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G46VW owners, what msata ssd do you have installed?

joelswatson
Level 7
heya,

my g46vw arrived today, so i took it to work, to strip it down and install new memory, wifi card, 2.5" hdd and msata card.

but after i had stripped it all down, i noticed that it is not a full sized msata ssd, but a half height msata ssd slot, so i jump on ebay and the only one i can find is one by sandisk, so i thought i would ask the forums what they have if they have a ssd in their msata slot.

on the other hand, if you dont have an ssd in the msata slot, what hard drive are you using?

i was going to have a mushkin 240gb ssd in the msata slot for windows, and a 1tb wd blue in the 2.5" bay for storage, but no luck.

i also have a g55vw with a mushkin 240gb msata ssd, with a 1tb wd blue in the 2.5" bay, and another 1tb wd blue in the optical bay in a caddy.

i did see a video on youtube showing you how to strip down the g46vw and he had a full sized msata, but when i tried to do that, i couldnt get the motherboard back in correctly, cause the msata ssd was blocking something on the bottom case.

has anyone been able to get a full sized card in the slot?

cheers for your help
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dclanz
Level 10
I've seen the same Sandisk msata you spoke of and recommended it to another member since it is the correct half height (it's on Amazon) but in my case I just replaced the 750GB HDD with a Samsung 840 500GB SSD a little while after I got my laptop.