hey, I just saw this, I'll hop on my laptop, so I can post a proper reply...
I have 4 drives in my 751jy
I have 4 drives in my 751jy
Using my phone to upload
brb pc
That is aeolisio's bracket with a Samsung 950 256GB, and a 850 Pro 512GB under it.
You will need to do a modification to the drive that will sit under the NVME, other wise - you will not be able to fit anything under it.
I highlighted the area in a picture above. U shaped Red.
The 850 Pro chassis will be unusable unless you have an Angle Grinder. It is metal.
You will also be voiding warranty.
Have a pentalobe driverset before you start. I threaded the head when I was rushing to do mine, and it added an hour to the labour. (I had to file a flat head into the sheared pentalobe head)
If you're lucky - ASUS would have configured the secondary SATA ports for full SATA III 6GB/s. Otherwise - it will be running 3GB/s.
There may be a configuration limitation to the HM87. I'm still looking at it all while I'm building the Custom Windows 10/Server 2016 Recovery for the G751.
RAID Configuration is working for me right now on the Desktop test build I have - but at the moment - the configuration in BIOS that has the best results for error is AHCI mode.
You will be able to use almost any drive - however - I recommend low power drives - the G751 - will - WILL throw errors enumerating drives if they are all spindle drives internal and then you start to connect drives via USB. The best I've managed to attach is 5 external drives before the controller had a spit. I'm not sure if it's because of lack of power driving the USB ports - or something else.
When you start tinkering yourself - the last image where I circled a screw is the screw you can leave out for the Optic drive.
I leave it out.
The Caddy you will need is a caddy that is 9mm or less.( Actually... get a 8mm or 7mm just to be safe if they have those... I have 2 sitting on my desk, and I don't have a ruler near by or a caliper) Anything greater, and you will not be able to Plug-n-play with that screw out, and you will need to remove the chassis to access the optic bay.
Um... if I forgotten something I'll add to this post later
Here's a link to the G751 project I'm currently doing, where I'm trying to fault find stuff related to the G751
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?94784-G751JY-Windows-Server-2016-All-Drivers-amp-Hardware-...
These are the SATA Ports as Windows sees them
\_SB.PCI0.RP05 - PCIE NVMe
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0 - Primary Bay
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT2 - Optical
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT3 - Secondary Bay
OPTIC | SECONDARY | PRIMARY[NVME] - Layout looking at the picture with the screw circled
brb pc
That is aeolisio's bracket with a Samsung 950 256GB, and a 850 Pro 512GB under it.
You will need to do a modification to the drive that will sit under the NVME, other wise - you will not be able to fit anything under it.
I highlighted the area in a picture above. U shaped Red.
The 850 Pro chassis will be unusable unless you have an Angle Grinder. It is metal.
You will also be voiding warranty.
Have a pentalobe driverset before you start. I threaded the head when I was rushing to do mine, and it added an hour to the labour. (I had to file a flat head into the sheared pentalobe head)
If you're lucky - ASUS would have configured the secondary SATA ports for full SATA III 6GB/s. Otherwise - it will be running 3GB/s.
There may be a configuration limitation to the HM87. I'm still looking at it all while I'm building the Custom Windows 10/Server 2016 Recovery for the G751.
RAID Configuration is working for me right now on the Desktop test build I have - but at the moment - the configuration in BIOS that has the best results for error is AHCI mode.
You will be able to use almost any drive - however - I recommend low power drives - the G751 - will - WILL throw errors enumerating drives if they are all spindle drives internal and then you start to connect drives via USB. The best I've managed to attach is 5 external drives before the controller had a spit. I'm not sure if it's because of lack of power driving the USB ports - or something else.
When you start tinkering yourself - the last image where I circled a screw is the screw you can leave out for the Optic drive.
I leave it out.
The Caddy you will need is a caddy that is 9mm or less.( Actually... get a 8mm or 7mm just to be safe if they have those... I have 2 sitting on my desk, and I don't have a ruler near by or a caliper) Anything greater, and you will not be able to Plug-n-play with that screw out, and you will need to remove the chassis to access the optic bay.
Um... if I forgotten something I'll add to this post later
Here's a link to the G751 project I'm currently doing, where I'm trying to fault find stuff related to the G751
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?94784-G751JY-Windows-Server-2016-All-Drivers-amp-Hardware-...
These are the SATA Ports as Windows sees them
\_SB.PCI0.RP05 - PCIE NVMe
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0 - Primary Bay
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT2 - Optical
\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT3 - Secondary Bay
OPTIC | SECONDARY | PRIMARY[NVME] - Layout looking at the picture with the screw circled
Guys I'm confused with the info read from HWinfo64. Alright guys please find the attached screenshots from HWinfo64. Let me know what you guys think? Is my second bay is SATA III? Right now is equipped with 1TB firecuda SSHD.
I only have 2 identical drives, so I'm not able to swap the drives to find out about second bay if it's being SATA II or III.
Thanks
I only have 2 identical drives, so I'm not able to swap the drives to find out about second bay if it's being SATA II or III.
Thanks
