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**Video Poker, Keno, Slots, 21** Gaming machines => IGT AVP (Including G20,G23) => Topic started by: Yoeddy1 on December 14, 2022, 09:13:52 AM
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Hi guys,
My G23 has an HDD in it, and I happen to have a few 1TB SSDs that I need to find a use for. Any concerns dropping this size of a SSD into this machine? I would imagine faster boot up times are the main benefit here? Any other performance increases by going to SSD?
Thanks,
Jason
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Go for it. It should help all games and bonus rounds load faster. Max out the memory to two 2GB sticks if not already. I have extra 2GB sticks if you need any.
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Go for it. It should help all games and bonus rounds load faster. Max out the memory to two 2GB sticks if not already. I have extra 2GB sticks if you need any.
Will do, thanks man! I’m already maxed out on RAM.
Jason
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If you have a smaller size SSD, use it. You'll run out of NVRAM long before you'd ever be able to fill a 1TB SSD drive.
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If you have a smaller size SSD, use it. You'll run out of NVRAM long before you'd ever be able to fill a 1TB SSD drive.
Yeah, I thought about that too, but these were all laying around doing nothing, so I just wanted to make sure that 1TB wouldn’t be too large or cause a problem with performance.
Jason
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I'm not sure what the max size is. I use 120GB PNY SATAIII SSD drives in mine and the NVRAM will be full before the drive will. Some makes of SSD drives are not compatible. Really all I can tell you is try it and see if it works or not.
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as long as the machine recognizes the drive, being larger won't matter. I'm pretty sure I've seen one with a 500gb drive, probably in some documentation, but nothing said it was the maximum. I would try it, but I usually try everything. :)
Thanks,
Wayne
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If you have a smaller size SSD, use it. You'll run out of NVRAM long before you'd ever be able to fill a 1TB SSD drive.
Yeah, I thought about that too, but these were all laying around doing nothing, so I just wanted to make sure that 1TB wouldn’t be too large or cause a problem with performance.
Jason
I wish I had 1 TB SSD drives laying around :Tongue_Out:
It should work. If not partition the drive (remember always use quick format on SSDs)
Have a great Holiday
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If you have a smaller size SSD, use it. You'll run out of NVRAM long before you'd ever be able to fill a 1TB SSD drive.
Yeah, I thought about that too, but these were all laying around doing nothing, so I just wanted to make sure that 1TB wouldn’t be too large or cause a problem with performance.
Jason
I wish I had 1 TB SSD drives laying around :Tongue_Out:
It should work. If not partition the drive (remember always use quick format on SSDs)
Have a great Holiday
You too!
Thanks,
Jason
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Keep in mind the boot record is different than what Windows uses. In my case I had to format the hard drive from the diagnostics menu (to get the boot record set right) before I mirrored the old drive to the new drive. Just thought I'd let you know in case you have boot issues with the new drive. If you are re-installing everything from scratch on the new drive you wouldn't have that issue.