On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > The only comment I have is probably irrelevant to what Keith is putting > together. > > I have a T61 and I recently discovered that the internal Intel SATA > controller > is SATA-2, but Lenovo throttled it to 100 MB/s. The official explanation is > to > ensure compatibility with PATA drives in the Ultrabay, in case anyone does > this. In reality, the controller would handle the issue and throttling the > SATA-2 controller was unnecessary. Another bad design decision. > Nevertheless, I > am stuck with a recently acquired new SATA-2 drive that runs at only 100 > GB/s. > > This does not affect later Thinkpads, and I don't know if it affects the > T60. > 100GB/s, that's the drive I want! Seriously, for a single laptop drive of the type that spins platters, you are not limited by a 100MB/s interface because the drive itself is only capable of transfer rates of 60MB/s or less. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
