Recent content by joshuatheman555

based on some google image searches, there is only 1 2.5" drive bay in that machine. you could: 1) swap out the hdd for an ssd and get an external USB enclosure for the hdd 2) If you don't need or use the optical drive, you can get an adapter bracket to put a 2.5" drive in. ->...

More ram won't really help the "feel" of the operating system. Everything will feel laggy and slow with the OS on the HDD. An SSD for the OS is hands down the way to go. the 8TB HDD should just be storage. There are utilities to clone drives and such, but a fresh install is way better.

That slot is probably for a Wifi card, or perhaps an SSD cache. Similar form factor as an m.2 2280 ssd, just shorter - 2230. https://rog.asus.com/articles/maximus-motherboards/buying-an-m-2-ssd-how-to-tell-which-is-which/

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I am going to confidently assume that the laptop only has one 2.5" drive bay. If you want to put your z400s in, you will need to take out the 1TB sata ssd. The only way to keep your 1TB HDD is to get a different SSD all together, one that is an M.2...

So the Z400s comes in all the form factors you could want. But honestly there are way better choices available. If I google the right version of your laptop, it supports NVMe SSD's.

probably yes... Is your laptop config an SSD + HDD combo? or is the SSD the only drive in the laptop? If the case is the latter, it is most likely that the SSD is an mSATA or M.2 form factor. I googled real quick and this laptop is pretty new right?

You could probably just use windows disk management to "extend" partitions. Delete that second partition that was created, and then extend your your original partition to fill the rest of the space.