Besides the 4 external slots, can I mount an SSD only for the OS & apps? I need the external bays available for data. Also can I run 4 - 3TB drives?
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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Mine didnt come with a cdrom drive. So i guess you can put it there. Just find a adapter or housing for it. Ther drive bays are for 3.5 drives. Most ssd comes with 3.5 adapters. But if you need the space use the cdrom slot. And get an external dvd reader.
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Prelim answers are, yes for the ssd (that is how I run them), but, since one internal slot is loaded with the ssd, there are only three left for additional drives. So, I think you will be able to run 3 3-TB additional storage drives, plus the USB slots. The preferred HP solution will be to put a Small Sata SSD onto the motherboard for use of the OS. See Amazon: Lite On Plextor M5M 0.85-Inch 256GB mSATA Solid State Drive (M5M 256GB) The result is an ultra-fast OS and no loss of Mass-Storage.
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I had some 2.5 to 3.5 SSD adapters that are for desktop installs. You can probably get one on the auction site cheap. I had 2 notebook drives in mine, fit well.
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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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If this is your only storage device no. This drive is to small as a stand alone. Best if you put your operating system on it and use a normal hard drive as your main storage. You can use the extra on the ssd as virtual memory and this can speed up a system greatly.
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Ben,The SSD mounts on the bottom base of the case behind the power supply and under 3.5 inch drive bays. there are 4 screw holes that match up with the screw holes on the SSD.
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4 internal drive bays - non hotswap. Mine (running Linux) does not recognise 3TB drive, newer ones might. Yes you can add external USG drives. 4 USB 2.0 ports in front and 2 in back,
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no its fine. I can guarantee that you will never see the difference between 4 and more on OSX as it will just cache stuff to the ssd which is really fast as well.
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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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What type of speed are you looking for on your ram?When I was researching it said that up to 2400 MHz and Kingston hyper x ram was on sale for a pretty good deal. But if you are looking for looks and performance i would suggest the corsair deliminator platinum (they are rediciously expensive). But yes the motherboard will take both SSD and HDD I have a 2tb with two ssds in raid zero. Runs great!!. Hope this helps.
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I use my ssd just for the OS and programs. Data storage such as music and documents I do one an HDD I have both installed internally.
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If I recall correctly, you can install an mSATA SSD into the motherboard, if you are using a standard 2.5" SSD you need to use an adaptor kit to mount it in one of the 3.5" bays.
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The slots for hard drives are internal only. The external ones are for optical drives, so you can have up to 3 optical drives in that case and a lot of internal hard drives
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not... » Read More I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. « Show Less
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I used 4TB drives. I also have a USB 3.0 adapter and a RocketRaid card for use with an external 4-Bay RAID box. In the 51/4" bay, I put one of those slim DVD / 2.5" combo brackets. For the DVD I am using a slot load Blu-Ray and the 2.5" bay is for SSD running Server Essentials 2012. The SSD is plugged into the internal DVD sata port, and the BD drive is running off an internal USB port connected to a USB>Sata converter pulled from an old WD MyBook external drive.
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Others (per forum postings elsewhere) have replaced the 500mb standard drive upon purchase to avoid the hassles. You *can* un-mount the OS drive. Most users just probably *shouldn't* go through that. I just left it in there and added 2 1TB drives. Heck Seagate 1.5TB drives are now well under $200 each.Regardless, you can back up the server software (and backup the backup) via the external ports (4 USB/1 eSATA). I recommend doing so and backing up your backup and then taking that to an off-site location such as your work office, safety deposit box, friend's house, etc.
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No, this is not a SSD drive. I would not recommend using a SSD drive as an external device. The price point per gigabyte ( X gigabyte/$ = pricepoint) does not make financial sense. Also , you will suffer a performance hit with most of the common available ports on a laptop or pc (USB2/USB3 {avg 90MBs} and eSATA {avg 75MBs}) ,which would neglect the advantage of these super fast devices (SSD avg 500MBs). Because of the port speeds an old fashion hard drive is the best choice.
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Much slower than internal SSD. I would not run apps from the PNY. User data is ok. But I suggest setting up filevault disk encryption so if the PNY is removed by third party they will not have access to your data. Will not add to RAM that will allow you to run more apps at the same time.