Please help me properly install my new SSD storage drive

[Aragorn]

@Persephone

I believe that all I need to do is connect the new storage disk to my motherboard and boot up. At that point my disk should appear and I can format it with kde partition manager. I would like to format the new disk btrfs because of the compression. Will that be a problem since my primary SSD is ext4?

No, it’ll be a separate filesystem, so I don’t see how this could be a problem.

@Persephone

Would it make sense to move the swap file from the old to the new SSD?

Not really. Besides, there are special things to take into consideration for creating a swap file on btrfs.

What you could do is create a separate swap partition on the new SSD if you think it would be faster.

Also, please take a look at the following tutorials…

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