Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Lenovo also has an SSD for the X40/X41 as replacement part FRU41W0736. > Well, I just ordered one of the Lenovo drives. I'll see how that > works out. Got it yesterday and put it in my X40. wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57231MB, 1172

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Robert
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:13:51 -0700 Bryan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:57, Claudio Jeker > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > >> * Robert [2009-09-17 16:34]: > >> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 > >> > Henning Brauer wrote: > >> > > >> > > *

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Bryan
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:57, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: >> * Robert [2009-09-17 16:34]: >> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 >> > Henning Brauer wrote: >> > >> > > * Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: >> > > > Would these drives by a

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Robert [2009-09-17 16:34]: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 > > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > > > * Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: > > > > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives > > > > used in

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: "Henning Brauer" * Robert [2009-09-17 16:34]: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > * Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: > > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives > > used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that > > die

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Robert [2009-09-17 16:34]: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: > > > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives > > > used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that > > > died a horrible

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Robert wrote: > There are adapters on ebay for connecting 1,8" ZIF dirves to 44-pin IDE. > But I'd guess that the adapter and the drive won't fit the bay of the > x40. If the amount of effort spent trying to get hard drives for x40 was spent working on ACPI inste

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Robert
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > * Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: > > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives > > used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that > > died a horrible death and it still runs fine. > > > > The

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Aaron Mason [2009-09-17 03:52]: > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives > used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that died > a horrible death and it still runs fine. > > The drive's a 30 gigabyte Toshiba drive, and after the iPod it was > used o

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-17 Thread Edd Barrett
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > Be careful with X60, since it has *known* heating issues for the > wireless (intel one) Heh, well here I am typing on an x60 running windows. I will be replacing the wireless card with a ral anyways, so let's hope that might cure the ove

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Dan Harnett wrote: >> At least here, one could get a used X60 for the cost of the 128GB drive. > > Yes, I think this is my new plan. Would have been nice to have the > tablet, but it's not essential. >

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-16 Thread Aaron Mason
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:46 AM, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2009 14:17:35 you wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:40:36PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: >> > Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of >> > friends, I'd say they're at least 3 times more

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 14 September 2009 14:17:35 you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:40:36PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > > Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of > > friends, I'd say they're at least 3 times more flaky than disks are. > > Intel had a recall on some earl

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:40:36PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > > Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of > friends, I'd say they're at least 3 times more flaky than disks are. Intel > had a recall on some earlier this summer, too. > > Disks are cheap, really ch

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 14 September 2009 06:13:26 Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you may know, my beloved x31 thinkpad went pop last week > and needs a new system board :( Not worth the effort in replacing. > > I have located someone willing to sell me an X41 tablet at a very > affordable price, howeve

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Oliver Peter wrote: > > I don't think there is any SSD available that (1) can be fitted > > into an X40/X41, (2) is available in 64 GB or more, and (3) has > > reasonable performance for small random writes. > > KingSpec-1-8-IDE-SSD-MLC-64GB Indeed. Lenovo also has an SSD for the X40/X41 as re

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread jean-francois
As just for information at ldlc.com you find out a 32 GO for some 90 EUR and a 64 GO for a 130 EUR inc transp. I use one of them on my PC and installed OpenBSD quite well, however not a laptop. Just be sure it will meet your need. Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 C 11:13 +0100, Edd Barrett a C)crit :

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Dan Harnett wrote: > At least here, one could get a used X60 for the cost of the 128GB drive. Yes, I think this is my new plan. Would have been nice to have the tablet, but it's not essential. Thanks to all that replied. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Free

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Dan Harnett
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:37:39PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > b) Any other comments? > > I don't think there is any SSD available that (1) can be fitted > into an X40/X41, (2) is available in 64 GB or more, and (3) has > reasonable performance for small random writes. > > It's frustra

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:37:39PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Edd Barrett wrote: ... > > b) Any other comments? > > I don't think there is any SSD available that (1) can be fitted > into an X40/X41, (2) is available in 64 GB or more, and (3) has > reasonable performance for small random

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Edd Barrett wrote: > I have located someone willing to sell me an X41 tablet at a very > affordable price, however this is the model with the sucky hitachi > disk. I have seen that you can get SSD adaptors for X41's and slap an > SSD in there, Careful, even with an adapter you can only fit a dri

OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, As some of you may know, my beloved x31 thinkpad went pop last week and needs a new system board :( Not worth the effort in replacing. I have located someone willing to sell me an X41 tablet at a very affordable price, however this is the model with the sucky hitachi disk. I have seen that yo