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October 20th, 2013 21:00
mSATA Drive for Inspiron 5720
I have a Inspiron 17R 5720. I would like to add a mSATA drive as a second drive and would like to make it the primary drive to boot up from. Is this a supported configuration for this model.
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DELL-Ravi Ch
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October 20th, 2013 22:00
Hi mahmud69,
Yes you will be able to configure mSATA drive on Dell Inspiron 5720. You can refer to Pg.no 35 from the link below for installing the mSATA drive on the computer.
http://bit.ly/H5HQaZ
Please let me know if this helps.
hgrewal
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November 20th, 2013 07:00
Were you able to do it? I am facing the same issue. I have installed mSata. Although, I can see it as a hard drive from within Windows but It is not visible as an option on the bios boot settings. I would appreciate your help.
istbno
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January 25th, 2014 02:00
I made an exhaustive research of this matter and I can say, that at this time, whith the latest version of BIOS you can not make MSATA SSD disk bootable from BIOS on Dell Inspiron 5720. It can be used only as a cash disk or data disk.
BUT:
There is an option when you CAN boot from SSD disk. And it will really speed up your laptop, but this is the method that we call in Ukraine as "through the ass", sorry for my language.
You can install Windows on your standard hard drive, install all the drivers. Than clone the disk to your SSD drive with Acronis soft or any other. After that you have to edit your Windows Boot Manager by bcdedit.exe tool and make your Windows boot from SSD.
Windows will really boot from SSD, it will boot fast. After that you can install all heavy programs on your SSD and use your laptop with SSD as a boot drive and also have your 1TB disk as data disk.
BUT:
1) you can not delete Windows on your standard hard drive
2) windows will permanently read some data from your standard hard drive.
AFTERWORD
Actually when I bought Dell Inspiron 5720 I already had SATA III SSD Intell 60 GB drive. And first I installed it as a main HDD and at that moment I understood that I would never use standard HDD. Everything worked so fast, the laptop was quite (if you dont use heavy soft and the fan does not work, it is just no sound, cool). Soon I bought Intel MSATA 120 GB as I wanted to have it as boot disk and additionaly use my 1TB HDD which I had when I bought the laptop.
Having spent tow nights I found out the only way how to do it. I did it easyly. It took couple of hours.
BUT:
1) the system still uses standard HDD, which means that you loose your ultimate speed in comparison when you use SSD only
2) after two month of quite practise I understood that HDD noise can annoy
3) battery life became shorter (with SSD only laptop lived 4+ hours (office soft + Internet)
After ONE day of practise I gave up this idea and bought Intell SSD 240 GB, installed it as a main hard drive and also bought 2TB external HDD for heavy data and backup. Now Im just enjoying my laptop.