Question on increasing storage via 2nd SSD

[Othniel327]

I have an HP Obelisk 875-1040st that's a few years old. I'm not quite ready to replace it, but want to upgrade the storage space for gaming needs. It came with a 512 GB SSD as the C drive and a 3 TB HDD as the secondary D drive. I have an open SSD2 slot that isn't currently being used and want to add a second SSD. Does it matter what size I pick to slot in there? I saw some old post that mentioned adding an identical size SSD and configuring them for RAID 0, but I am wondering if that's necessary. I am hoping I can just plug in a new, larger secondary SSD (call it the E drive) and install all my games onto it.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[banhien · Accepted solution]

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@Othniel327 wrote:

... Does it matter what size I pick to slot in there? I saw some old post that mentioned adding an identical size SSD and configuring them for RAID 0, but I am wondering if that's necessary...

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@Othniel327 

It is up to you, you can simply ADD a stand alone drive w/o a need to configure RAID 0. Due to its physical size, there are many standard 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD's around. I know some vendors now can squeeze up to 4TB drives to its physical size but I don't know how good/bad/ugly they are.

Regards.

[Othniel327]

Thank you!

I wasn't sure if it HAD to match or not.