can fit two HDDs in your computer. 2.5" these days are typically used by SATA SSDs, but you can also buy HDDs at this size. If you have one 2.5" slot then you can fit your SSD.

This is all assuming your HDDs are 3.5 inch variants and the SSD is SATA 2.5 inch.

The other issue is ports. Most people use SATA 3 these days, and most motherboards have at least 4 of them. If you are using an M.2 SSD, then you will need to make sure your motherboard has an M.2 slot and that it can fit the length of the drive. The length can vary from 30mm (2230) to 110mm (22110). The first two numbers means the width (most are 22mm so you don't have to worry about that) and the remaining numbers is the length in millimeters. Motherboards will advertise the maximum length and will support all standard sizes below it. Most M.2 SSDs I've encountered are of the 2280 variety.

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