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? -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] 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! >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
