Can I take an SSD from a standard port and put it into this card without making any changes, or do I need to reformat it once it's on the card?
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If youre talking about a motherboard port..you can put it on the card without any changes. your mobo/software should see it fine. You may need to modify your boot sequence.
781145
Once it is on the card, it should work like any SATA connection, but faster.
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Yes sir you can. Although this is possible, working with the internal hardware of any laptop can be sensitive work due to the obvious, you don't want to harm your machine! There are two courses of action I would suggest regarding this matter. 1) Bring your machine with your additional purchased SSD to a local PC workshop near you and get an estimate from them on how much it would cost to have a professional install (I would not send my machine out of state via mail to have it worked on due to shipping fees, insurance etc... 2) Research the matter online through you tube videos and forums and such, until you feel comfortable with the process and idea of doing it yourself (this is NOT an impossible feat by a long shot!) Here is one such video -&gt; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJ7r2Ir4GU Of course there are other methods of action but these are the two that I would suggest.
328542
You should be able to clone an SSD with this adapter, but some folks have reported issues with booting after doing so. I suspect it could be a sector alignment issue, use a smart cloning software and it should work.
634579
Yes, provided the SSD has as much space as you need. I moved the data folders (documents, pictures, music, etc.) onto a standard hard drive, then cloned just the operating system and most-used programs onto the SSD. That gives fast boot and response from the SSD, but cheaper bulk storage on the standard hard drive.
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Yes. You can. Once you install the mSATA into your adapter it behaves just like a regular SSD and you can put it in a docking station, usb adapter, whatever you want just as if you had an SSD. Bear in mind that the lack of a plastic enclosure, and therefore lack of mechanical guide, will make it necessary for you to guide the adapter for mating into the SATA connectors by hand. I hope that this helps.
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Update: You need to be CERTAIN the ssd is MICRO sata, and the other connection is STANDARD SATA, as I see it. My mistake was not even knowing there was such a thing as SLIMLINE sata, but WTH... Six bucks...? NBD... I'd send you mine, but I never get anything done. 'Buried somewhere anyway...
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It should be, although I seem to remember it as formatted NTFS to start with. If your build supports standard SATA interface, you should not have any problems. It has been a very reliable drive for my Windows system. The only caveat is that an SSD does require periodic "garbage collection" by the operating system. You might want to check if your intended OS will support this. This would apply to any SSD that you may be considering.
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Steffan is correct. Look up overprovisioning in google. Sandisk and Intel does this for you while companies like Samsung expect you to just partition the drive smaller or use their tool to shrink the drive if you install it using the Max size. You need to over provision an ssd for it to work properly, but some companies want you to see that 256GB on the box and think "Well, that is bigger than 240GB, Ill get the bigger one"
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Untrue, but there is a useable life consideration. The write once and now it's unusable concept refers to nonvolatile ROM. There are sectors that will go bad on the SSD and those are not recoverable. The idea is not to reformat an SSD, but to simply erase it before you re-use it.
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Sorry, I don't understand the question. But if you add the Data Doubler, you can put your SSD in either the upper or lower slot. Or you could put a pair of SSD's in the machine (or a pair of conventional spinning drives for that matter). You're really just getting the parts you need to leverage the space that was left for a 2nd drive. I hope that helps.
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Yes, you can. That is how I use it. Hovewer, if you use brand new Ssd drive, you need to initialize it first from Disk Manager on Windows, only then it will be visible as the new drive with a letter when you connect USB cable.I used MyDigital ssd usb3.0 as satatousb adapter and it works perfectly fine on my five different computers.
740288
Pretty easy to do I placed Ina 128 sad from Kingston ... I believe any ssd on the market is compatible
1872239
Mine didnt come with a cdrom drive. So i guess you can put it there. Just find a adapter or housing for it. Ther drive bays are for 3.5 drives. Most ssd comes with 3.5 adapters. But if you need the space use the cdrom slot. And get an external dvd reader.
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My SSD came with a migration CD with software which worked flawlessly for me. It transferred from my HDD while in Windows, then automatically set the boot after restart. With many worries about aligning the partition, turning on TRIM, etc. I can say this was one of the most worry free SSD installs I've done.
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I've had a PC with the same card as you. I going to assume your motherboard has the port big enough, and you have the power supply for it. Other than that it's as simple at removing the old and putting the new one in.
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You should be able to. I don't know if you would be able to boot from it though, which is the purpose of the ssd. That seems to be a pretty old machine. go to reddit.com/r/buildapc they can give you better tech info, and help you build a much better pc cheaply. Amazon also sells a wide variety of good processors, and motherboards, that can help with this.
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Can't say for certain, however, I recently cloned an 80gb SSD to a 240 using it without a hitch, very straightforward and simple to use.