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    Need help with mSATA Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jrwingate6, Sep 21, 2013.

  1. jrwingate6

    jrwingate6 Notebook Deity

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    I've been out of the game for about 2 years and I'm not exactly sure what a mSATA Drive is. I'm assuming it's just a SSD that plugs into a port on the Motherboard rather than sitting in a hard drive bay?

    Also, can you run the operating system off of the mSATA? Basically what I would like to do is use a mSATA as my primary hard drive. Is this possible?
     
    jrwingate6, Sep 21, 2013
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  2. Tasku

    Tasku Notebook Enthusiast

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    That's exactly what it is and it will be detected and used by OS like any other HDD/SSD.
    There are some nuances, on some machines mini PCI-E slots that take mSATA devices are limited to SATA2 speeds (while the SATA port is SATA3), on some machines the mSATA device can't be set as boot drive in the BIOS (in this case you will need to have the boot manager on HDD [with W7 / W8 the 100MB / 350MB system reserved partition] and the OS itself on mSATA SSD, but this won't slow things down).
     
    Tasku, Sep 22, 2013
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