How to Add a SATA SSD - Full Tutorial 

Ordered an SSD, it didn't work, checked the connections twice and then thrice. Nothing was working. After an hour, I decided to watch this video as it was taunting me on the Google search page. Of all things, for it to have been because the other side of the cable wasn't plugged in... 😂 It works now, and you helped with confusion of initializing and allocating, you get a thumbs up and a sincere heart felt thank you 😊

Super simple to follow on. I just completed building my very 1st PC in over a decade since my last one. Figuring out how to add an additional SSD through your video really saved the amount of time trying to understand. Cheers!

I've had an SSD for almost a year now, never could get it installed. Thanks for the simple and easy to follow video. Huge help.

Just got an SSD today and this tutorial really helped with the installation and setup for it, thanks for the help and keep making videos like that that can help people that are doing this for the first time.

I set up this SSD SPECIFICALLY to install steam games onto, so that extra part in the end just set me up for everything I needed! Thank you so much!

Dude, I just bought this same PC, case and all, and I had no idea how to hook up my GPU. This video not only helped me figure out how to install 2.5ssd, but also how to get my GPU going! Thank you!

You just saved my day! I was about to return my SSD... Had no idea I had to allocate and isntall and all those things! You, Sir, deserve more likes! Thanks a lot for this video!

Thanks man I struggled with my Sata for hours thinking it was the power cable or something but with your help I managed to finaly install it. Thanks again for doing a full guide!

This was so clutch man…I was in a never ending cycle of clearing up 200gb of space by uploading to my cloud drive to work on 2 videos at a time. Finally just installed an additional 2TB SSD thanks to this video

I was all confident till I realized I needed that SATA cable

Had no idea I was supposed to format and stuff was wondering why it didn't show up thought i did something wrong got yourself a sub simple and to the point

It was probably a bummer to see your footage out of focus, but you did a good job overlaying the images of the items. Thanks for the help.

i just bought a pc from skytech and now you guys helping me again install the ssd i just bought . amazing pc and amazing help from this video i will recommend you guys to anyone asks

FINALLY FOUND A RU-vidR THAT MAKES THIS KIND OF THINGS SO SIMPLE AND EASY!! THANKYOU

A simple and well made video was very helpful. Thanks for showing every part of the process definitely saved me some frustration in trying to initialize

So I just got a new SATA SSD and this video was just the thing I needed Thank you very much

Thanks for the help! Couldn't have done it without the tutorial!

This was the best tech walkthrough video I've ever seen! It was very easy to follow, thank you so much :)

Dude, you made the easiest video ever to follow! Thankyou!! Five stars all the way!

This was definitely needed. I have a new pc coming from you guys and wanted to add memory. This is will be my reference.

Thank you very much for this tutorial, I just installed my SSD

simple n straight to the point

This is probably the best guide i've ever seen. Wish you the best

This helped me understand something I hadn’t yet. Thanks

this is the only video of the 6 ive watched that helped me thank you

Thank you so much for this beautiful tutorial! Just stepped out to get my SSD and installed it stress free :)

This was a goated instruction video. You told us everything including how to install onto steam.

Thank you, stuff like this is what stumps us newbee's and people like you and your team that bail us out! Thanks again!

Excellent video, very comprehensive and covers all the details you might need. Very well made, got my new drive installed and working after forgetting how I did it years ago.

Thank you so much dude, im looking to buy a second drive and saw someone online mention the disk management software which made me lose confidence and be affraid it wasnt going to work, now i have my confidence back!

Everything out of focus 😩😩😩😩🤬

this was great thank you! doing an ssd upgrade on my old desktop along with more ram

Thank you for the video, very easy to understand and helpful!

Thank you! This video was really helpful

Thanks Man, It was very helpful

Great video and guide. Too bad that 60% was out of focus but still managed to understand. Thanks.

thank you, your explanation helped me

Had no idea it was this simple. I was getting ready to contact the company I bought my prebuilt from for help. I thought those four holes in the case were for some kind of SSD holder that they forgot to send along with the PC lol thanks a lot for this guide.

very helpful, thank you. I know I can build a computer on my own but the thought of installing anything or building new still makes me nervous hahaha

Nice video Simple, fast and easy to follow!

