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    Clevo P150EM mSATA - Install advice needed

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Johnatas, Jul 15, 2012.

  1. Johnatas

    Johnatas Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I order a P150EM, with a 750GB 7200rpm HD, and bought a OCZ Nocti 120GB mSATA to put on him, my questions is:

    1) Do I need to make anything before install? Or I only need to put BIOS in AHCI mode?
    2) Is it good to use the SRT cache in the mSATA, if I'm installing the OS on mSATA?

    Thanks!
     
    Johnatas, Jul 15, 2012
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    1) Depending on your reseller, you laptop should already be in AHCI mode already. I would suggest double checking though, to be sure.

    2) The SRT Caching only works if you have the OS installed on the 750GB drive as the mSATA works as a "temporary" storage location for the most frequently used programs.
     
    Heihachi_1337, Jul 17, 2012
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  3. Johnatas

    Johnatas Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ah, thanks friend =)

    Do I need to make any other setups before installing the Win7 no the mSATA? If caching doesn't works, so it appears that the installation on SSD is same of the installation on HDD, right?
     
    Johnatas, Jul 17, 2012
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    You can't do both. You either use the mSATA as your boot drive or you use it for SRT. You just install your OS like you do with any drive. It's an SSD, it's a real SSD.
     
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    As hula has stated, the mSATA is treated just like a regular SSD. You could even install 2x 2.5-inch drives one being an SSD and the other being the HDD and you can use that SSD as a caching drive.

    So you can either install the entire OS on the mSATA SSD and it will work the same as any other SSD, or you can keep the OS on the HDD and then leave the mSATA blank and enable it as a caching drive.

    Essentially, the caching drive would work just like the Seagate hybrid drive but instead of the 8GB of SSD caching in the drive itself, you would have a separate SSD with more than 8GB of caching (32GB, 64GB, 90GB) utilizing the mSATA or standard SSD.
     
    Heihachi_1337, Jul 17, 2012
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