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Hi all,
I recently purchased a Chillblast Helix laptop, really happy with it so far even if I think keeping the heat at bay during high gaming loads may be a bit of a challenge.
Anyway, drives currently are a 120GB mSata Samsung Evo 840 which runs Win 8.1 (64), plus a Seagate Hybrid 1TB Drive for general storage.
The thing is, the MSI 1772 chassis can handle up to 3 mSata drives plus the one regular 2.5 " drive bay.
Ideally, what I would like to do is buy 2 more of the 120GB Evo mSata drives, then use 2 of them in a Raid 0 configuration giving me 240GB fast storage which should be enough to handle the OS and a few games at any one time.
The third mSata drive I would like to keep separate and use as a Linux distro, probably either Mint or Ubuntu.
My question is whether this is all easily possible and if it is, how best to go about it.
I have dual booted plenty of laptops in the past, but that has always left me with the Grub bootloader waiting fo me to select which OS to load.
What I would like this time is to boot Windows 8 (around 10 secs to desktop) and then only select the alternative SSD if F* is keyed for example.
Hope that makes some sense, its very late and i've dozed off several times already typng it out
Thanks
Lee
I recently purchased a Chillblast Helix laptop, really happy with it so far even if I think keeping the heat at bay during high gaming loads may be a bit of a challenge.
Anyway, drives currently are a 120GB mSata Samsung Evo 840 which runs Win 8.1 (64), plus a Seagate Hybrid 1TB Drive for general storage.
The thing is, the MSI 1772 chassis can handle up to 3 mSata drives plus the one regular 2.5 " drive bay.
Ideally, what I would like to do is buy 2 more of the 120GB Evo mSata drives, then use 2 of them in a Raid 0 configuration giving me 240GB fast storage which should be enough to handle the OS and a few games at any one time.
The third mSata drive I would like to keep separate and use as a Linux distro, probably either Mint or Ubuntu.
My question is whether this is all easily possible and if it is, how best to go about it.
I have dual booted plenty of laptops in the past, but that has always left me with the Grub bootloader waiting fo me to select which OS to load.
What I would like this time is to boot Windows 8 (around 10 secs to desktop) and then only select the alternative SSD if F* is keyed for example.
Hope that makes some sense, its very late and i've dozed off several times already typng it out
Thanks
Lee