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    Dual RAID0 MSATA SSD SATA3 in the next...MSI laptop?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by funkmasterta, May 2, 2013.

  1. funkmasterta

    funkmasterta Notebook Evangelist

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    Leave it to the competition to be the first to do this.

    Kind of disappointed that Alienware wasn't the first and now has to play catch up.

    Hopefully, the next gen Alienwares won't be left behind by MSI and their other competitors.

    Would love to see Alienware one up the competition and throw in Dual RAID0 MSATA SSD running at SATA3! Could easily hit 1gb+ mb/sec speeds!
     
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  2. Prolixious

    Prolixious Notebook Deity

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    High read speeds, mediocre write speeds. One step forward, one step back. :rolleyes:
     
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  3. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    Personally, I'd prefer having more normal sized 2.5" HDD/SSD bays more than having two mSATA. The number of available SATA3 ports is limited based on the Intel mobile chipset, and I am glad that Alienware did not waste one of them on an mSATA slot. One mSATA seems like plenty to me. Two would be nice if we could keep just as many 2.5" bays, but not in lieu of one 2.5" drive bay. The Alienware products seems so much better than the MSI products in multiple ways, including performance, that the addition of a second mSATA slot doesn't make up for those differences.

    Here's the correct thread for MSI GX60 discussions: http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/692264-offical-msi-gx60-owners-lounge.html
     
    Mr. Fox, May 2, 2013
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