I am still confused Drive Only??? is that only the SSD without any the box coming with it
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Drive only means drive only in Intel box without any cable or screws or software which are there in retail packing.
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The blue colored box in the image contains the SSD drive, cables, etc. Installation is very easy to understand. I was able to backup my old drive using Acronis software, to an external drive, swap the drives and restore from the backup.
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No, you would never expect to have anything pre-installed on a bare drive like this. Formatted maybe, but usually not. Completely empty.
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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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My SSD did not come with a cable. I believe there are other items that come with a cable.
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You can buy this with SSD already included. This brand has dozens of models in this size of every possible option and I have one like this with SSD.
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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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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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I'm sorry, it was advertised as having the SSHD, but it only came shipped with a 1TB HDD :(
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no it doesnt come with a ssd, but it does have an extra hdd bay so you can buy one and install it.
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No. you will have to buy a separate 2.5 inch SSD drive along with it. I bot one for around 150$.
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This computer have 2 hard drive slots, and one is empty when you get the computer, which means you can add an SSD without replacing the HDD.
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This is the full retail box, complete with screws and SATA cable. HOWEVER, be careful that you get it from Amazon and not a 3rd party seller. Some of the 3rd party sellers have been pulling these drives from external enclosures, and those drives carry NO WARRANTY (they can tell from the serial number on the drive) once removed from their enclosures.
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No idea -- it ships with two SSD drives that equal roughly 250GB of storage. I was wondering that too when I bought it, but it seems that whoever wrote the page made a mistake.
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If you clone the drive then you are moving everything from the host drive. If you have the OS DVD then you could do a clean install and have just the OS on the ssd
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They all have three slots, but not all have all three drives. Mine only came with the one 128GB SSD
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It is an enclosed SSD, so yes it comes with the drive. A very good one too. I own 1-240GB and 2-460GB U32's. If you have the same experience I have had with these drives you will like it a lot!
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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