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Solid State Drive in A31
Solid State Drive in A31
After getting my T60, I haven't been using my A31 too much but recently the Travelstar 60GB 7200rpm drive went out on it. I am looking to get a 64GB SSD for it, but don't know too much about them. It is kind of hard to find a 2.5" IDE SSD, and I've only found Kingspec or Transcend branded drives. Does anybody know if these brands are any good, or if there is a better brand out there?
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Luke
Thinkpad A22m Type 2628-RTU|30GB 4200RPM|512MB RAM|850MHz PIII|
Thinkpad A31 Type 2653-CU1|60GB 7200RPM|2GB RAM|2.2GHz P4M|Upgraded to 15" UXGA
Thinkpad T61 (08/08) Type 6457-4UU|Middleton BIOS|120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD|4GB RAM|2.0GHz Core 2 Duo|15.4" WSXGA+
Re: Solid State Drive in A31
Both of these are utter junk.
Just get a decent used PATA HDD and call it a day.
Just get a decent used PATA HDD and call it a day.
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Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31
Have you seen this shopping adventure discussion? The search for a perfect mSATA to PATA bridge module. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=112081
Speed in A31 might automatically be limited to UDMA/33.
Speed in A31 might automatically be limited to UDMA/33.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31
An Msata to 2.5" IDE adapter could be one solution. These adapters are inexpensive and a used Samsung Msata PM830 or 840 are not that expensive either. Though I'm sure how good they are compared to their 2.5" equivalents. Otoh the better Samsung SSDs since the 2.5" 830 has been top notch so there is hopefully not anything serious to worry about the ssds itself.
CF or SD card to 2.5" IDE is another possible solution. But generally these cards seems slower and could potentially become a bottleneck as the even the Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 or 92/mb/s are slower than the theoretical 133 mb/s which the Pata interface in the A31P are capable of.
CF or SD card to 2.5" IDE is another possible solution. But generally these cards seems slower and could potentially become a bottleneck as the even the Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 or 92/mb/s are slower than the theoretical 133 mb/s which the Pata interface in the A31P are capable of.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31
Is the CF or SD card slower than a mechanical pata?
The drive on the A31p I have is dying I believe, I do have other pata HDDs to use but well, reliability.
The drive on the A31p I have is dying I believe, I do have other pata HDDs to use but well, reliability.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31
The A30 supports ATA100, the A31 uses the same SB as the A30, so it must also support ATA100.
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