How many mSATA slots does it have ? Does it have a second standard disk bay ? is there a difference between 889 model besides memory.
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There are no mSATA slots and two hard drive bays one of which is empty. The 889 comes with 3 mSATA slots and one hard drive bay.
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4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and... » Read More 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). « Show Less
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It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
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If you send a request to support at MSI they can forward a pic of this laptop with the bottom removed. They highlight the mounting areas where the new drives install. It uses msata drives for the space savings. They are about 1/3d the size of a cased SSD.
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It is a non-standard flash memory, not a standard mSATA. It can be accessed though.
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I assume you're referring to RAM, and the maximum capacity for this machine is 32 GB. I believe it has 4 slots each capable of holding an 8 GB card. If you're referring to HDD, that, too can be upgraded to whatever you see fit. I believe it can also support a secondary (or primary) SSD.
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Yes it has a second bay. The current hdd is installed to a msata connection second is just a sata.
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I ordered the reference number (59406648) and mine came with 2 GPUs. It also came with the MSATA M.2 slot to put a 128GB dedicated second SSD. No DVD drive.
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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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16GB max Ram w/ 2 available slots (mine currently has 2x4GB). It has an mSATA (chip ssd) drive slot (mine has 256GB) and also a standard 2.5" drive bay (mine has a 256GB SSD drive here for a total of 512GB across two drives.
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You dont generally, the 80GB mSATA solid state drive is used by the OS for caching purposes. Or it could be configured to have the OS only installed on it not sure though. Can Seller clarify?
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Several model variations are available. Some have 750 GB at 5400 RPM while some have 1 TB at 5400 RPM.
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One regular SATA Bay and two mSATA Slots for SSDs. mSATA is different than regular SATA however, so make sure you buy the correct drives if you choose to upgrade or add on... The regular SATA Bay is taken up by the drive from the factory.
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You can only go above 8GB if you do not use the mSATA drive. With an mSATA drive installed, it will only recognize 8GB max even if there is 16 GB installed.
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Yes, it's a 256GB mSATA SSD(plugs into one of the mini PCI-e slots. Not accessible from the main panel under the system.
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Mine has all four with the blue plastic that usually indicates usb3.0. A big boon that's not advertised is that there is a second drive bay, so you can add another hard drive or even a ssd. I have added an extra drive but it took quite a few minutes to recognize it. I haven't tried it but there seems to be empty ram bays as a well.
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Thanks John. I bought the machine with two 2.8 ghz, 2 gb ram 320 gb hard drive, superdrive, airport, etc. I plan on purchasing extra RAM online, maybe at B&H.; I will hook up external harddrives for more storage for the present, eventually getting more hard-drives. I don't really understand the whole RAID discussion. As for screens, after a lot of research, I went for the NEC 2080Wuxi2 with the software. I think the LaCie seems just as good, the Eizo reputedly better, but I want some screen space. THe B&H; store has custom set-ups for photography. One thing they have is blue-tooth which seems absent hereThanks again. Thanks John. I bought the machine with two 2.8 ghz, 2 gb ram 320 gb hard drive, superdrive, airport, etc. I plan on purchasing extra RAM online, maybe at B&H.; I will hook up external harddrives for more storage for the present, eventually getting more hard-drives. I don't really understand the whole RAID discussion. As for screens, after a lot of research, I went for the NEC 2080Wuxi2 with the software. I think the LaCie seems just as good, the Eizo reputedly better, but I want some screen space. THe B&H; store has custom set-ups for photography. One thing they have is blue-tooth which... » Read More Thanks John. I bought the machine with two 2.8 ghz, 2 gb ram 320 gb hard drive, superdrive, airport, etc. I plan on purchasing extra RAM online, maybe at B&H.; I will hook up external harddrives for more storage for the present, eventually getting more hard-drives. I don't really understand the whole RAID discussion. As for screens, after a lot of research, I went for the NEC 2080Wuxi2 with the software. I think the LaCie seems just as good, the Eizo reputedly better, but I want some screen space. THe B&H; store has custom set-ups for photography. One thing they have is blue-tooth which seems absent hereThanks again. « Show Less