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[XIII37]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a laptop within these parameters and was wondering if you guys could suggest something for me.

1) Price isn't a huge deal (but under 1000$ would be nice)
2) Dual hard drive bay (I would rather keep the CD/DVD bay for the drive itself)
3) 17 inch screen
4) able to use an msata SSD
5) *optional* dedicated graphics

Thanks in advance!

 

[jbaker22]

There is $70 less model from Sager that does not have dedicated graphics, but it is worth going $20 over budget for a 950m.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP6679.html

 

[XIII37]

I could be wrong but that link you gave me looks like its a laptop with just one hdd bay.

 

[jbaker22]

Under customize you can add this in the laptop:

120GB Samsung 850 EVO Series mSATA3 SSD (Storage Drive)

256GB Samsung 850 Pro Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive

120GB Samsung 850 EVO Series SATA3 SSD + Caddy Case

 

[XIII37]

The issue is though that I have 2 laptop hard drives and I want to have them in the machine at all times. The MSATA is a nice touch but I can't really move 1.5 TB worth of work over to one 😛

 

[jbaker22]

Actually, the caddy ssd/hdd means that you can swap the dvd drive for another ssd/hdd.

One changeable 2.5” 9.5mm (H) HDD/SSD, SATA interface
(Factory option) One changeable 12.7mm (H) Super Multi / Blu-ray ODD / Caddy Bay for 2.5" 9.5mm (H) HDD, SATA Interface

(Factory option) One mSATA SSD, SATA interface