Does the 128gb SSD x2 show up as 2 separate partitions in win8? If so, how much space is left on the C: partition after win8?
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Yes, it is partitioned as 2 128GB partitions OS (C:) and DATA (D:) There is some typical bloatware on the C: partition that you can remove to free space. D: partition is clear.With Office 2010 and a couple other applications installed I have 57 GB free on C:
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Yes it does. C: has 95gig total space and d has 121. currently i have 2 of these laptops and both have about 50% of C left after all my installs and setup.
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I buy the normal product (I mean the MyDigitalSSD SC2 Super Cache 2 42mm SATA III 6G M.2 NGFF M2 SSD Solid State Drive (128GB)) but I installed it as a normal HDD Disk, no as cache disk. I install the Windows 7x64 bits and run perfect! rapid! no crashes!
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Actually, disregard my previous response. I had this drive, but it was a 2TB model, not 3TB. There's a limit of 2.19TB for older Windows version (including Win 7) unless you have hardware that supports GPT partitioning, which I honestly don't know much about at this time. I'd recommend going with a 2TB version to be on the safe side.
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Strange. When it came in, I found the drive as being alone and empty. I partitionned it in three separate parts for work purposes, but it's supposed to be here! You should contact MSI!
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Hey, there is nothing installed in the hdd so win8 is installed on the ssd.
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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.
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It came with only 1x 128 SSD. I returned this computer as fast as I could though. It was just completely horrendous. Don't know if that helps you, but just fair warning from my experience.
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Mine came with two physical SSD drives and one physical hard drive. They split the hard drive into two logical drives. So you start out with 4 logical drives. I logically combined the two SSD drives into one and removed the partitioning of the hard drive (folk on the ASUS forum told me how to do that). For that matter, I replaced the original 5400 rpm hard drive with a snappier 7200 rpm drive. So at this time my machine has only two logical drives - I like it better that way. HTH
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120 Gb SSD (Solid State Drive) as main drive with 750 Gb HDD (Hard Disk Drive) as secondary drive
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Hello. It will vary. You should probably see about 230GB usable remaining space give or take after the install of Windows 7.
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Out of the box only 72.4GB of the 128GB SDD are free. (from a review on this product page)
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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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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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I concur with what Augustin posted. As to the partition on the hard drive, the reasoning for it was supposedly to keep the Vista install pristine on its own partition. The better way to have done it would have been to make it the D partition. But go figure why they did it the way they did it without any documentation. But other than that and a few other minor issues this is a great laptop. :)
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to you it looks like 1 drive. The firmware on the drive uses the ssd for the most active files. you don't control that. format the partition and load your os. i think you will like it! I am really very happy with the performance; it is very smooth and very consistent.
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The short answer is yes. My C drive shows 95.3 GB and the D drive shows 121 GB.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.