Answers wanted about MSI GT72 Dominator G-1667

Hello all!
Well I'm looking to purchase the new MSI GT72 Dominator G-1667 and am looking to have some questions answered please? 1. Are the M.2 SSD's installed on the "daughterboard" like they are the previous gen GT72? 2. If so is the daughterboard accessible just by removing the screws and popping off the bottom cover of the laptop off or do I have to remove the battery, cpu & gpu fans, and everything else to access it on the other side of the motherboard? I'm looking to move the Raid 0 array onto a couple of Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD's. I just want to make sure before I purchase everything in order to do this with. Thank you for the assistance you offer me.
CGD

 

The model that comes with SSD will have the daughterboard.
The daughterboard can be removed by loosening the screws and pop it off. You won't have to remove anything else.
http://releaselaptop.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1.jpg

 

Kevin,
I want to thank you for your assistance. You and the GenTech team and the others on this forum I have always had the greatest and utmost respect for. Thank you!
CGD

 

One more question that I just thought of please folks? Until I would get the funds to buy an additional 2 more ssd's to match the ones that I'm replacing the ones that come with this. Would it be possible to have my RAID 0 array set up on the 2 Samsung SSD's that I'm putting in and then use the 2 128GB SSD's that come with this model separately as extra storage? If so how would I go about setting that up? Would I make the recovery drive, replace the stock ssd's with wthe new ssdsand restore the OS, and then put the stock ssd's in and format the stock ssds then? Sorry to be such a bother folks but I'm new to utilizing SSDs and setting up RAID

CGD

 

Why not use just the stock SSDs in the beginning and later add SSDs that you might think are better for your purpose?

You may find that they are enough.

I'm still waiting for Skylake.
http://www.techspot.com/news/61590-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-performance-reportedly-revealed.html

 

WTP,

I would love to be able to wait for Skylake, but thanks to my nieces and nephews and their destructive nature I don't have the luxury of patience with that if I would like to be able to keep my clientelle happy as I use this machine mostly for gaming, but it's also my mobile development machine as well. I would stick with the stock SSDs if I was happy with the capacity of them and wait till later on to switch them out, but with vms and everything I would like to have more room than I need as that is my general rule of thumb with that.

CGD

 

Don't forget you can get 4TB of traditional storage in the machine to back up any SSDs to act an archive if you replace the optical drive with a caddy, or 2TB if you don't want to do that.

 

If your current setup is AHCI and you get 2 more SSDs to make them a 2-drive RAID 0 array then you will have to reload the OS from scratch. It won't hurt to try the stock recovery discs on the RAID mode but they are mostly intended for single-SSD with AHCI edition.
You can mix a single drive plus RAID drives in a RAID mode, but you can't have any RAID arrays in AHCI mode.

 

It could happen that you only habe one 256GB SSD instead of a a raus with 2 128GB SSDs. In mine GT72 was only one M2 disk installed.

 

Damn autocorrection....raus=raid

 

Yup, the recovery set is different from a PC with AHCI mode and RAID mode.