Busta Bloodnut Posted Saturday at 08:59 PM Posted Saturday at 08:59 PM My main m18x r2's OS is on a NVME SSD and want to know if I would be able to use the main HDD 3 slot ribbon tor extra storage for my OS since that HDD port is not being used. Is there any way to do that? My rigs: (I collect laptops like Boomers collect muscle cars, though I'm VERY selective) My Alienware Armada: Alienware m18x r2 (Primary): Intel Core i7-3940xm•Nvidia Quadro P5000m•NVME Samsung 990 Pro 2TB•Samsung 840 EVO mSata 1TB• 32gb 1600mhz Alienware m18x r2 (Secondary): Intel Core i7-3940xm•Nvidia Quadro P4000m•NVME Samsung 990 Pro 1TB•Samsung mSata 1TB•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m18x r2 (W.I.P. and yeah I know I got a problem, but it was mad cheap lol): Intel Core i7-3720qm•Dual AMD Radeon 7970•No SSD/HDD•No Ram Alienware m17x r4: Intel Core i7-3630qm (3940xm coming soon!)•Nvidia GeForce GTX 980m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m15x: Intel Core i7-940xm•Nvidia GeForce GTX 980m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m14x r2: Intel Core i7-3610qm (3940xm Coming soon also!)•Nvidia GeForce GT 650m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m11x r3: Intel Core i7-2617m•Nvidia GeForce GT 540m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz *Only getting the latest/best revision of each model from this generation with the exception of the m17x r2 (coming soon hopefully) which is different enough from the r4 for me to want* My Non Alienware Fleet: Acer Aspire 7741gz | HP G71 | HP G72 | HP Pavilion G7 | HP Probook 450 G1 | Dell Latitude E5530 | Dell Latitude 3540 | Dell Studio 1749 | Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 | Fujitsu Lifebook Ah530 | Toshiba Satellite P755 *I maxed out every rig on here as best as I can lol* Works in progress: Lenovo G50-80 | HP Envy DV7-7000 Series | HP 15 BA Series | Dell Latitude E6420 | HP Probook 4530s | My 3rd Alienware m18x r2
Maxware79 Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago Firstly, love your AW collection and upgrades. That is some serious dedication to the cause. You can use the extra drive slots for general storage but I believe the only way to have them directly linked to your OS drive would be to set the drives in RAID. This wouldn't be ideal as you will lose the NVME speeds. Although, I'm just looking at something called JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and maybe this is what you're looking to do. It looks like it can combine different physical disks into one volume without using RAID. Alienware Aurora R15 - i9-13900KF - RTX 4090 - 32GB DDR5 Alienware X51 - i7-3770 - GTX 1060 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware M17x R3 - i7-2760QM - GTX 580M - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Area 51 ALX - i7-975 Extreme - GTX 980 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R2 - i7-3770K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 1060 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3
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