> I'll probably need a data transfer kit, they have one from Apricorn for > U$19
If you have the ultrabase for your X220, by far the best way of doing the transfer is using an ultrabay HD adapter: put the old drive in the ultrabay, the new one in the machine, boot from the ultrabay, etc. The ultrabay SATA adapters that sell on eBay for under $10 work well. > I have about 40-60GB free on the HD (so haven't been too aggressive it > keeping it down), I'm wondering if the 256GB would be big enough. Because of this tradeoff, we just upgraded my son's machine with a hybrid (Seagate Momentus) instead of a full SSD. It is not as fast as the SSD on my machine, but still much faster than a regular disk. There's a review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd (note that the velociraptor with which they are favorably comparing it is a 10,000 rpm desktop drive). Don't forget to check the warranty. Part of my decision to go with an Intel SSD on my machine was the 5 year warranty. David _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
