I got a M4 64 GB msata and performance has been excellent . My laptop boots in 7 seconds on Win 8 x64This is an old thread, bumping it up. I am looking for a mSATA drive, the new Intel ones available yet ?
I'm sorry, how do you have a mSATA slot on that motherboard?
And no, mine isn't marketed as a Readycache drive, but as a regular mSATA SSD.
FWIW, I've run a 4000+ with a SATA2 SSD and even that beats the crap out of a 2011 MBP with a far better processor and more RAM.
Sorry for the noob question, aren't all laptop HDDs/SSDs mSATA ?
Sorry I didn't realize we were talking about mSATA drives! I have an Asus M2A-VM which has SATA2 ports. Planning to buy a cheap 30/60GB SATA drive for speed! Dont care about transfer rates as sata2 is not going to saturate the bandwidth of the drive. As long as the drive gives me no headache, I'll be very happy. My budget is 5K. Thanks for your time!
cranky did you check the supplier / sellers name on the link ......
Don't riddle. Make your point, because we can't understand what you are trying to say.
In India prices are too high for msata . Msata can either be used as cache drive or normal boot drive . Msata is not only available in smaller laptops/netbooks but the high end ones also . All high end ones and business laptops have this 2 HDD configuration , One msata and other normal 2.5 HDD . One of the HP laptops has 3 HDD , 2 normal 2.5 and one msata . It give a fast boot drive and separate HDD for data . Get a M4 from US using SNS or ishop and then also it will be way cheaper then India . 32GB will be less for win7/win8 . Both these OS require minimum 64 GB for smooth functioning . Win XP is fine with 32GB but then it might not be able to use the newer functions like TRIM and others
All laptops which have cache drive are basically a msata SSD with a intel software configuration to make it act as cache drive . If you disable it first from intel software GUI and then can install the OS also on the so called cache drive . Sandisk have their own cache software .