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    PCIe SSD In Gateway E-100m?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by marvelousmarvyd, Jul 10, 2009.

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    I was reading about using the PCIe SSD as a swap file and was wondering if this was possible for my gateway e-100m since I have a free pci-e slot. I currently have a 320gb hard drive, ulv processor and 2 gig of memory. If this is indeed possible would I see a decent speed increase and what size ssd would be recommended?
     
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    there are no decent pci-e ssd's. all have a very crappy performance. and the best ones are very expensive. it's not worth it imo. about supporting it it's just a bios issue. you have to check it.
    if you have an optical drive you can remove it and install a HDD or SSD.
    you may possible use the card reader with a good SD card. though it will be much cheapper performance will be still very lame.
     
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    Not possible with notebooks. Netbooks share the same PCI-E connector but have PATA and/or SATA I/O pins in there. Notebooks only have PCI and USB pins in there - so no it won't work. If you want a SSD consider using the your systems primary bay for the SSD, moving the HDD into a hotswappable optical bay caddy (see sig).
     
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    That notebook doesn't have an optical drive... It does use a 2.5" sata drive though...you could gain some speed by replacing your 320 with a SSD, but that would be smaller and expensive. As long as you have a 7200rpm drive I wouldn't worry about it.
     
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    man.. i always wondered that... thx allot... you just ruined my dreams of dual SSD's... lol
     
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    Actually.. I believe it's technically possible. Why? because there are PCI-E e (expressport) e-SATA ports, and there are PCI-e SATA SSDs. A manufacturer needs to combine both of them into a sandwich thin item to allow installation in the pci-e slot. Only problem might be it wouldn't be able to boot from it.. but that's OK.. run grub to redirect boot process off a SD card.

    I would contemplate doing it, but there is simply not enough room in my pci-e space to combine both cards into a makeshift single card.
     
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    well.. i would be booting off of my main SSD which would be ALOT faster..
    its just that 32gb doesnt cut it for me and i dont have $200 dollars to spare to replace my current ssd with a 64 gb one!
    what other upgrade could i put in a pcie slot in my lappy?
     
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    Can try to mod in an external 1x PCI-E slot OR an internal expresscard slot as described here. If you're handy with a soldering iron could do it for as low as $12US + the cost of a 12V PSU.
     
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