MSI GT70 2PE Dominator Pro Laptop Review

Internal Components - Part 2

Figure 14 shows the optical unit, which is a Blu-Ray burner model SN-506 from Toshiba/Samsung. It reads and writes CDs at 24x, reads and writes DVDs at 8x, and reads an writes Blu-Ray discs at 6x speed.

Figure 14: Blu-ray writer

The hard disk drive that comes with the MSI GT70 2PE Dominator Pro is a Western Digital HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1 TB unit (7,200 rpm, 32 MiB cache).

Figure 15: hard disk drive

We were amazed with the MSI GS70 Stealth because it comes with two mSATA SSDs in RAID, but the GT70 2PE Dominator Pro goes one step further: it comes with three 128 GiB mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 configuration. This means it the laptop has a 384 GiB primary drive, with a theoretical speed of about 1,500 MiB/s.

Figure 16: SSDs

The MSI GT70 2PE Dominator Pro has four memory sockets, populated with four ADATA DDR3-1600 8 GiB modules, for a total of 32 GiB, which is the maximum amount of memory this laptop supports. Figure 17 shows two of the memory modules that come with the laptop.

Figure 17: two of the four memory modules