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    Series 7 - Hard Drives & SSD

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by kingbobo, Jul 23, 2012.

  1. kingbobo

    kingbobo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Been thinking that if I take the plunge and get one of these (not likely till the 7970m version is out) then I'll probably want to replace the HDD's with SSD's.

    I know that currently it works with 2 HDD's and an 8GB SSD cache so if I want to remove all of that and put 2x 256GB Crucial M4's, can I simply remove the 2 HDD's and cache?

    Would anyone buy these separately or are they specific to Samsung laptops?
     
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    kurri17 Notebook Guru

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    just to add to the OP,
    what brands are known to work excellent and smoothly, and I guess cheap if possible??

    I have the Samsung SSD 128GB in mine at the moment.
     
    kurri17, Jul 23, 2012
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    mastypk Notebook Evangelist

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    Crucial is the cheapest & most reliable.

    Series 7 has just 1 hdd bay. How to put 2 drives?
     
    mastypk, Jul 23, 2012
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  4. kingbobo

    kingbobo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not sure if that's correct.

    From my understanding there are 2x750GB HDD's in there so there must be 2 HDD bays
     
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  5. mastypk

    mastypk Notebook Evangelist

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    I would recommend you to search more before purchasing.

    Chronos 14 = 1 hdd bay (any version)
    Chronos 15.6" = 1hdd bay (any version)
    Chronos 17.3" = 1hdd bay (any version)

    17.3" is the biggest one & it still has one hdd bay. Maybe you are willing to remove your DVD drive & place another hdd in place of dvd-rom drive in caddy. Then you can place two hard disk, else no way. But in this case, you will lose your dvd-rom.

    For your reference, here is a detailed hdd replacement video of 17.3" model by Paul.

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    http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l8/ifarted2/20120501_163030.jpg

    Video
    Samsung 7 Intel i7 3615QM Nvidia 650M 17" Laptop SSD & Memory Install by Paul Nelson - YouTube

    Hope this will help.
     
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  6. kingbobo

    kingbobo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry I am referring to the Series 7 Gamer, G7A or G7C. I dont see how they could possibly have a single HDD bay with 2 HDD's running in there?


     
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  7. mastypk

    mastypk Notebook Evangelist

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    Oh, Sorry.

    I was assuming that you are looking for Chronos. yes, Gamer series has dual HDD.

    My bad, I couldn't get this from this line too "not likely till the 7970m version is out"

    Sorry.
     
    mastypk, Jul 23, 2012
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