[Solved] MSATA

Hi all.

I'm hoping to find a 14+" notebook with a 2.5" HDD and a SSD mSATA.
SSD mSATA for the OS & apps, the HDD for data.
Possible?

I read many notebook specs and they say nothing about mSATA.
Even if it did have one, are those usually lacking a normal 2.5" bay?
Or I need some monster size 18" that has 2 full-size 2.5" bays?

thanks, I hope to understand this better.

Do you need OD?

if you need a full size laptop HDD then getting msata along with it is kind of a waste

as pyree pointed out if you don't need an optical drive you can easily install an HDD into OD bay and have an SSD as a primary OS drive.

if you need an OD you'll need something like at least 17" laptop for it have space for dual HDDs. Hmm, although, maybe MSI had a 15" with dual HDD bays, cannot recall

There is no confusion on our part.
Just offering options.

Ok, now we're getting someplace.
But it still seems unlikely that I'll find mSATA and a 2.5" bay and a OD in a 14" notebook.
The high-end notebooks is the direction I'm looking.

I found the Thinkpad Edge 420s on newegg and it does what I was describing.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834246108
But this link didn't say anything about mSATA. It seems I'll need to a very thorough search on every notebook - unless someone like WR2 just happens to know of one..

Again, thanks for the help guys. Just trying to understand this.

there's hybrid drives that combine mssd with hdd in one package, which is why it fits into a regular 2.5" bay, but those ssds are typically very small, no more than 50gb.

I also seen drives that use ssd for something like buffer memory of 2-6gb in order to increase the performance of the HDD by writing random ques to ssd first and then to HDD in sequence.

Looks like what WR2 found should fit your needs.

If all is like the post above, then I can close the thread and call it solved
thanks for the help !

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