Given that there is essentially zero seek time, an SSD will make a difference on any computer. If you're running programs that keeps hundreds of files open and does I/O to all of them, the speedup is fairly amazing. I have a friend doing that. If the file I/O is mostly sequential, it matters less.
Databases *love* SSD's. Index files and such see a fantastic improvement, so much so that I've read of places using small SSD's for them and seeing the systems speed up a huge amount. I have a machine devoted to building apps for my OS, and I've shaved about 3 hours from a 21 hour process with one. --STeve Andre' On 03/27/12 10:15, Paul Khoury wrote:
Will this make a difference on the T61p as well? I noticed there is also an update for that. And would one need to make a CD if using Win 7 64? What exactly is SLIC 2.1? And what is the 2010 error? Paul _____ From: Eric Giles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 07:13 To: Paul Khoury Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] High capacity SSD Paul- There is a modified BIOS-called the Middleton BIOS-that is freely available for download. The SATA controller on the X61/X61 Tablet is SATAII 3Gbps, but Lenovo for compatibility reasons set the BIOS to cap it down to SATAI speeds. This BIOS allows full SATAII speeds, adds SLIC 2.1 to the BIOS for full OS activation using an OEM reinstall disc, whitelist removed (no 2010 error) so you can use any wifi card you want, and adds Dual-IRDA support for the CPU. Here is the link to download it, as well as the links for other Thinkpads that can use this modified BIOS: http://forum.notebookreview.com/6501443-post75.html I have applied this BIOS to two X61 tablets and it works perfectly with no issues at all. Your SSD performance will definitely increase with this BIOS. Eric On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Paul Khoury<[email protected]> wrote: I have to say that initially, I didn't see a major change when first booting up with my Crucial m4, but now that I'm using it, WOW. One quesiton though - on the X60/X61 Tablet, is the SATA interface only limited to 1.5Gbps? Running HD Tune, I'm only getting about 95-100MB-ish read speed, but I understand this drive can do many times more than that sustained. Paul -----Original Message-----
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