Can you please state the model number and region you are in.
Thats not the way mine came, not even close.
As for the drive upgrade. The 950 pro does icorporate throttling into the firmware if the temp of SSD exceeds preset limits so you dont cook the SSD. IMO that is a plus. As for taking performance hits because of it, the only way this will happen is if you have zero air flow and pound it with steady writes for 20 minutes. In other words not likely unless you intentionally thrash your drive non stop for no other reason than proving that it will throttle eventually.
They are both compatible with samsung data migration software. Neither is compatible with Samsung Magician or Samsung drivers on this platform.
Thats not the way mine came, not even close.
As for the drive upgrade. The 950 pro does icorporate throttling into the firmware if the temp of SSD exceeds preset limits so you dont cook the SSD. IMO that is a plus. As for taking performance hits because of it, the only way this will happen is if you have zero air flow and pound it with steady writes for 20 minutes. In other words not likely unless you intentionally thrash your drive non stop for no other reason than proving that it will throttle eventually.
They are both compatible with samsung data migration software. Neither is compatible with Samsung Magician or Samsung drivers on this platform.
Gizmotech wrote:
My apologies for not including more informaiton.
The model number is G752VY-DH72. I am in the US, east coast.
Best Regards,
Was your box sealed? Who was the vendor?
I have that exact machine and its not even close to that. Both Drives are GPT. The 1TB 7200RPM is a single NTFS partition and completely empty.
C:\ is a little different for UEFI boot and recovery. Ive migrated mine over to a 512GB drive so some partitions are a bit larger.
499MB recovery partition
260MB EFI partition
The rest is all NTFS with 10% of the total remaining set by me to unallocated for over provisioning of an SSD drive. so last two are 425GB NTFS and 50GB unallocated.
Very odd indeed! It does sound exactly as Clint described with the remnants on the spinner, question is how did they get there. Only thing that comes to mind with a brand new machine in a sealed box is somehow a 7200rpm 1TB drive that had been imaged for another purpose was placed in your machine during assembly. They dont test boot these at the factory. All componets are supposed to be tested on test jigs specific to the device before assembly. The drives are all imaged in bulk 100s at a time.
Cloning that drive is easy with the samsung data migration tool. To make it easiest remove the spinner so its not even in the list. Then install the 950 in the empty M2 slot and boot it up. Launch the samsung migration tool and use the automatic function which will expand the main partition to use all of the 512GB drive. Once done it will prompt for you to shut down. Then just shut down and take out the 256 and put the 512 in its place and reboot. Done. Some like to use the 256 in the other slot and delete the partitions and use it for storage. Mine is in the 950 Pro box and placed in the laptop box for two reasons.Number one, the oh crap factor should the 950 take a dump. I can just plug it back in and im back in business. Secondly if I need to RMA the machine I can do the same and just swap drives. If you format it and the 950 craps you have no recourse but to do a clean install on any replacement media.
I did the same with the 7200rpm spinner. Its in the 1TB 850 EVO box which is also in the laptop box. The 850 Evo is 3-4x faster than the spinner.
5 laptops in the house and all of the boxes from them have the parts that were upgraded put in the boxes and on a shelf in my basement along with other boxes. My wife thinks I'm a hoarder but I proved her wrong. When my onkyo AVR crapped for good I threw away the box along with the receiver! LOL
Cloning that drive is easy with the samsung data migration tool. To make it easiest remove the spinner so its not even in the list. Then install the 950 in the empty M2 slot and boot it up. Launch the samsung migration tool and use the automatic function which will expand the main partition to use all of the 512GB drive. Once done it will prompt for you to shut down. Then just shut down and take out the 256 and put the 512 in its place and reboot. Done. Some like to use the 256 in the other slot and delete the partitions and use it for storage. Mine is in the 950 Pro box and placed in the laptop box for two reasons.Number one, the oh crap factor should the 950 take a dump. I can just plug it back in and im back in business. Secondly if I need to RMA the machine I can do the same and just swap drives. If you format it and the 950 craps you have no recourse but to do a clean install on any replacement media.
I did the same with the 7200rpm spinner. Its in the 1TB 850 EVO box which is also in the laptop box. The 850 Evo is 3-4x faster than the spinner.
5 laptops in the house and all of the boxes from them have the parts that were upgraded put in the boxes and on a shelf in my basement along with other boxes. My wife thinks I'm a hoarder but I proved her wrong. When my onkyo AVR crapped for good I threw away the box along with the receiver! LOL
Glad to hear it all worked out for you.
That does make you feel a little leery and even question if you got a refurbished unit instead of brand new. I cant say for certain exactly how ASUS does it but I have worked on automation equipment in both Dell and Compaq when they were still around. Nothing was tested after final assembly. If they replaced the drive after the fact its because it failed when someone bought it and tried to start it and it didn't work.
Unfortunately even amazon is slipping with the riff raff they let in anymore. You have to make sure they are legit. I try to limit my purchases there to sold by amazon and if not at least shipped my amazon and prime eligible so I can send it right back. Not long ago I bought a slim profile bluray player off of amazon and it wasn't prime eligible. Everything looked good. packing looked brand new, put it in, it was a DVD player. Went back the same day.
That does make you feel a little leery and even question if you got a refurbished unit instead of brand new. I cant say for certain exactly how ASUS does it but I have worked on automation equipment in both Dell and Compaq when they were still around. Nothing was tested after final assembly. If they replaced the drive after the fact its because it failed when someone bought it and tried to start it and it didn't work.
Unfortunately even amazon is slipping with the riff raff they let in anymore. You have to make sure they are legit. I try to limit my purchases there to sold by amazon and if not at least shipped my amazon and prime eligible so I can send it right back. Not long ago I bought a slim profile bluray player off of amazon and it wasn't prime eligible. Everything looked good. packing looked brand new, put it in, it was a DVD player. Went back the same day.
