Is there ample room inside for an SSD main drive (OS) and then 2 additional 3.5 drives? Not positive from the specs listed. THANKS!
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I think it might be difficult to have two 3.5 drives in this case. I have one 3.5" 3TB Drive and two 2.5" drives. One is the boot SSD and the second is a notebook drive. The 2.5" drives are sitting where the DID would go which I don't have installed.
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I haven't tried this myself, but if you have an empty expansion card slot, there are brackets that can be used to house a 2.5 inch SSD drive where a card would otherwise go. Amazon sells one made by Syba and one by StarTech. Also if your motherboard supports M.2, you can get your SSD in that form factor and save yourself a bay.
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The short answer is that there is room for it all three drives you mention, though there are not mounting brackets for all three. In this particular case, there are mounting brackets for two 3.5" drives (or two 2.5" drives with adapters), but you can still find spare space elsewhere in the case for your third SSD drive. In my set up, I stuck the SDD on a bracket somewhat behind the optical drive, using double-sided tape for mounting to the case lid. As SSDs do not have any moving parts and don't generate as much heat as spinning drives, this has worked fine.
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It's been awhile since I put my together... I currently have one SSD as the OS Drive, one 3.5 data drive and if I remember correctly it's using up all the space on that mount. There is a 5.25 bay which I'm using for a Blu-Ray drive, but I'd imagine you could get something like a 3.5 to 5.25 adapter and get your 3rd drive in there that way. Page 3 in the manual (6 on the PDF) will give you a better idea of how the insides are laid out: http://www.silverstonetek.com.tw/downloads/Manual/case/Multi-GD05-Manual.pdf
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First of all this is an EXCELLENT SSD. The other SSD I had was a OCZ and it was not even close to this one. I do a lot of picture editing which I think this SSD drive is good for that. Right now I have 2,200 pictures on the drive plus all my programs and I still have 90GB left. I think you could get by with the 128GB but would regret it later. I would suggest the 256gb. Speed difference is the first thing you will notice! My laptop boots up in about 10-12 seconds. I think you have make an excellent choice
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1TB SSD+HDD faster boot and photoshop work well! But Balance must Core i5 or i7 and 16GB Ram important work faster!! IF core i3 and 8GB Ram no possible!!
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Well, its not a typical case. The 5.25" bay converts into two 2.5" bays. Then there's a permanent 2.5" hanging spot just below it. In addition to that, there are two modular slots for either 3.5" or 2.5" spots that have all the necessary mounting parts for them. So in theory you can run 5 SSDs if you want, or you can run 3 hard drives and 1 SSD, or you can run 1 CD-ROM, 1 SSD and 2 hard drives. The 5.25" bay can hold either 1 CD, 1 3.5" or 2 2.5" drives.
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You will only need one spot for the installation. The SSD will be configured by default. I had trouble with the HHD configuration. So, I returned it back to Amazon.
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Yes. I installed one. There's a slot to add a second HDD but it would just put SSD in it.
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There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the... » Read More There won't be enough room for two 3.5" drives, but, if you buy a dual 2.5" drive to 3.5" bay adapter, you can mount two drives. You also can mount one 3.5" drive and tape up to two 2.5" solid-state drives near the front of the chassis (with no moving parts, they don't need to be secured as well), and there are plenty of SATA connectors onboard. Note that the only cooling fan is a very small one on the power supply unit, so I'd recommend going with solid-state drives anyway if heat concerns you. I'm very happy with this purchase, and I use no PCI card, just the onboard video, onboard network, onboard management interface, onboard SATA controller, and software RAID. « Show Less
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I installed a Samsung 840 products ssd and it works great. Also, the included ram is inaccessible, however there are 2 empty slots easily accessible to add up to 8 more gb.
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I don't know why you wish to avoid the SSD, I have heard great things of them. If you stick with HDs, I would select a smaller HD.
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Yes. It looks like you can put 2 drives in if you want. I suggest an SSD as your boot drive, and this one for storage.
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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and... » Read More 4 internal bays with caddies. Bios will support 6 HDD with unauthorized BIOS flash, and the extra 2 HDD can go in the 5 1/4 bays for DVD, etc. To add the 2 drives will take some expertise and extra cables, so I'll leave the details up to your web data mining prowess. It has 2 external USB 2.0 and 1 internal USB 2.0. Mine has 2 4TB WD and an SSD system disk. It runs Win7 and Ubuntu for me. Buy the memory upgrade to 8GB. No hardware problems at all - highly recommended. Not much in the way of graphics and fast CPU, but as a data or media server it is fine. It has 1@1 gig ethernet port, and can be remote booted (not tested by me). « Show Less
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This laptop has two drive bays. I installed a 500Gb SSD as the primary drive and moved the OE 1Tb drive to the secondary bay for data. Works great.
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Although they both have the SATA 3 6GBs header, you can actually fit an SSD into the taller case. Not much point, though, with a 250GB mSATA main drive already there, unless you've got some other mini SATA device. It's never going to be a speed rig with a 15W TDP processor, so halving the SSD response delay by using a RAID0 won't help much, and it's got 4X USB 3 ports for data. The Intel HD Graphics 5000 is stunning. I heartily recommend this machine.
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seperate but the ssd is not your standard 2.5" it is either proprietary or msata/mini pcie
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I agree with what was said already, but also want to point out that you should separate data drives from the OS drive. This is a good drive to put lots of data on, an SSD that is much smaller is ideal to put most programs and the operatingsystem on. SSD's are lightening fast and not very expensive, while this drive is fast for rotating storage, but better to minimize accesses on larger drives so they last longer, and take advantage of their massive storage capability -- evenwith an NAS setup. IMHO.
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I'm going to answer this assuming you know you can repurpose slots (IE: get a kit to mount a 3.5" drive in a DVD slot, mount an SSD on the 3.5" drive sleds, etc). SSD: 2 1TB HD (assuming 3.5" form factor): 3 DVD drive: 2 So yes, 2 SSDs, a 1TB drive (even if it's 2.5", as there are mounting screws to attach a 2.5" drive to a 3.5" sled), and a DVD drive will all fit in this case.