What is this slot for under the mini pc?

Post by **PurpleTiger0877** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:16 pm

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Post by **Gabe** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:59 pm

It's to add a 2.5" HDD or SSD to the unit for extra storage, or to even use it as the system drive.

Post by **PurpleTiger0877** » Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:10 pm

Ok thanks

Post by **Gabe** » Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:14 am

PurpleTiger0877 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:10 pm Ok thanks

You're quite welcome.

On my GK1, which has the same type of case as the AK1 and AK1 Pro, I use it for an alternate system drive. My GK1 is a few years old, and it has eMMC for internal storage, which is a good bit slower than the types they use now. So I instead put Windows 10 on a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD in that bottom mounted add on storage carriage, and then Linux Mint on the internal eMMC storage, which works well because it's a lot less speed and resource hungry than Windows. I have Windows drive set to boot by default, but it's easy to boot to the Linux Mint with the F7 boot menu on startup. The best of both worlds.

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