Every "non-approved drive", including SSDs, gives an error at boot. This was proven on X41/T, R52 and T43/p.
Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: RayBay <[email protected]> To: John Toliver <[email protected]> Cc: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 3:24 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Does anyone have any ideas on if this will work in a T43 Yes, it will work... at least on certain T-43 models. Rather slow, a big small, and very, very expensive per megabyte. But so far very reliable.. I don't know about the error that comes up on some T43 models, as mine is one without the error.. It would be interesting to know whether the hard drive error remains, would it not. Let's get Bruce to try it... or the other guru's on this forum. RB - - - - - Always remember: A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Edward R. Murrow On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, John Toliver <[email protected]>wrote: > I was surfing Amazon.com and ran across > this<%20 > http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-2-5-Solid-State-Disk/dp/B001BPDEU6/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1256668024&sr=1-7#moreAboutThisProduct > >. > It's an MLC but as I understand, that means 10 years vs, 100 years from an > SLC according to > this<http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3036991>guide I > googled (I know it's probably exaggeration but if the guestimates > are ball park valid, then ~$200 seems worth 10 years of service and the > access and seek times will still be better than even a 7200rpm. I seem to > remember the last time this conversation came up, the issue of battery life > being questionable arose... So faster drive, longevity, bad battery life? > > > -- > I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either learn > the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win situation! > _______________________________________________ > 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
