MS750 SSD Drive Upgrade

[fritzcurtis]

Well, I think I have finally cracked the code for the Solid State Drive upgrade. I bought a used MS750 on ebay that had just been sent of to Panurgy for service. It has the 1 TB update done to it. Naturally, the first thing I had to do when I got it was crack the case to see how the heck they did it. They are using a StarTech IDE to SATA adapter model IDE2SAT. You can find it on Amazon for 25 bucks. I then copied their 1 tb drive (they are using a Seagate enterpise edition drive model Consellation ES.3) to a Samsung 840 EVO-series 1 TB 2.5 SATA III Solid State Drive. I used a Silverstone Tek 3.5 to 2.5 Hard Drive Bay Converter to place the drive in to make it look completely stock. I copied the files on my StarTech Drive Replicator (mentioned in an earlier thread).

What I can say is I have been playing music for 3 days now without issue. I used the Samsung drive because not only is it the cheapest SSD drive out at 400 bucks, it is also the slowest which I think actually helps the MS750 from skipping, etc. I know this was an issue from someone else to tried to do this upgrade. I do notice a huge improvement in accessing data and scrolling thru my database of 550 plus CDs. Internet radio also works flawlessly. I will report back with any know issues. By the way their drive was empty from music, so I linked my other MS750 via the remote server connection to listen. I have also loaded a few CDs to listen for any issues. If problems, I can simply load the Panurgy drive back in, but for now what a huge difference.