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madokie

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4. Looks like I could just lay the SSD drive on the bottom of the case if I wanted to

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 11:51 PM

Feb 2014

I have the SSD mounted in a 2.5 to 3.5 converter tray. I was looking and it looks like I can simply lay it in the bottom of the enclosure and it shouldn't cause any problems as the computer will not be being moved around any. when I connect the sata cable up will I have to connect it to the sata port that the drive in it is connected to to make sure it boots to it It has 4 sata ports on the mother board. The hard drive is connected to sata 0 and the dvd drive is connected to sata 2, sata 1 and sata 3 have nothing connected to them. I'm thinking I connect the ssd to the sata 0, move the hard drive to sata 2 and move the dvd drive to sata 1. would that be right or would I need to move the hard drive to sata 1 and leave the dvd drive where it is on sata 2

Again thanks

the sata drive I have is a kingston sata 3

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Would I be able to put linux on this machine [View all] madokie Feb 2014 OP

Sure, just make sure to get the amd64 rather than x86 version of whatever distro you use Recursion Feb 2014 #1

Thanks. madokie Feb 2014 #2

Shhh Recursion Feb 2014 #3

Looks like I could just lay the SSD drive on the bottom of the case if I wanted to madokie Feb 2014 #4

You may defacto7 Feb 2014 #5

I guess I am tired. Sorry to double post. defacto7 Feb 2014 #6

You may have to screw with the BIOS settings. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #7

Thank you very much. madokie Mar 2014 #8

Is there a mother board that doesn't have this UEFI bios madokie Mar 2014 #9

All the new boards have it. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #10

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