Is there any reason not to use a. M.2 drive vs an external SSD?Assuming your motherboard supports it.
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This sata III m-2 will run exactly like a external SSD @ 6 Gb/s. The claim to fame with the M-2 is the NGFF drives that are PCIe drives @ 10 Gb/s. Eg. Plextor Me6 x2 or the Samsung XP941 x4. Sata is a bottleneck @ 6 Gb/s but can use the M-2 slot if one wishes.
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External? If you mean esata or USB than no. As for an internal sata SSD, M.2's may cost more and could be suseptable to heat in poorly cooled cases. Depending on your motherboard, using the M.2 interface may disable from one to four sata ports and thus may limit the number of drives that can be installed. Check the motherboard's manual if you're concerned.Used as the boot debice, they're blazingly fast.
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M.2 The reason using drive is because I can mount only the size behind ThinkPad X1.
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Works great as an SSD "dock" I highly recommend the Crucial M500 drive but should work with Samsung
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To use Intel's SSD support you need to run in RAID and your MoBo must have the correct chipset. There is a cap to the size of the SSD you can use. If not using RAID, I would go the route of Sandisk again. If running RAID or installing building a new system I'd go the other route.Using their caching software (rather than Intel's, as I don't run in Raid and didn't want to reconfigure my system), it definitely sped up my system and drastically cut my boot time.
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You need an open bay, or slot to put the drive into. It is well worth the exchange, if there is no other available. Start-up and picture loading becomes closer to instantaneous. The ssd will use less battery, will not get the computer as hot (which always works against speed), and is less delicate.
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This is a M.2 SSD, you need to get a 2.5 SSD not the M.2. But you will waste the 1TB+8G Hyper Drive.If I were U, I will save the money on the next best thing.
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You will definitely need a 2.5" drive. If you are looking for more speed, choose a smaller SSD drive or at least upgrade to a 7200 rpm drive. If you need a lot more space, but not constant access to your data then you might consider a fast external USB drive.
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I'm using a "Crucial M500 M.2 2280 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT120M500SSD4 " that I caught on sale for $46 for boot and antivirus, with a 500GB ssd for pgms and a 1TB for snapshots and data. No problems with install from optical disk, no problems running Win7. Not any faster than a standard ssd. Consider what you will do when the M.2 ssd fails, do you have a back up replacement ready to go? Or will you revert to a standard ssd?
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Performance wise, it's worth every single penny. When I purchased mine I swaped it for a 1TB M500 SSD and the boost in performance was phenomenal. Nothing sucks more than having a very powerful PC but a slow HDD. Doesnt really work well!
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There is no problem using SSDs, although I could never get both ports to work. I had three different cards (one RMAed) on two servers and the second port would never work for me.
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Internal drive is the primary use so should be ok as long as you have the right connection which I believe for this drive is SATA.
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I believe that this drive will work on that motherboard it is a m.2 ngff ssd and it looks like that motherboard will accept m.2 ssds
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No, this is not a SSD drive. I would not recommend using a SSD drive as an external device. The price point per gigabyte ( X gigabyte/$ = pricepoint) does not make financial sense. Also , you will suffer a performance hit with most of the common available ports on a laptop or pc (USB2/USB3 {avg 90MBs} and eSATA {avg 75MBs}) ,which would neglect the advantage of these super fast devices (SSD avg 500MBs). Because of the port speeds an old fashion hard drive is the best choice.
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I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
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Absolutely perfect for it. You can pick out the various components to suit your wallet and needs, but do NOT skimp on the RAM! And, install a second drive if possible. They're both very inexpensive if you you know where to buy them. I have always used http://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfm for my HDs and RAM.
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More storage is always preferred so I'd go with both drives (SSD with the OS so everything is faster and hybrid as a secondary for downloads). An SSD will usually cost more per GB than a hybrid drive but SSD is faster, quiter, more reliable, and less susceptible to damage since there's no moving parts. You can check reviews for the different drives on sites like www.cnet.com to get in-depth information including pros/cons. I have Windows 7 running on the 1GB hybrid drive and it's great!
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I bought that computer for my son, he loves it, no problems. Unfortunately I don't know what a ssd drive is, nor does he, so I can't give you any info on that.
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Yes as long as you don't have more data on your drive than the SSD capacity.