Which partitions can I delete?

BunnyJ said:

If it works it works.. what's the harm??

That is NOT the correct way to wire your hard drives. In some cases could even slow access to C drive down a bit. Read any instructions on how to properly install your hard drives sometime Jeff....

NavyLCDR said:

@OldMike65 apparently has CDO. It's like OCD but in alphabetical order, like it should be.

Wrong...its CDE in this case...

OldMike65 said:

That is NOT the correct way to wire your hard drives. In some cases could even slow access to C drive down a bit. Read any instructions on how to properly install your hard drives sometime Jeff....

Mike.. get a grip. I've been doing this for a very long time.
Save your time.. it works.. that's all that matters.

Really.. some people.

BunnyJ said:

Mike.. get a grip. I've been doing this for a very long time.
Save your time.. it works.. that's all that matters.

Really.. some people.

Hey it was you that made the comment!!!! I've been doing this a LONG TIME too sir. The way I suggested is the proper way to setup ANY hard drive. I don't really care if you don't follow the correct procedure ....user has a right to know the correct way. Then its their choice.

OldMike65 said:

Hey it was you that made the comment!!!! I've been doing this a LONG TIME too sir. The way I suggested is the proper way to setup ANY hard drive. I don't really care if you don't follow the correct procedure ....user has a right to know the correct way. Then its their choice.

It really doesn't matter... but have it your way.

Not that I have extensive experience in this specific context, but I thought all that mattered given a choice of SATA ports was that, if the ports had different speed capabilities, you choose a port for your device that gets the device up to its potential. Example, if you have 2 x 3 Gb/s ports and 2 x 6 Gb/s ports and you buy a SATA III SSD, make sure you hook it up to a 6 GB/s port.

Is there more to it than that?

Word Man said:

Not that I have extensive experience in this specific context, but I thought all that mattered given a choice of SATA ports was that, if the ports had different speed capabilities, you choose a port for your device that gets the device up to its potential. Example, if you have 2 x 3 GB/s ports and 2 x 6 GB/s ports and you buy a SATA III SSD, make sure you hook it up to a 6 GB/s port.

Is there more to it than that?

From all the reading I've done.. no. That's about it. Match the speed of the port currently with the drive speed and your set.
But most if not all modern MB's use SATIII now

BunnyJ said:

From all the reading I've done.. no. That's about it. Match the speed of the port currently with the drive speed and your set.
But most if not all modern MB's use SATIII now

OK, sounds right. But, not being an expert on that, I'm all ears... guess really we ought to hear from OP before this thread goes down the proverbial rabbit hole.

(yeah, corrected my speed units in prior post from GB/s to Gb/s, just so...)

Word Man said:

OK, sounds right. But, not being an expert on that, I'm all ears... guess really we ought to hear from OP before this thread goes down the proverbial rabbit hole.

(yeah, corrected my speed units in prior post from GB/s to Gb/s, just so...)

I've had my PC set up with the c in the 1 and 0 SATA and I noticed no difference in speed.
I'll try it again tomorrow morning and report back but I don't expect to see any real difference.

The only issue I can see is if someone does a clean instillation and the forget that their data is assigned to 0
and they delete that drive.

It can happen..

The only issue that I can see if someone does a clea