have a toshiba quosmio x75-a with two hard drives will I be able to install a ssd drive without sacrificing one hard drive?
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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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If you have 2 internal drives now you would have to replace one of them with the SSD drive unless you run the SSD Externally .
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Yes. This is for a desktop case where you would normally have 1 3.5 inch hard drive. You can put two SSD hard drives in place of 1 3.5 inch drive.
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Sure you can, but why would you? This drive is ideal for a laptop that has ONE HDD slot. For a desktop, you would be better off buying a 256GB SSD and a 1TB storage drive, for around the same price as this. The reason for this, is that unless you install EVERYTHING on the 120GB SSD partition, the 1TB side will continually spin up to access something and will wear out much faster than if you just had a separate storage option.
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No, It is a single drive and has a single parition. The drive is simply a hybrid method (SSD/HDD) of storing memory.
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A regular 2.5 sata from an old laptop can work. But the ssd gives fast boot times
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The old Compaq supported IDE drives, whereas this supports a SATA interface... this SSD may not fit into your machine, unless there are some converters or adapters available. However, even if the converters or adapters are there, the trasnfer speeds would be that native to the interface you connect this drive to. I think, in your case the best would be to use it as an external drive.
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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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mSata SSD. I installed one, it was very easy, apart from repositioning the heat sync, which was just lightly tricky.Note that doing this might void you warranty (check the maker's online documentation.).
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No, this is SATA; IDE is defunct. You can use that old drive as a paper weight. Also get a Solid State Drive and enjoy about 10x improvement in hard drive speed. SSDs are worth every penny.
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Looking over the User guide on Lenovo's site, I don't believe you can. It does not show enough room within the case to add a second HDD or SSD. That being said, you could always use one of the SATA to USB 3.0 conversions sold here on Amazon and use your old HD as an external drive.
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No. You have to replace the drive with a tray that holds the second hard drive.
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I looked up your specs, and the toshiba you have does use a sata1 drive . I have used the sata2 drives in a standard sata1 laptop setup before . It should be backwards compatable for your laptop.
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I am using a Hitachi Deskstar 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200RPM SATA III 6Gbps 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive I also ordered from amazon. I don't see any reason why you couldn't use an SSD.
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This computer have 2 hard drive slots, and one is empty when you get the computer, which means you can add an SSD without replacing the HDD.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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Yes, you can. Also included are two bay areas, so you can install both the SSD and the HDD that came with it.
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I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am.