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    Maximum HDD capacity with SSD and ODD BAY mod???

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by stefan063, Jun 2, 2016.

  1. stefan063

    stefan063 Notebook Consultant

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    I ordered 2 Samsung 850 EVO 480GB SSD and ODD bay for 3rd HDD where I want to put 1 TB Seagate 7.200 Black HDD wich I havent bought yet. So my question is how much HDD space can be put in R1? Or should I buy 3rd SSD 850 EVO and put them in 3x 0 Raid. I plan to put these two SSDs in RAID 0.
     
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    I want to buy 3rd HDD. I need info ASAP. Total size in TB???
     
    stefan063, Jun 3, 2016
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    I don't believe there is a limit, the limit is the size of hard drives available for sale, you could put 3x 2TB hardrives in your R1 and be totally fine.
     
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    OK. Should I buy SATA II instead of SATA III for ODD bay because ODD supports SATA II only? Or there is a way to force ODD drive to read SATA III (6Gb/s)?
     
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    SATA III drives are backwards compatible with your SATA II ODD, no forcing is required, you will only ever get SATA II speeds though. If the sata II drive is cheaper I'd go with that, otherwise it wont make any difference.
     
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    What counts in SSD are IOPS and access time. You can safely use SATA2. I did it in my old toshiba qosmio and it was very good upgrade.
     
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    bascically there's no limit with the sata connection, I've tried 2*2TB hdds and a 512gb SSD in my m18xr2 and it recognized just fine
     
    twin snakes, Jun 7, 2016
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