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Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Hi,
I have an X1 and am thinking of swapping the Mobile Broadband card out and replacing with a mSATA ssd drive. I dont want to replace the HDD with an SSD as I need at least 320GB disk space and the SDD drives exceeding that capacity are too expensive for me.
I am thinking I can fit a 120GB mSATA, transfer the OS to to it and get the best of both worlds...I don't really use the Mobile Broadband as my Android phone acts as a wifi hotspot / has tethering which is good enough for me.
Can I use say a Crucial or OCZ mSATA drive or do I have get hold of an official Lenovo item?
Thanks!
I have an X1 and am thinking of swapping the Mobile Broadband card out and replacing with a mSATA ssd drive. I dont want to replace the HDD with an SSD as I need at least 320GB disk space and the SDD drives exceeding that capacity are too expensive for me.
I am thinking I can fit a 120GB mSATA, transfer the OS to to it and get the best of both worlds...I don't really use the Mobile Broadband as my Android phone acts as a wifi hotspot / has tethering which is good enough for me.
Can I use say a Crucial or OCZ mSATA drive or do I have get hold of an official Lenovo item?
Thanks!
Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Yeah, mSATA are standard. Or you can buy an ultrabay adapter for a second hard drive and keep WWAN. Optical drives are rarely used today, are probably less useful than mobile boradband. And you can keep the drive in your sleeve just in case.
X301: SU9600 | 8GB | 1TB | WXGA+
X1C5: 7600U | 16GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C9: 1145G7 | 16GB | 1TB | WUXGA | WWAN
X1Y8: 1365U | 32GB | 1TB | WUXGA
P14s G1 AMD: 4750U | 32GB | 1TB | PG FHD Touch
T14 G2: 1145G7 | 32GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C5: 7600U | 16GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C9: 1145G7 | 16GB | 1TB | WUXGA | WWAN
X1Y8: 1365U | 32GB | 1TB | WUXGA
P14s G1 AMD: 4750U | 32GB | 1TB | PG FHD Touch
T14 G2: 1145G7 | 32GB | 1TB | FHD
Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
It's hard to replace the optical drive on a notebook that doesn't have one like the X1.
I don't think there's a Lenovo mSATA with CRU, but I could be wrong. Chances are it's less expensive to just do it yourself anyway.
I don't think there's a Lenovo mSATA with CRU, but I could be wrong. Chances are it's less expensive to just do it yourself anyway.
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Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Thanks - I was planning to stick a Crucial 128GB in - just wanted to be sure - as I had issues years ago swapping the Wifi card on an older Thinkpad - had to hack the BIOS etc.ZaZ wrote:It's hard to replace the optical drive on a notebook that doesn't have one like the X1.
I don't think there's a Lenovo mSATA with CRU, but I could be wrong. Chances are it's less expensive to just do it yourself anyway.
I will email crucial to confirm first...
Cheers.
Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Ammm... lapsus brutus... mea culpa...ZaZ wrote:It's hard to replace the optical drive on a notebook that doesn't have one like the X1.
I don't think there's a Lenovo mSATA with CRU, but I could be wrong. Chances are it's less expensive to just do it yourself anyway.
X301: SU9600 | 8GB | 1TB | WXGA+
X1C5: 7600U | 16GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C9: 1145G7 | 16GB | 1TB | WUXGA | WWAN
X1Y8: 1365U | 32GB | 1TB | WUXGA
P14s G1 AMD: 4750U | 32GB | 1TB | PG FHD Touch
T14 G2: 1145G7 | 32GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C5: 7600U | 16GB | 1TB | FHD
X1C9: 1145G7 | 16GB | 1TB | WUXGA | WWAN
X1Y8: 1365U | 32GB | 1TB | WUXGA
P14s G1 AMD: 4750U | 32GB | 1TB | PG FHD Touch
T14 G2: 1145G7 | 32GB | 1TB | FHD
Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
Just to confirm I successfully installed the Crucial m4 mSATA 128gb SSD into my X1.
After a bit of hassle (my fault) migrating the existing Windows installation from the HDD to the SSD I am now booting from the mSATA drive OK.
EDIT: Someone messaged me asking if I needed to bypass BIOS etc to get the X1 to recognise the Crucial mSata drive - no I did not - it was recognised just fine.
The problem above was more to do with cloning the data from the HDD to the mSata - if memory serves me, I forgot to set the mSATA active..
After a bit of hassle (my fault) migrating the existing Windows installation from the HDD to the SSD I am now booting from the mSATA drive OK.
EDIT: Someone messaged me asking if I needed to bypass BIOS etc to get the X1 to recognise the Crucial mSata drive - no I did not - it was recognised just fine.
The problem above was more to do with cloning the data from the HDD to the mSata - if memory serves me, I forgot to set the mSATA active..
Re: Any mSATA drive or specific Lenovo FRU only?
I successfully installed a Mushkin 120GB mSATA along with a 240GB SanDisk SSD (this required some warranty voiding modification) and have had no issues. The only odd thing I encountered was Windows putting the System Reserved partition on the 240GB since it recognizes the drives in a different order than the BIOS.
X1: i5-2520M | 8GB DDR3 | 120GB mSATA & 240GB SSD | Windows 8.1 Pro
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