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    Can I get a little help please?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Andycinoz, Jun 2, 2015.

  1. Andycinoz

    Andycinoz Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,

    I'm looking at purchasing a new G72 Dominator with 4x128GB M.2 SSD's, and a 1TB HD.

    My current rig has 2 x 500GB SSDs, and I'm not sure what to do with my storage! One of my SSD's has games on it, the other has music and work stuff (MS Office docs, for the most part). I'm not sure whether to juggle my music and doc's around on the M.2 SSDs, and install my (pretty full) existing SSD in place of the existing HD, or load everything onto the existing HD. Will I notice much of a performance difference if I throw my games onto the HD? And will there be much noise from the disc? - I've not had a regular hard disc in years, and can't remember how noisy they are!!

    Sadly, I'm buying through Amazon, so I can't get a reseller to remove the optical drive for a HD caddy. And I'm stretching my budget for the MSI, so I can't afford to buy an additional 1GB SSD.

    The M.2 SSD's are in a RAID configoration (Raid 3?) Does this mean that they will appear as one drive on the PC, or will they appear as seperate items? Will it even matter? You can probably tell I'm a little new to the M.2!
     
    Andycinoz, Jun 2, 2015
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