1.8' SSD Recommendations?

I have a friend who just bought a Lenovo T410S Laptop and he was telling me he needs a 1.8' SSD. I never even knew that such a form factor exists...

what are your recommendations what drive to get that's 1.8'?

It's for his kids he only needs like 120GB or so

 

or can he just get an mSATA EVO and stick it in a 1.8 to mSATA converter?

 

Take a look at the post by 600X which is marked as a solution in this thread:

Re: Hard drive, 1.8" form factor - Lenovo Community

And yes, mSATA with a converter will work as well.

 

thanks a lot man

 

You're very welcome. A couple of things to bear in mind:

a) T410/s - as well as that entire generation of ThinkPads - is SATA II only, so getting the "latest and greatest and fastest oh my" SSD might not do much for it in the terms of performance.

b) I've had less-than-stellar experiences with SandForce-based drives on this generation of ThinkPads, and would advise against buying one, even if they seem cheap.

c) My personal preference if I were shopping for 1.8" SSD myself would be a Crucial or non-SF Intel, but to each their own.

Good luck.

 

Thanks man, I know about SandForce drives I've learned my lesson after owning a Kingston 480GB HyperX Drive which could get excellent scores in ATTO Disk Benchmark since that uses compressed data but in real world usage, it could barely reach 170MB/S write speed, worst drives ever

 

A 1.8 foot SSD? Damn, that's huge.

 

so what's the shortcut for inch? is it " or ' I can never tell

 

Was just joking with ya. But it's the quote: " = inches.

Kingston, Intel, and OCZ are the only brands I know of with 1.8" SSD's. Intel is probably the most reliable of the three, but also the slowest.