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    m5790 with sata II hdd

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by rive0108, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. rive0108

    rive0108 Notebook Consultant

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    Just ordered two 320GB 7200RPM sata 3.0 drives for my m5790 to be run in raid 0. (WD Scorpio black).
    Apparently sata 3.0 is backwards compatible with 1.5, but there have been issues with the VIA VT6420 and VT6421L (the m5790 uses the VT6421).
    Anyone else sucessfully install sata 3.0 drives in the m5700/m5750/m5790 series without jumper shunts?


    11/30/08
    HDD's installed no issues (other than minor WEI score drop for disk transfer rate from 5.9 to 5.5)
     
    rive0108, Nov 21, 2008
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