M6500 with 64gb Mini + 2 HDDs ??

Has anyone tried to use M6500 with the 64GB Mini PCIe card being the primary drive (boot) drive and two more HDDs in Drive 0 / Drive 1 bays, without RAID configuration??

I have seen some posts suggesting that perhaps a 3rd HDD can be added / used by removing/replacing the DVD drive with an HDD Caddy. However, I am more interested in keeping the DVD Drive but adding the Mini PCIe card, making it the boot the drive, and adding an SDD as drive 0, and adding an HDD as Drive 1.

Thanks !

 

havoctex (a Dell representative on this forum) has said that it's not possible, but I don't know that anyone has actually tried it. I don't think there are that many owners with the Mini-PCIe SSD.

 

Thought it was a BIOS requirement to be able to boot from mini PCI-E?

 

Not sure if this helps, but I have 64Gb SSD as the Windows boot drive (C) and a 500Gb HDD as (D).

The machine as received from Dell would boot from any disk, even USB drives, meaning it kept refusing to boot, as it couldn't find the boot loader - setting the BIOS to boot only from the 64Gb SSD fixed this minor irritation.

One word of advice: as installed from Dell, there is less than 32Gb of the SSD left to actually install programs etc. Either buy a 128Gb drive, or do like I did and wipe the original install (hidden OS partitition as well) and install your own copy of windows, which not only frees up 10-15 Gb of space, but results in a clutter-free install that runs a bit quicker.

Paul