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On the new top-of- the-line Microsoft Surface Studio, with a 128gb SSD/2tb hybrid drive, can it be user-upgraded to a full 1tb/2tb SSD drive? I read The read/write speeds of the Studio’s hybrid drive were around 200-300mbps and the Surface Book laptop was 1.6+gbps, which makes the laptop hard drive 5 times faster than the new Studio.
Yes, both of the drives are upgradable. One you’ve replaced one or both of the drives, follow the instruction below. Download the recovery image for Microsoft Surface from Microsoft’s website Format your flash drive in FAT32 format and extract the content of the zipped file to the flash drive. Step 1: Shut down your Surface. Step 2: Insert the bootable USB drive into the USB port on your Surface. Step 3: Press and hold the volume-down button on Surface. Step 4: While holding down the volume-down button, press and release the power button. Step 5: Follow the on-screen instructions to boot from your USB drive. English (United States) > US > Troubleshoot > Reset your PC > Next > Yes, repartition the drives > Just remove my files > Next
I did it and wrote my experience here: http://cesardelatorre.azurewebsites.net/…
Should be good to go but with a high price tag:( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M8A…
Is there a way to do this with external USB 3.0 SSD drives? I’d like to avoid physical modification of the box, but the thing is just SO slow with this ‘hybrid’ drive…. Chris
Works perfect with: SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus NVme M.2 (2TB) and SanDiskUltra 3D SSD 4TB. Samsung replaces former RAID System (“both discs” of the original Studio) - did a backup with Acronis True IMage.And the SanDisk is now my second drive (D). Studio ist now PERFECT again…. absolutely worth the money.
I did it. I installed a sata ssd, and planning to use m.2 for external graphics.
An update from 2021: Successfully upgraded both drives to SSDs and installed windows on M.2 one. Did not have to do anything with additional intel RST drivers. Booted from Win10 installation USB drive (with the latest Win10 version available). Both drives were visible and accessible from the start.
