Thanks Ted, I think I have the cheapest 5400 250GB drive so moving up
in HDs would give me more speed, but that's where I started with the
idea of going to a 256 or 512 SSD.

I'm interested that you wouldn't find a 64GB big enough, do you have
specific requiremetns for that or does it just feel too small?


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Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5:02:33 PM, you wrote:

> 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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