How to Add an External Drive to your PC without Calling Samsung or Microsoft's Useless Customer Service

contrary to what you read on the internet, you don't need to load up your BIOS/boot settings, nor will the drive automatically appear in "Control Panel -> Disk Management"

Things you need

1. Compressed Air Can

2. Samsung 870 EVO SSD (or similar)

3. SATA cable

4. Available SATA port on your motherboard

Steps - hardware

1. Open your PC case and air out the dust from your computer (make sure you aren't blowing spider eggs all over your floor :D)

2. Locate the vacant SATA port on your mobo

3. Find a nice space for your SSD to sit (perhaps in the giant trays meant for Hard Drives)

4. Gently figure out how the SSD power cord is routed and connect it to your SSD (don't pull on the cable if it doesn't like being pulled, you will regret it)

5. Connect SATA cable to your SSD and mobo

Steps - recognizing your new drive

6. Control Panel -> Storage Spaces

7. Enable the Admin settings

8. Create a Storage Space (you can call it whatever letter you like (:D) lol)

9. Use NTFS

10. Do Simple (no resiliency) rather than two-way mirror; Simple requires one drive while two-way mirror would use a second drive to backup your data (we live dangerously)