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    Wanting to do a optical bay ssd caddy install on a NP700Z5A-S0AUS

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by PhoQis, Mar 7, 2012.

  1. PhoQis

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    Hello everyone, I am wanting to do a optical bay caddy install on my Samsung Series 7 NP700Z5A-S0AUS . I have been looking at the ones available on modeus.com along with a Samsung 830 64g SSD. My question is what is the easiest way to load my OS and drivers without any unnecessary bloat ware. If anyone can post a walk threw I would greatly appreciate it. Also wanted to know if swapping the stock wifi card with an Intel 6230. I know my computer comes with a Intel card installed but I’m not sure of its specs.
     
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    i am on the same boat, i got my ssd, will get my caddy today(17$, ebay MBP caddy). Just pop it into the caddy, then into the drive, and use clonezilla to clone your exiting drive. I tested my new OCZ agility 3 on a lenovo modular bay laptop and got 15 sec boot time+270MBps transfer speeds, on SATA2. Will be using the same on my SS7. I am not worried at all abt bloatware bcz mine came from Microsoft store, Windows siggnature edition, no bloat.
     
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    Hey guys thanks for the info. How long do these post stay up? Thing is Im in Afghanistan right now so I will not be able to do the swap until I get home. I have about a month left so I'm hoping this info will still be up then. I just got my comp in and figured out the wifi card is the 6230 so I not going to be doing that swap.
     
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    That type of ebay item usually gets relisted frequently. Just take a note of the seller since we know that particular product works fine.

    John
     
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