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    I found a use for the TurboRAM slot.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bizzybody, Dec 23, 2015.

  1. bizzybody

    bizzybody Notebook Guru

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    For my MPC TransPort T2500 (Samsung x65) I got one of those USB to Mini PCIe adapters, plugged in a small 4 gig USB drive then put the adapter in the slot and held it down with the single mounting screw.

    Booted up and there it was, no muss, no fuss, an extra internal 4 gig drive. :) The adapter has a USB 3.0 connector on it but it's just connecting to the USB 2.0 pins in the MPCIe connector, with some small chips on for whatever, not at all a USB 3.0 controller.

    Now I'd like to find an inexpensive but not horribly slow 128 gig (or larger) USB drive I can remove the case from to plug into this adapter as an augment to the 500 gig hard drive. Could possibly even install another OS to boot from.

    What would be very nice is to be able to hack the BIOS to make the slot work as a normal MPCIe so I could pop in an MPCIe SSD using the PCIe 1x bus instead of the USB.
     
    bizzybody, Dec 23, 2015
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    kosti Notebook Virtuoso

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    I don't think you can hack the BIOS to use that as a pci express slot. They are wired differently.
     
    kosti, Dec 23, 2015
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    bizzybody Notebook Guru

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    I haven't been able to find a pinout for Turbo RAM to compare. Dell's proprietary implementation of Turbo RAM is physically incompatible with the MPCIe slot.
     
    bizzybody, Dec 24, 2015
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