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    XPS L502x Mini PCIe SSD Drives

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kevarmy1337, Sep 6, 2011.

  1. Kevarmy1337

    Kevarmy1337 Notebook Enthusiast

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    could i use 1 of these in the XPS l502x for installing windows and use my internal 640GB hd as backup?

    32gb SSD half mini PCIE for Dell Mini 9 | eBay



    also does the l502x support RAID, i have a 1tb Laptop hard disk and would like to add this into my system.

    cheers,

    kev
     
    Kevarmy1337, Sep 6, 2011
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  2. DakkonA

    DakkonA Notebook Evangelist

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    As to the SSD, no.

    1) The drive is an mSATA, which would require the PCI Express slot to be attached to a motherboard SATA controller.
    2) In theory, a mini-PCI Express SSD with an on-board SATA controller (like the SuperTalent CoreStore MV) could work. However, either the PCI slot has been 'nerfed' to only work with the WWAN/TV Tuner cards, and/or the BIOS doesn't recognize it.
     
    DakkonA, Sep 6, 2011
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    Risco, Sep 6, 2011
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  4. madmattd

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    Also, no on RAID. Even the l702x which has 2 hard drive bays doesn't have RAID, Dell stupidly disabled it despite the chipsets being capable of it.
     
    madmattd, Sep 6, 2011
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  5. gull_s_777

    gull_s_777 Notebook Consultant

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    by the way...
    these mini pci ssds can be used in these new xps series????
     
    gull_s_777, Sep 7, 2011
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    NO, as two people have said here. There is a whole thread on this, no one has gotten anything to work on the XPS series. Something Dell has done to the slot so it only works with WWAN/WLAN cards apparently.
     
    madmattd, Sep 7, 2011
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