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    OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-60G

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by sulliboys, Nov 29, 2011.

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    I believe the optical drive is only a 1.5gbps so a 6gbps drive is really going to be a bit of a waste. Plus you are not going to want to install your OS on your secondary drive...

    I would put the OCZ you mention in the primary drive and then move your mechanical drive to the secondary slot.
     
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    Alright
    sorry thats what I was planning to do, forgot to mention it.
    I meant that i would put the ssd in the hd bay, and the 500gb hd in the optical.
    anyway...any experience>?
     
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    My experience: Right after format of my 120Gig drive I had 111Gigs available.

    Your 60 Gigs is enough. I mean would be enough for me.

    I use 47 Gigs (Win7SP1+COD MW3+BF3+Dark Horizon+all other applications I need). Now I have 64 Gigs free.
     
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    Alright thanks.
    any experiences with the sata2/sata3 thing? is it performing at which speed (include if you have them please)
    I was hearing this drive has bad write speeds.
     
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    Dude I'm having same if not similar problem with Vertex 3 as well. During the installation of windows 7 is fine, but after I installed windows 7 the restart for the first use took forever to load and during this time the fan was going berserk. So I decided to turn the power off and load it again. Same problem, then again this time it took a shorter time to load and I got in windows. However, the next restart after I installed a driver the same problem happened again, and I can never get back in windows now, always stuck.

    Should I contact OCZ about this problem? Can anyone give me some advice? Thanks
     
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    By the way here's my specs:
    Alienware M14x: Core i7 2720QM, 8GB 1600Mhz, GT 555M 3GB, 750GB HDD (trying to use 120gb Vertex 3 but very disappointed at the momet)
     
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