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    P170EM HDD/ODD/mSATA interfaces?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by HeavenCry, Apr 14, 2012.

  1. HeavenCry

    HeavenCry Notebook Virtuoso

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    I was looking at the P170EM specifications and manuals and cant find it specifically mentioning which interfaces it uses.
    I read the mSATA is SATA II and at least one HDD bay is SATA III, but it would be nice to know if both HDD bays are SATA III or not and if the ODD is SATA III as well or just SATA II again.
    So can some reseller please post exact details regarding all this here?
     
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    sata III isn't faster at all than Sata II for regular hard drives. Not even a little bit.

    So it shouldn't matter as long as one of the two is sata III
     
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    Ryan NBR Moderator

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    Both HDD - SATA III

    ODD - SATA II

    mSATA - SATA II
     
    Ryan, Apr 14, 2012
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    We can put another hard drive on msata for p150em right? So basically we can get 2 hard drive without having to remove the cd-rom? Can we have an ssd as a primary drive and put secondary drive on msata?
     
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  5. HeavenCry

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    Thanks again Ryan!
    @ Fredrick90005
    Yes, that is correct you can have an SSD in mSATA slot + HDD in HDD bay in the P150EM leaving the ODD bay for an ODD.
     
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    The mSATA won't support any hard drives- it's a form factor that only has SSD's. You can run an SSD there, with secondary drives in the other bays if you want though. Just note that mSATA SSD's are much slower than their full size relatives.
     
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    You mean current ones. Crucial and mushkin are releasing SSDs very soon that perform as well as their 2.5" counterpart. Too bad clevo limited msata to sataII speeds...
     
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    There already is an mSATA SSD that has speeds pretty on par with 2,5" ones; the Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB. But sadly its not for retail sale, it can be found only in select built systems.

    Review can be found HERE.
    Only thing is this would be limited in the P150EM / P170EM due to the fact the mSATA slot in there is only SATA II.
    Ive been trying to get one of those but no luck so far...
     
    HeavenCry, Apr 15, 2012
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    mythlogic Company Representative

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    We have some high performance mSATA's coming soon.

    Here are some speeds of an Engineering sample that we've been testing over the weekend. Please note this is a 240GB mSATA drive in a P170EM.

    It will also come in 120GB flavor also, same speeds. As you can see it maxes out the SATA2 bus its on.

    So we are planning on using it for more than just cheap caching drives :p
     

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    That partition is 4KB aligned?
     
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    mythlogic Company Representative

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    Of course :)
     
    mythlogic, Apr 15, 2012
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