We have a lot of clients installing several different SSD brands and models on a variety of laptops... HP, Sony, Compaq, ASUS... They all report the SSD installs are definitely slower... But they like the security factor... no damaged data from impact to hard drives or laptops... but theirs have, so far, been Windows XPH and XPP restore disk installs... and smaller drives than they had with EIDE or SATA drives.
Since you report flawless installs, I assume you detect no problems with slower speed or operation. Could you comment on speed and data storage, please, if you have had an opportunity to give them a good trial. RayBsay - - - - - What this world needs is a little monotony. Has anybody gotony? ... .... ..... ...... ....... Ogden Nash On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I had a flawless [full] x64 install on a T61p. The only thing that > didn't get picked up was the Biometric Copro, which installed OK with the > Fingerprint software. That was the only non-included driver I had to deal > with. > > I also have a S10 that I replaced my HDD with a 64GB SSD - that also had no > problems. There were a couple of drivers that were required via Windows > Update. I don't think I had to get anything from Lenovo, but it was a > couple of months ago so don't quote me on that. What is interesting too is > that the machine runs Areo just fine... got a 2.0 rating on the new scale. > Battery life is around 3-4 hours depending on what's open; boots in under > 20 > seconds. > > HTH! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jonathan Kelly > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:33 PM > To: Cottrell, Eric > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Windows 7 experiment on a Lenovo T61 > > Good stuff Eric, thank you for sharing. i'm going to be doing a T61 to > Win7 install in the next two weeks, so please keep your updates coming! > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Thinkpad] Windows 7 experiment on a Lenovo T61 > From: "Cottrell, Eric" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: 10/23/2009 4:26 PM > > Hello, > > > > I am trying out Windows 7 Professional on my T61 but with a twist. I got > a 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD to replace my 100GB Hitachi 7200 RPM Drive. SSD is > still a little expensive but are coming down in price. The 120GB OCZ > Vertex > SSD has good reviews and does not suffer from the stutter problem. I am > also going with the 64 bit version of Windows 7. It is a wise decision to > use a new HD because a requirement to "upgrade" from XP to Windows 7 is to > backup on an external hard drive and wipe the computer's HD. > > > > > I updated the Bios to Version 2.26 from 2.24 since the new version said > Windows 7 support. > > > > I had a few problems. After the inital part of the install I came up > with > a 2100 Error. The connector on the SSD is not as long as the old drive so > I > trimed down the connector side of the rubber mounts slightly as suggested > online. That did not fix it. The 2100 error only happens on reboot. If I > power off then on, it boots okay. The problem went away after Windows 7 > was > installed. > > > > The install is better than XP or Vista. I did not use the full disk > since > I will be installing Linux. There is a simplified HD setup tool in the > installer. > > > > The SSD is very quiet and seems to perform okay. Windows 7 (and the > Linux > 2.6.28 kernel) uses the TRIM command to indicate to the SSD which blocks > are > not being used. > > > > Of course the next fun stage was downloading all the Windows 7 drivers > for > the T61. I got an error when I tried to install the fingerprint software. > It did seem to install through System Update 4.0. It looks like some > Thinkvantage utilities are still in Beta. I use Access Connections the > most > but I will give the built-in Windows 7 stuff a go. There is a "home" > network and "office" network configurations. When I connected the laptop > at > home it detected that the network was different from the office network I > used earlier. > > > > I got some basic apps on the T61 but need to spend the weekend installing > and using. > > > > 73 Eric > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
