Lenovo W701 - two normal drive bays plus replaced the DVD so it's got 3 SATA drives.
Regards, Greg -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Price [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 5:54 PM To: [email protected]; ozDotNet Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question Wait, what? You have a laptop that has three hard drives in it? What laptop is that? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > > > Ive put 3 of the new Crucial M4 512Gs into my notebook and have been > *really* happy with them. > > > > Regards, > > > > Greg > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tony Wright > Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 12:43 PM > > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question > > > > Found the toms hardware review: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-ssd-320-crucial-m4-realssd-c > 400,2908-6.html > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tony Wright > Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 12:28 PM > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question > > > > Personally I decided on the 256G. And Ive got the same for 3 laptops > now. I dont want to have to waste my time dealing with the > possibility of running out of space. > > > > BTW, there are a number of 3rd gen SSDs out now, not just the Crucial > M4, although they use newer technology which is apparently not as good > (cheaper but not better performing). Some of the 2nd gen drives are > pretty awesome if you can get them for a good price, such as the > Crucial C300 (the only 2nd gen I would buy) > > I read the following forum on toms hardware. > > http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266789-32-foot-race-vertex3-intel-cr > ucial > > And a comparison site written in French (no I cant read it but google > translate is my friend. If you know of a better comparison, please > post it as Im interested) > > http://www.hardware.fr/articles/830-7/comparatif-ssd-2011-crucial-m4-o > cz-vertex-3-intel-510-320.html > > > > T. > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Matt Siebert > Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10:22 PM > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question > > > > I got a 120 GB SSD about 2 months ago (107 GB usable) and have been > running with around 43 GB free space for most of that time. > > > > I'm careful to keep my documents and photos on another drive but I do > have a frequently used XP VM on there occupying about 8 GB. > > > > If I did a cleanup I could probably get away with a 60 GB drive if I > had to, but for a development machine I'd really want 120 GB. > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Incidentally, Windows 7 SP1 now installs OK on his system. > > Its a pity that the installer didnt give an appropriate message, > instead of just terminating with some unrelated or incomprehensible > message. How hard is it to say youre out of disk space, dude? > > I wouldnt have thought a 60Gb SSD was too small, though. > > ________________________________ > > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ian Thomas > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:18 PM > To: 'ozDotNet' > Subject: RE: SSD minimum size question > > > > We were looking for something like that, Joseph Ill pass it on. > Wading through the Power Settings didnt make that clear. > > (just found the same advice from Hanselman, too) > > ________________________________ > > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia > >
