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Hot Swap and fitting second Hard Drive
Hi
I just received my purchased MEDION AKOYA P5218 F - Intel Core i5-6400, 2,7GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, WLAN, Windows 10 Desktop computer.
Since I had recently just bought a WD 1TB Black Hard Drive I wanted to fit this inside.
Although there appears to be a tiny cramped space for a second Hard Drive (have marked the place where I think it should go? and use any free electric cable in that bundle?) I was unable to see anywhere to plug the cable into the motherboard.
I bought this computer as replacement to my i3 3220 which was no longer good enough for my multimedia software; I did not have a lot of money over, but wanted an i5, so this was my compromise (but extremely wary - Medion!!). I did read it had a "Hot Swap" but did not really understand what this was (other than you could easily swap drives):
Hot-swap mobile rack - Swap hard drives quickly and easily – even while the PC is running. Perfect for data backups, data exchange and alternative operating systems.
http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/multim...ed-description
But fully understand I did not!
Anyway - and I am just guessing here - it looks like the Hot Swap is using the motherboard socket for a possible second Hard Drive. And there is no other free socket.
So - guessing again - if I have understand correctly from Google searches - the Hot Swap is not intended to be used as a second internal Hard Drive ? Or have I understood wrong? Can it be used for my second Hard Drive?
Really confused here about this!!! SO HELP!
If not I guess I will have to unplug the Hot Swap and use this to plug my second Hard Drive?
ANOTHER but related question:
The built in Hard Drive looks to be a 1 TB WD Blue
The Hard Drive I want to build in is a 1 TB WD Black
As far as I can tell the Black is a better drive than the Blue (was certainly more expensive)
So should I move the system (if I am capable of doing this easy - have no experience and not that computer technical) from the Blue to the Black? (does it bring significant performance or none?)
Or just leave it as it is?
AND - guessing again - I figure I might be able to use this Hot Swap to somehow move my system over to the black (only if it is better for system performance?) - clone/copy - or? have never used such a thing (Hot Swap) before so unsure about this?
Really stuck here on this Hot Swap be glad of speedy help - and many thanks