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> Those are the 4 seconds your BIOS spends detecting and enumerating the extra drive.
> This will increase as you add drives. Some BIOSes might have a way to minimize this
> time, maybe by telling it which drives are bootable and which drives aren't. I have 4
> drives, two of which are bootable, but I haven't tried to tweak this on mine.
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> I'd keep the drive installed and use it for music, movies and other stuff that don't
> need to load fast or that don't benefit (a lot) from faster loading times.
>
> My OS is on a 120GB SSD, with +50GB still free. I store almost everything on a
> second, mechanical drive, even my email, Steam and some apps that I think load fast
> enough, or that I rarely use. I keep another mechanical drive just for multitrack
> recording.
>
> S
Oh, I intend to keep the 2TB installed. Games, videos, and more require the space and I would rather not offload it all to an external drive. Besides, I need that space back for backups. Now that I have finished (well, the file moving is still going on- the current folder has been at it for almost a day and isn't even halfway done- over 700,000 files) I will be ghosting the new drive then upgrading to Win 10. I also have to fix all the game and emulation start menu shortcuts to point to the new drive letter.
By the way, Reflect did an outstanding job- it even copied over the recovery partition which I wasn't aware at first that I had until I looked at the drive in disk management. I now add my own experience to the recommendations given here.
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