Hello, I just bought this laptop, with the top of the line model, 3d with the blu ray, it comes with the 32Gb msata + 1tb hd, i have 2 questions
1. can i put a SSD into bay slot number 2 which is currently empty, like a 64gb one and install windows on there and boot from the 2nd bay, wipe clean the 1tb, and still have the 32gb msata cache'ing the 1tb hard drive using the intel technology?
2. if i can turn the msata into a bootable drive which Ive seen people do and shown with steps by steps by putting in say this, Plextor M5M PX-128M5M mSATA 128GB SATA III, and then putting in 2 new 7200 RPM sata-iii drives like these (i know it only does SATA II but at these prices its cheaper + its backwards compatible), HGST Travelstar 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200RPM SATA II 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (it is 9.5mm is that ok?), into bay 1 and bay 2, will that be the same speed than booting off an SSD in bay 2 in question 1 or is booting off msata + 2tbs the way to go?
I ask because in this 2nd method I can have the msata as bootable, and have 2 TBs of 7200 rpm fast drives for data and storage but if I do the first option, I only have a 1 ssd as boot and 1 tb as data since the msata is for the cache
any help would be appreciated ty