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Replacement for the Liteon 32 GB 2242 M.2 SSD Cache on XPS 8900.
Has anyone successfully upgraded the Liteon 32 GB 2242 M.2 SSD Cache on their XPS 8900?
I have a Dell XPS 8900 that I purchased a few months ago and want to upgrade the Liteon 32 GB M.2 2242 SSD. My system has the 2TB 7200 rpm Hard Drive + 32GB M.2 SSD Cache, 32 GB of memory, and the i7-6700k processor running Intel RST with acceleration mode set to "enhanced".
It is my understanding that the 32 GB Liteon 2242 M.2 SSD is being used as a HDD Cache. Also, according to Intel, the maximum size for a HDD cache that RST supports is 64 GB. So, I would like to replace the existing Liteon M.2 drive with a 64 GB M.2 SSD drive.
I found that Transcend has a 64 GB M.2 2242 SSD drive (TS64GMTS400) and would like to know if this will work. Amazon has it for less than $40; https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-MTS400-Solid-State-TS64GMTS400/dp/B00KLTPSKM/.
I am not a hardware person, so I would also like to know if the Transcend drive will require any additional hardware or software other than what was delivered with my Dell PC? For example, will I need to replace the Dell drive board that the Liteon CS1-SP32-11 is mounted to?
Thank you very much for your help.
ejn63
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August 22nd, 2016 14:00
You're not going to gain much by doubling the cache size. Better: Install a 256G SSD and install the OS to it, leaving the hard drive for storage only. That will appreciably speed up the system.
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November 25th, 2016 08:00
We played with 64 and 80's both from Dell machines and although they worked fine the difference was extremely limited and not worth the bother for the tiny increase in performance and of course it would invalidate any guarantee if the machine is still covered in any way
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May 16th, 2018 14:00
So can you replace this card with a 250 or 500 GB PCIe card