Thank you! So helpful for a Mum who knows nothing about pcs!

You made it simple. Thank you.

Exactly what I needed, thank you so much.

Thanks pal, very helpful. This video was exactly what I was needing.

Was very helpful, thank you very much. 😊

thanks for this, was a big help.

Thank you. You saved what could have been a very bad day for me.

Thank you. Just what I needed. 👍🏽👍🏽

Great tutorial helped a lot.

SIR YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! THANK YOUUUUU!

Amazing found out that in the process of building my pc 2 years ago me and my dad never activated the 2T hard drive either. So now I have 4T of free space to use up.

This was super helpful. Thank you!

Really helpful, I was wondering wtf was a SATA cable and what it was for! And yes, I just built my first PC so boo hoo if I didn't know wth SATA was xD

this helped very much, lots of thank 👍🔥

Thanks forgot about drive allocation. It's always the little things that get you.

thank you sir ... excellent work ... stay well

So helpful, thank you!!

KEEP IT UP zach! Thanks for the full details! Really loved it ❤

It worked!!! Thank you so much!!!

Great focus 🥸👍🏻

Nice To Follow. thanks for you brother.

I need a friend like you to geek out on technology.

Thanks... It was very helpful

amazing tutorial, ty

ty very much helpful brother

bro i remember with my first pc build I just had the SATA SSD just hang there with the cable attached to the first port on the mobo I saw

*virtual hug* thank you so much!!

My HDD broke and this is absolutely helpful (luckily I don't think I even put anything on the HDD)

Thank you, God bless you 🙏🏾

thankyou so much brooooo

this was soo helpfull when i first installed it the ram was acting up and then the graphics card was acting up i dont know why but ya but this was helpfull and my pc is acting good now

Thank you for the help ❤

Thank you so much brother 🙏

Very useful thanks

Thank you so much

Awesome thanks

Great video made installing my new ssd super easy 10/10

Thanks Zach It was definitely helful. You're awesome bro! Something that would be even more helpful would be if you could please do a similar video on this channel showing us steps in how exactly you setup your custom MSIAfterburner for the main channel videos. Also, it looks like on the desktop in this video, you have Afterburner and then a separate instance of it. I'm assuming you simply click that seperate instance marked 'setup' and it automatically sets it to how you want it so you don't have to do it manually set it up every single video. I really would appreciate seeing how you do that as well. thanks! peace.

Isnt tht the toasty bros studio?

Thank bro

Thankyou bruh

I have a question I can’t see my space available in settings after all this steps and tips ?

i’ll leave a like for the activate drive part. but fix that camera 🎥

thanks bro you help

Thank you very much

Thanks bro, u saved my life

Broo . Aware of ur camera. Its soo out of focus

I just installed one of those, it was a 1tb SSD via SATA (same as in the video). Once it fills to about 90gb it starts running like a bag of sh1t, takes almost an hour to transfer 1gb of data to it.

Mine isn't registering the presence of the ssd. Should I restart my computer?

For people seen this use the straight sata cause the corner one has to go from the inside position and we don't want to break anything trying 😅, other than that great help bro

Thanku ❤

Hey, the cble that goes to the power supply, I don't have one of those. Where can I find one for my Samsung SSD. I have the Sata Cable for my mother board but no cable from my power supply

thanks, so we need to jus put tthe sata cable and power supply cable and also if its unread (because nvme or something), put them to other slot

What happened to the toasty bros? 💀 (this is a joke btw)

I have my hard drive with all my games on it from my last pc. Can I connect the HD to my new pc with that?

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Liked/Subsribed Thank you!

AWesome thx

Very helpful. Thank you. Only question, if I keep some saved games on the stock drive, do I need to transfer that data to the new drive or will the computer understand where the data is if I just fire something up

What if i wanna add one that already has stuff like pictures and games on it and i wanna keep them? Do i unclick format or how do i go about that?