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    Clevo P157SM which to buy mSATA or SSD

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by shlimon, Jul 14, 2013.

  1. shlimon

    shlimon Newbie

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    I am in process of buying Clevo P157SM, need help in deciding between mSATA or SSD.for OS drive (primary drive). I will be using a regular drive for data storage.

    And help decide between Nvidia 770m and AMD 8970m.

    Thank you.
     
    shlimon, Jul 14, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    For the second slot remember it needs to be a 7mm slim drive, I'd go for the full drive as they tend to be cheaper and you have a wider selection.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 14, 2013
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    Bullrun Notebook Deity

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    +1 and the performance is better SSD over mSATA
     
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Actually from a performance point of view you can do pretty much the same thing, especially when you consider how little impact a user would actually notice between the best and a reasonable SSD.

    The advantage usually comes down to price and max capacity.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 14, 2013
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    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Spot on.

    As for the GPU question, the 8970M will give you better performance, though you may experience some headache with CCC/drivers. With NVidia, you're more or less paying the premium for the dependability.
     
    Prostar Computer, Jul 15, 2013
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    cutterjohn Notebook Evangelist

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    True this(see my sig). I lived in catalyst for ~3y until they dropped 4XXX support more or less BEFORE FIXING all their damned bugs. It's the only fw/regular driver updatable piece of hw that I ever looked forward every month for new driver releases the the forlorn(and feeble) hope that they would just fix the bugs/improve perf/NOT add yet even MOAR bugs, but nope, never happened.

    Hence my new nb & desktop GPU choices. AMD/ATI no more, not ever until they demonstrably show that they know WTH they're doing(drivers, and for that matter CPU design), of which I give a snowball a better chance in hell.
     
    cutterjohn, Jul 15, 2013
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  7. shlimon

    shlimon Newbie

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    Thank you all, I think I will go with nvidia 770m.

    As for primary hard drive I am leaning towards mSATA as I want to use the available slots for RAID.

    ProStar do you have a showroom?
     
    shlimon, Jul 15, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Just remember a standard height HDD will not fit in the second slot, so usually an SSD is put there. If you intend to use 2 SSDs in raid, you probably just want to throw your OS and data on there and put the money from the mSATA into two larger drives.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 16, 2013
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