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    Question mSATA Cards

    Just a few questions to those of you in the know about these problematic mSATA cards.


    1. What size are the mSATA card used on the MX-4070 (or generally on the newer Sharp models)?
    2. Are you replacing the mSATA card with a genuine Sharp part or have you found a better retail alternative?
    3. Have you guy's been primarily replacing the mSATA card? or have you just been formatting and restoring them from a backup image?


    Cheers.

    I've not any problems at the moment, all our Sharp's are running fine on the latest firmware.
    But I was thinking it may be a good idea to start making back ups at the PDI / workshop setup stage.
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    Re: mSATA Cards

    We were replacing them with new Sharp OEM mSata chips but thanks to a post on this forum we are now using HDDRaw copy and reformatting mSata chips. Had 3 go bad in the last 6 months. Was able to reformat 2 of them without any problems and tested on a shop copier. 1 I am still having issues with and figure it is just toast. Pretty straight forward operation as long as you have a good chip to copy from!! Size of the chip is 16Gb.

    Good luck.

    Bil

    Will also be trying this approach on SD cards in the near future.

    Sharp MX-M365N Corrupt SD Card

    Here is the link to that post if you do not already have it.

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    Re: mSATA Cards

    16Gb, that's pretty small.

    I not seen one of the Sharp mSATA cards in the flesh yet, but I would assume a enclosure like this would be suitable for cloning/backup purposes?
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    Re: mSATA Cards

    Looks correct. We purchased the USB 2.0 as not all of our computers have a 3.0 connector.

    Good luck.

    Bil

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    Re: mSATA Cards

    You can fit any as long as its bigger in capacity so 64g are quite cheap to buy this is same with hdd drives also

    so some machines use 320g some use 500g hdd so I just stock 500 fit to both machines makes life more easy lol

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    Thumbs up Re: mSATA Cards

    Ordered.

    Next time we PDI/setup a new Sharp in the workshop I'll have a play.

    Cheers.
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