Mini PCI-e SSDs

crap...... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220370

i know the m15x can have them to but add it on 192 gigs added to the m17 with out a hub .....

 

you can't count that... otherwise, i'd just hook up a NAS via ethernet and claim i've got 500TB of storage space. you can only count storage space that is inside the notebook (HDD, optical drive, mini-PCIe).

 

....hook up a usb on the inside and stuff them in there

so what else hummmm i think we are outta options so what are the grand totals?

1000 for HD's
128 for mini pci -e
50 for blu ray
14 for ram
64 express card

right?

 

m17 - 2x500GB (HDD) + 2x64GB (mini-PCIe) + 1x50GB (BR) + 1x64GB (expresscard) + 1x32GB (SDHC card)= 1274GB
m15x - 2x500GB (HDD & SB) + 3x64GB (mini-PCIe) + 1x50GB (BR) + 1x64GB (expresscard) + 1x32GB (SDHC card)= 1338GB

a decisive win for the m15x.

 

i got 1288 because i added the 14 gigs i could make on the ram

 

yeah but that's not "storage space"... as soon as you turn off the laptop, that data will vanish within a few hours. oh and you can use 1 6GB, not 14GB

 

well i know i said 14 because i left 2 gigs for the OS ,,, i mentioned that

it still counts we need every kb we can get

 

fine, throw in 6GB (8-2GB) for the m15x too

 

go ahead

 

revised totals:

m17 - 2x500GB (HDD) + 2x64GB (mini-PCIe) + 1x50GB (BR) + 1x64GB (expresscard) + 1x32GB (SDHC card) + 2x8GB (RAM)= 1290GB
m15x - 2x500GB (HDD & SB) + 3x64GB (mini-PCIe) + 1x50GB (BR) + 1x64GB (expresscard) + 1x32GB (SDHC card) + 2x4GB (RAM)= 1346GB

 

I've been thinking about this. It might not be too bad, since even a netbook can boot windows from the SSD. So, it might not be as slow as we think it is.

 

it will be a little slower then a fast 7200 rpm... maybe the same depending

 

So is the drive bootable then? Could you see it from the bios and boot from it? Because then, you could have ssd for os and hdd for data

 

the SSD would be slower then the hard drive .......

 

From http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240636%201421544987&name=Mini%20PCIe

For: SUPER TALENT FPM64GRSE 64GB Mini PCIe

"Read: 90 MB/sec
Write: 55 MB/sec"

How exactly is that slower? with seek times in the nanosecond (as opposed to millisecond for standard HDDs), and 90MBps sequential read rates, this SSD would kill a standard disk.

 

I didn't want to read all 7 pages, but I own a couple mini pci-e ssd and an m15x. Before I even installed my runcore ssd from mydigitaldiscount into my eee pc, i tried it on my m15x.. this was a few months ago.

The interface is the same for both computers, but the ssd itself is much longer than a standard mini pci-e card, and thus it does not fit in the m15x, while it does in the eee pc because it has a longer area open for the ssd.

None of the 3 mini pci-e slots on the m15x fit a SSD, I've checked all three just to be sure, although because they're the same size, it didn't really matter.

 

that dude just saved quite a few guys a very unhappy weekend

 

too late....lol
while i am not home yet, i ordered a pci-e ssd for the heck of it. (not the oversized 64G for it, just a 16G for shytes and giggles)...
bummers....oh well....

 

my bad i looked at a mini pci SSD and it had lower reads and writes i just assumed ..... yup my bad, i was wrong

 

what type was it? sata runcore?

 

will they fit in the m17 if so i may look to buy it from you ryujin .....

 

pci-e ssd <<<< i believe this is the one i ordered...i can not log in to verify what was ordered to confirm this at this time.

your on...i shall let you know. but it will be after 20 april 2009 since i wil not be bale to try it until then.

 

They wont fit in ANY standard mini pci-e slot. Reason being is that the back of the card has two screw holes to secure the card in place, otherwise it's fairly easy to remove by accident (such as moving the laptop). The screw slots line up with regular mini pci-e slots, but the SSDs are longer and the slots are further back.

 

what about the half mini pci-e?

 

The ones I originally posted seem to be a different size though, compare the two -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609405


http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/SP...d-for-dell-mini-9-----80000871-1220584935.jsp

What do you think?

 

These ones should fit, they are the same size as the Turbo memory -

http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk/32gbruncorepataminipciedellmini9.html

 

So the AW laptops all have 50mm Mini PCIe slots, not 70mm? Can someone confirm whether this applies to M17x & M17 (previous message from Koshinn refers only to trying to fit an EEE PC SSD (70mm) in to an M15x...)

Apparently the Mini PCIe spec states "PCI Express Mini Cards are 30 x 56 mm", so the 70mm ones are for none standard slots, so I guess all AW laptops probably do have only the standard slots, thus only 50mm SSDs will fit.

 

Now just got to find if you can boot from them, who's going to be first?

 

Just to save anyone else the cost and effort involved here, I can confirm the mini pci-e ssd's don't work in the M15x. I tried a 64Gb Runcore, they fit well in the two empty slots, but the bios doesn't recognize them. I think short of a different bios there's nothing that can be done. Maybe some whitelist in place for these slots. Bit of a disappointment...

 

That sucks to hear. Thanks for trying though. Maybe It'll work for the m17.

 

good question i just dun have alot of money too try one right now any one got a test unit