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    Would this make a good boot drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Raidriar, Jan 24, 2011.

  1. Raidriar

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    Well I have 2 extra mini pci e slots in my laptop, so i wanted to fill em up. I was wondering if buying this would be a good option JUST FOR BOOTING WINDOWS. I would have my secondary 7200RPM 320gb hard drive for the main data storage, but I'd use the ssd for booting windows/mac os x. would this be faster than my current setup?
     
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    no mention of any guarantee/warranty nor of windows support nor of hardware support.

    It's your $50-
     
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    You also have to be sure your laptop not only supports PCI-e SATA but that you can boot from it. Now if it doesn't suppport booting from pci-e you MAY be able to grub the HDD and then boot from the PCI-e drive to windows. Again alot of variables from that too.

    As mentioned it is your 50. I'd suggest if you have a spare drive bay too get a real SSD................
     
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    Seriously, the market is pretty well flooded with almost-compatible PCIe/sata SSD modules that will ONLY function in an eeE or Dell Mini9 netbook and WILL NOT function in other devices.

    The Asus and Dell netbooks have an almost-compatible connector with non-standard pinouts.
     
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