Originally Posted by
Landing Gear
This is what was inside my Sony, the one with which I have been having all the service problems mentioned in other threads:
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/...oid=2000055122
I've heard that Toshiba makes OEM SSDs for a number of companies including Apple. True?
Toshiba has made OEM SSDs for a number of companies, and there are a number of companies (Dell and Lenovo, notably) who source SSDs from multiple companies and in some cases (especially Dell!) two of the same model of machine ordered at roughly the same time can come with two different manufacturers SSDs (often with a Dell label stuck on them such that you need to actually plug them in and check what the BIOS or OS says it is.
I don't keep track of Apple stuff, so I can't comment on who they use for their SSD suppliers.
The model you link to is are the SSD models I saw a brief positive review of, but again, it's a bummer that there isn't a more comprehensive one on Anandtech.
Originally Posted by
cbkcc1
although the x201 doesn't support it, if you are getting a Lenovo to replace that one in time, i would look into an mSATA card. it goes in your WAN slot and is an SSD, and you can still have a mechanical HDD (or SSD) in the main bay for storage and put your OS on the mSATA.
mSATA is nice, if you need more space and want to go the one-of-each approach, or if you want two SSDs and don't have an optical drive you can swap out for one.
also, i would not keep the SSD too full as it can shorten the life over time.
In theory, yes. In practice, as I said up-thread, it is totally unnecessary for a regular user to worry about write lifetime. Even with write amplification, and lower lifetimes on smaller flash nodes, you would have to write the entire size of the drive out daily day in and day out in order to worry about write lifetime going in a couple of years.
Write slowdowns when full are a bigger issue than lifetime.
here is an SSD guide, that is pretty typical, in the first link of this forum post, but i agree with the second posters changes to the guide (which are significant). but you should be aware of the falsities out there as well.
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-St...rs/td-p/104886
The second reply brings up some very good points: with the exception of turning AHCI on if it is not enabled, most of the guide is dangerous and unnecessary. Windows 7 should do all the tuning needed to get good performance out of an SSD under normal workloads.
and a fresh install is always best,
Assuming you have the time and expertise to do it; it's not hard, as long as your hardware is pretty standard. For the X201, Lenovo has a very nice software update tool which will install all the Lenovo-specific software and drivers once the machine is on the net (which may require manually adding a NIC or WLAN driver); I highly recommend it.
i would always always recommend an offsite backup of your important files. an external drive is not a backup plan (as stated here). i like spideroak but there are many cloud providers.
An on-site external drive is not a backup plan, at least for a desktop (one sitting at home is, arguably, a good first-step backup plan for laptops used on the road.)
I don't use cloud backup for much; I have a RAIDed server at home, which serves as a backup for my laptops. The most critical terabyte or so of files are on two off-site external drives, one in my bank safety deposit box, and one at my inlaws' house 300 miles away. A couple gigs of the most critical files are mirrored between Google Drive and Dropbox, but that's a drop in the bucket of the family photos.
Now that flickr's gone to 1TB free, I may dump them all up there.