Any X220 will take an mSATA SSD. It goes in the slot where a WWAN card
would go. The keyboard and palmrest have to be removed to access that
slot. Lenovo has a video at http://lenovoservicetraining.com
The native 7200 rpm HD in my X220 is working very well, so I haven't
seen the need yet to spend $200 on an Intel 80GB mSATA - which would be
the minimum capacity I'd install - just to get a few seconds faster boot.
On 2/11/2012 1:52 PM, Andrew Webber wrote:
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that option (it was in the news when I was
shopping because I think there had been BIOS bugs?). Did you mean
WWAN?
I'm pretty sure I got that version though I'm not certain, I have
4286CTO. Is that good? I'm sure there's some ThinkVantage "diagnostic"
utility that will be happy to sell me one, but I don't see it.
The Lenovo spec sheet mentions an Intel 80GB mSATA drive, is the
actual limit higher? And what capacity do people here recommend? I
grabbed a bunch of prices from Amazon and Newegg and put them in a
spreadsheet, and it looks like (a) they go up to 120GB, and (b)
cheapest 64GB per gig seems to be a Kingston at $1.44/GB and cheapest
120/128GB seems to be an OCZ Nocti at $1.89/GB.
Apart from brand name, what should I be looking for? For example,
there seems to be both OCZ Strata and a more expensive OCZ Nocti. I
can read the specs to see the difference but is there something the
X220 _won't_ take?
Thanks!
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