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    AAHHH! how do I get at this thing!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by yuio, Feb 2, 2009.

  1. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    how do I get at the T500's hard drive? I can't seem to get in there!

    I took the panel on the side of the computer off and I think I can see the hard drive, but I don't know how to get it out! any help plz! (there is what appears to be a ribbon there but I don't know if that's for pulling or data!... )

    If anyone is wondering why I need to get this disk out is I got my SSD !!!
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    wow thanks so much! I got it! I am just installing windows! x64 now...
     
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    I think i remember you thinking of getting a ssd? Which one, and any benchmarks?
     
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  5. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    I bought the 64GB G.skill 155/90 MB/s Read/write.. benchmarks are coming ;)

    I now understand why people say hard driver are crap... boot from thinkpad splash to desktop: 5 seconds... it takes 4x longer to shut down than boot!

    and Benchies are coming!!! when I install everything of course! the screws are tiny and had a horrible time getting them back in lol.
     
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    dark0anima Notebook Enthusiast

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    1 word....wow :eek:
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    video Drivers suscess... audio is still being a ****
     
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    goofball Notebook Deity

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    did you do partition alignment? XP needs this if you created the partition during install. Vista aligns properly.
     
    goofball, Feb 3, 2009
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    no worries. using Vista x64!

    wow, any tips on how to install drivers? lol, install wireless doesn't work install audio... doesn't work...
    never mind... wireless working...

    ... benchies in the morning I'm tired...lol zzzz.....
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    OK, so initial benchmarks...
    G.Skill 64GB SSD.
    HD tune pro(trial):
    Minumum: 22.7MB/s
    Maximum 128.9MB/s
    Average: 105MB/s

    Random access:
    512bytes: 0.20ms/2.446MB/s
    4KB: .24ms/16.527MB/s
    64KB: .70ms/89.7MB/s
    1MB: 7.2ms 138.034MB/s



    anyone what any more?
     
    yuio, Feb 3, 2009
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    t30power Notebook Deity

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    WOW. Impressive benchmarkings. Any noticeable difference when booting the laptop is really an SSD that impressive in terms of data transfer?
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    booting is about 1/2 to 3/4 the speed of a 320GB 5400rpm standard disk.

    I give a few examples how how fast it is...
    internet explorer with Google as my home page take about 1/10 of a second to load.
    I don't even see the sign in screen on boot it goes from the vista logo to my desktop.
    I just installed Java JDK 6 u12 and the loading bar went from 0% to a 100% is 1 second.
    transferring off my USB stick ~35-40MB/s(I have a good USB stick).
    installed Vista x64 in 22min's
     
    yuio, Feb 3, 2009
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