# Install new SSD SATA Internal Drive

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881 "2025-09-09T19:57:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@sking](https://community.umbrel.com/u/sking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881/1 "2025-09-09T19:57:47Z")

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I’m trying to install a second internal drive and get Umbrel to recognize it. My current drive is a 2TB NVME drive and I just installed a 2TB M.2 SATA drive. I have Umbrel installed on a Mini GMKtec G3 PC. I’m not a Linux guru, sorry even though I’m on a Linux machine daily. Is there instructions someone can point me to?

Here is the output from lsblk.

umbrel@umbrel:~$ lsblk  
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS  
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk  
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk  
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /mnt/root/boot/efi  
│ /boot/efi  
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 9.6G 0 part /mnt/root  
│ /  
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 9.6G 0 part  
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1.8T 0 part /mnt/root/var/log  
/var/log  
/mnt/root/var/lib/systemd/timesync  
/var/lib/systemd/timesync  
/mnt/root/var/lib/docker  
/var/lib/docker  
/mnt/root/home  
/home  
/mnt/root/data  
/data

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![oconical](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/oconical/32/7451_2.png) [@oconical](https://community.umbrel.com/u/oconical)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 6:37am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881/2 "2025-09-10T06:37:58Z")

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it all depends on what you want to use it for

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**Author:** ![sking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@sking](https://community.umbrel.com/u/sking)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881/3 "2025-09-10T13:00:49Z")

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I would like to use it to store data for Plex, movies and TV shows and save my main NVME drive for Bitcoin Core blockchain data.

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**Author:** ![oconical](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/oconical/32/7451_2.png) [@oconical](https://community.umbrel.com/u/oconical)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881/4 "2025-09-12T06:46:28Z")

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ok, for simplicity, we make the Videos directory the mount point.

in the linux system you mount drives into empty folder.

Now there are several ways to do this, but I am going to show you the easy way to do this.  
Since you know your drive is sda by the lsblk command, we just need to set it up, partition and format, then add it permanently to the Videos directory :

```auto
sudo apt-get install parted -y 
sudo parted /dev/sda

```

then you will be in the (parted) program propmt, then you type:

```auto
mklabel gpt
mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

```

then press ctrl+c to exit parted, then label the partition:

```auto
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
sudo e2label /dev/sda1 "Videos"

```

then we edit the mounting table file with one of the editors and add the entry:

```auto
sudo nano /etc/fstab

```

under the last entry add:

```auto
LABEL="Videos" /home/umbrel/umbrel/home/Videos ext4 defaults 0 2

```

ctrl+o to save, press enter, ctrl+x to exit, then:

```auto
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
mount -a

```

now it should be in your Videos folder and it will be there after boot. You can tell that it mounted the drive in the by the command:

```auto
lsblk

```

which is going to look odd because there is 4 mount entries due to how they created this docker container.

in the Videos folder there is a folder you can delete called “lost+found” which is the trashcan folder for the drive that was made when it was formatted and is not used.

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**Author:** ![sking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@sking](https://community.umbrel.com/u/sking)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/install-new-ssd-sata-internal-drive/23881/5 "2025-09-14T11:09:33Z")

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Awesome, thanks!