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Integral mSATA SSD 512GB €45 / 1TB €100

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  • 26-01-2020 3:20pm
    #1
    eqwjewoiujqorj
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    Both available from Jan 27th.

    512GB from Amazon.de - €37.28 + €7.51 = €44.79 Uk deals
    1TB from Amazon.co.uk - £84.43 approx €100 UKDeals

    These seem to be mSATA drives despite saying M.2 info in listings.


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,166 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Tempting but the bottleneck there is significant. Probably use it as a games drive but not an OS drive. Actually I might have a spare MSata slot on an adapter card. If it won't hurt bandwidth for my 860 it could be a good buy.


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    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭Homelander


    Just so people are aware, mSata is a completely obsolete standard, you wouldn't use these in a modern laptop/desktop. You can get significantly faster M2 SSD's for the same price that will work with modern machines, or standard and faster 2.5" SSD's for less.

    Might be an OK price if you have an old device that uses mSata.


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    Doodee
    Registered Users Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭Doodee


    Homelander wrote: »
    Just so people are aware, mSata is a completely obsolete standard, you wouldn't use these in a modern laptop/desktop. You can get significantly faster M2 SSD's for the same price that will work with modern machines, or standard and faster 2.5" SSD's for less.

    Might be an OK price if you have an old device that uses mSata.

    Can you link to a faster drive for the same price? I can only find 256GB m2 or NVMe drives for €36.


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    doctorg
    Registered Users Posts: 548 ✭✭✭doctorg


    Homelander wrote: »
    Just so people are aware, mSata is a completely obsolete standard, you wouldn't use these in a modern laptop/desktop. You can get significantly faster M2 SSD's for the same price that will work with modern machines, or standard and faster 2.5" SSD's for less.

    Might be an OK price if you have an old device that uses mSata.

    any good to use as an external SSD ?


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,166 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    doctorg wrote: »
    any good to use as an external SSD ?

    You'll do 550MB/s, or 1GB every 2s. A 5GB movie? 10s. Plenty fast for that kinda setup.


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Homelander wrote: »
    Just so people are aware, mSata is a completely obsolete standard, ......


    This got me wondering if it might be well matched to a completely obsolete :p HP 6550b laptop.

    It has an external eSATA port ( https://support.hp.com/ie-en/document/c02221419 ).

    Cant for the life of me find anything that lets on what disk ports are inside it.
    Any guide as to what to look for if I open it up ?


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    ED E
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    I looked, no dice.

    Which makes sense, the mSata standard was only ratified when that was being designed. Its a decade old, you got a good run. Please let it rest now.


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    styron
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭styron


    0lddog wrote: »
    This got me wondering if it might be well matched to a completely obsolete :p HP 6550b laptop.

    It has an external eSATA port ( https://support.hp.com/ie-en/document/c02221419 ).

    Cant for the life of me find anything that lets on what disk ports are inside it.
    Any guide as to what to look for if I open it up ?


    Service manual with teardown for it and three other models:


    http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03471180


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    @Styron, thats a great find. Thank you for going to the trouble of hunting it down.


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    styron
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭styron


    0lddog wrote: »
    @Styron, thats a great find. Thank you for going to the trouble of hunting it down.


    Olddog, you've probably seen it already, but unfortunately looks like the 6560b WWAN slot is not mSATA capable:


    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/mSata-SSD-Crucial-M500-240GB-to-ProBook-6560b/td-p/3013411


    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/Upgrading-my-Probook-with-mSATA-SSD/td-p/5369857


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    0lddog
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    Also, if I understand correctly the optical drive would have to be given up. Wouldnt want to do that as the main virtue of the machine is that it can cope with so many different input & output forms. ( tho, frustratingly, as far as I can see there is no driver for the SD card slot under Win 7 :mad: )


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    styron
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    0lddog wrote: »
    Also, if I understand correctly the optical drive would have to be given up. Wouldnt want to do that as the main virtue of the machine is that it can cope with so many different input & output forms. ( tho, frustratingly, as far as I can see there is no driver for the SD card slot under Win 7 :mad: )


    Best bet to go the conventional route of changing the original mechanical HD for an SSD and using a 2nd Hard drive caddy for the old drive as on board storage in place of the optical drive (12.7 mm in your HP). You can easily swap between old HD caddy and the optical drive with the system powered off - all the easier if the HP is fairly stationary and you don't need to use the drive retaining screw (eg's. 1/3 price from China 5-6 week wait or quicker by multiple Amazon options)



    With the caddy you can clone old OS to a same size or larger SSD in the caddy and then switch them over.



    The built in Ricoh card reader has a Win 7 driver under Driver-Storage(5)


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    styron wrote: »
    .....
    The built in Ricoh card reader has a Win 7 driver under Driver-Storage(5)


    Thanks again styron, that is a new to me and very useful link :). ( beats me how I didnt manage to come across it during years poking around HPs support sites ). I'll park HDD / SSD upgrade for the time being.


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    Jay Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Jay Dee


    Homelander wrote: »
    You can get significantly faster M2 SSD's for the same price

    How can you tell an M2.SSD ?
    Most of the one's I looked at don't mention it at all!

    Thanks

    Jay


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    Jay Dee wrote: »
    Homelander wrote: »
    You can get significantly faster M2 SSD's for the same price

    How can you tell an M2.SSD ?
    Most of the one's I looked at don't mention it at all!

    Thanks

    Jay

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058044626


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    go4it
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭go4it


    Although i bought it on the day the bargain alert came up, and showed that will be delivered by 4th February, now shows there's a longer delivery window : 11 march -11 april .
    probably way too many orders compared to stock, so they just hope most of the buyers will cancel the order


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