How difficult is it to add a SDD drive to this model? Can anyone point me to directions for how to do so. Any risks in damaging computer by doing so?
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call Samsung these people are very helpful, even more so than you can believe
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My experience is all the 15" laptops I come across support a second bay in the disk drive location, but you have to find a special 3rd party insert for it. I'm tempted to put BACK in the default HD because I upgrade to a SSD, but even a 240g drive is pretty tiny.
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hi... can u explain it clearly . do u have problem installing d drives ???? / or it doesnt work properly with the VLC /Games ext ?????/
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I can use it as an E: drive, just cant make it work as a C: drive. The problem is with the Partition style, which u can find under Disk Management and by going to the C: drive Disk Device Properties....if it says it is a Partition style: GUID Partition Table (GPT), then this is NOT the drive for you if u want to make it a bootable C: drive. Kingston will just tell you to go pound sand or they will give you a refund if you want to jump thru ALL of their hoops. I spent DAYS with the Kingston Technical Dept just to find out this little bit of trivia...BTW, if you are running Windows 8 then get the 8.1 upgrade...it is free and fixes several problems.
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This is a barebone PC which you have to add storage device by yourself. You can either add SSD or HDD, and the choice is your's. Hope this helps.
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There are screw holes available on the normal HDD mounting brackets. There is also a place on the MB mounting tray to install a SDD.
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Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
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not all drives are supported,recommend downloading the manual.I followed neweggs "to manufactures site" to get it.
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I'm running it with a 4 TB drive right now. Works great. I'm running Linux. It all just worked "out of the box" without needing drivers, Disk Manager, patches, or anything like that. You just have to remember to format your drive with "gpt" partition table, because the default ("msdos") partition table maxed out at 2 TB and will no longer work.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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Hey, I found really good instructions online.. It's already formatted in fat32 but it needs to be set up on a laptop first.. After you do the setup you just plug and play. It's been a great storage device so far.. Feel free to get back to me.. Oh yeah, it was on ehow.
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I just added an SSD in the m2 slot and used imaging software to clone the drive. In my experience with Windows 8, it actually stores the Windows 8 key in the BIOS, so it will install with the correct key by itself (only with computers shipped with Windows 8).
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The utility software? That can be found on the Adata web site. Shouldn't need anything else to make the drive work, as long as you have a SATA port available.
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Hi. Do you know if you can add hard drive space? Like attach an external hard drive for more space?
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5 posts, quality looks good, but looks like you will have to get their bit drive, interesting on the installation, a little more complicated then anticipated. web site may have manual. i would look at that before investing
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I put in an SDD, then reformatted the drive that came preinstalled into a single partition (leaving the hidden partitions alone in case I need to restore later). After that, the drive shows up as 1.8TB, and it performs like a 5400RPM drive. That being said, I believe that in it's original configuration, it performed as an hybrid drive with 8GB of SSD, which greatly improved it's performance over a regular 5400RPM drive. Hope that helps some.
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How? I hooked up my portable hard drive and it did not work! Problem is, its NTSF and not FAT32 formatted. Tried to reformat, and no go there either.