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Jun 11, 2013 | 1:14 pm

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Originally Posted by unmesh

Thanks, nkedel. I've been using Intel SSDs at home but will likely get a Samsung for work.

I've also confirmed that the CPU is an i5-520M that does support AES-NI

I'm glad to hear that's got AES-NI, and that my memory was incorrect about it starting with the Sandy Bridge machines.

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Originally Posted by PTravel

He'll have to turn on AHCI in the BIOS in some laptops so that the TRIM function is supported.

With luck, the X201 will have come with it on -- turning on AHCI in the BIOS is easy, but Windows does not always play well with that change having been made. When it works, it "just works" but when it doesn't, doing the switch involves a couple of reboots and a couple of registry changes which -- while not rocket surgery -- aren't the most comfortable things for non-technical users to mess with.

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