Is the mSATA going to offer much of a performance difference if I am using SSDs already for the drives within the Drobo?
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Actually no. In fact Drobo states as such on their Web site. It does make a substantial difference with traditional hard drives.
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Yes, the mSATA SSD is SATA III. Regarding the brand, it could be A-DATA or other 1st tier brand. In MSI website they doesn't release such information.
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I'm using an Intel mSATA SSD - 40GB and 2x4GB Crucial 1600MHz SODIMM's. Most of the available mSATA models should just work, but the memory should be according to spec requirements.
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Over USB 3.0, it's reasonably fast. If you're doing a lot of post-processing work at a time on very large RAW files, you might be better served with a Thunderbolt external drive or even a Thunderbolt RAID0 (fastest but not redundant) or RAID10 (fast & redundant) system, and then using the Drobo as a backup device. Batch processing would also be faster on those. Just as an additional note: while I really love Drobo's simplicity when it comes to swapping new drives to expand storage, don't rely on it as your only copy of your data. I had an original Drobo Gen 1 that I used for almost five years as an external storage and backup device before it began to reboot randomly. Luckily I was able to retrieve most of the data on my Drobo before it stopped working entirely, but what I didn't may still be locked up on those drives - or not - I still haven't found a way to get to the data due to their non-standard RAID setup. Having said that - backups, especially offsite, are ALWAYS a good idea, no matter where you store the primary copies of your files.
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Yes, and the speed won't suffer. Even SATA III interface is over twice the speed of most hard drives (not SSD).
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Ps- I went with this product before my knowledge of pcie drives. I would have chosen that over this product and an ssd. If you can afford it I think your performance will be way better.
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External? If you mean esata or USB than no. As for an internal sata SSD, M.2's may cost more and could be suseptable to heat in poorly cooled cases. Depending on your motherboard, using the M.2 interface may disable from one to four sata ports and thus may limit the number of drives that can be installed. Check the motherboard's manual if you're concerned. Used as the boot debice, they're blazingly fast.
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I was unable to locate any specifications for the system you identified.Make sure motherboard has Sata 3Gps or 6Gps (faster)If you are adding the SSD make sure you have an extra SATA port, cable and a place to mount SSD.** If the drive is configured properly on a 6Gps port, there will be a very notable performance boost over any HDD, this SSD will outperform any 10,000 rpm drive.
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that depends on you mother board...raid x is raid x ....but sata3 is way faster then 1 or 2 ... then thers how meany drive you put in raid vs the max speed of you raid card what ever it is
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I would contact Dell directly or their online forum with this question. Remember you will be giving up 750 gigabytes of storage. Compare your performance with reviews of the Samsung from the Internet to be sure this drive will accomplish your intention. I use the free version of Sandra Lite to measure my performance... http://www.sisoftware.net/?d=&f;=downandbuy&l;=en&a;=
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if your desktop has a SATA port you're good. I would get this to run the OS/paging/scratch, and another drive to store your data on. SSD is pretty costly other-wise and this way you can still enjoy the performance gain while maintaining the capacity.
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Yes, the mSATA SSD is SATA III. Regarding the brand, it could be A-DATA or other 1st tier brand.In MSI website they doesn't release such information.
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Very unlikely unless you have a SATA to mSATA adapter which can cause data integrity issues
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Yes. You can. Once you install the mSATA into your adapter it behaves just like a regular SSD and you can put it in a docking station, usb adapter, whatever you want just as if you had an SSD. Bear in mind that the lack of a plastic enclosure, and therefore lack of mechanical guide, will make it necessary for you to guide the adapter for mating into the SATA connectors by hand. I hope that this helps.
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The drive will handle Windows 7 just fine. But it is a micro sata drive. Hence the Msata. It will not work in a sata drive slot.
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I haven't used the Muskin drive, however both use the same controller, I believe, and therefore their performance should be similar.
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There are many unknown factors regarding your question ... but it's a pretty safe bet that the answer is (NO). example : installing 2 SSD's in a striped RAID vs ANY HDD on the market would be a much better way to spend your $ to increase performance.95+ % of PC owners would never be able to tell the difference in 1333 and 3000mghz in a PC for personal use.Hope this helps...