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    Unboxing upgrading and testing 500 GB M.2 SSD Samsung 850 EVO MSI GT80 2QE TITAN

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by mobimaniak3000, Jan 29, 2016.

  1. mobimaniak3000

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    Very nice, gotta love that easy upgrade panel on the GT80!
     
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    :)
     
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    Cool video! (And nice build you have there, too.)
     
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    I put the same one in my 3rd slot. It will work in both of the left slots as well, but obviously it will be slower than the stock PCIe SSDs.

    I ended up putting Samsung 950 Pro PCIe's in the left slots in place of the stock ones. They work great and are super fast of course.
     
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    Is working faster in the left slot ?
     
    mobimaniak3000, Jan 30, 2016
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    I don't think the SATA drive would run any faster at all in the PCIe slots, but I didn't install any OS, I only confirmed that it was fully recognized and ready to use.

    However, that said, I will be testing this in the next week or two. I'm wanting to test if I can RAID all three together with like (SATA) drives. I only have one M.2 on hand so I can't test that yet.
     
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    Ok thanks
     
    mobimaniak3000, Jan 30, 2016
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