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    ExpressCard Drives - How fast are they?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dragunov-21, Feb 12, 2009.

  1. Dragunov-21

    Dragunov-21 Notebook Evangelist

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    I've been reading a few reviews, and what I assumed would be smaller capacity versions of the SSDs that are so popular at the moment have (apparently) crappy speed. (30Mb/s read and 3Mb/s write on a lexar I saw)

    Is this just because they are connected through a different interface to SS Hard Drives, or what?

    I was intending to install my Linux distro or a couple of games on a 16gig one for incresed performance (my hard-drive is a 7200rpm 200Gb), but it's looking as though performance would actually take a hit.

    Any advice?
     
    Dragunov-21, Feb 12, 2009
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Dont bother. Your hard drive is faster.
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 12, 2009
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  3. Dragunov-21

    Dragunov-21 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ah bawls... Why do you say things you know will hurt me?

    Cheers. I guess this thread can be closed lol.
     
    Dragunov-21, Feb 12, 2009
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  4. meansizzler

    meansizzler Notebook Consultant

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    The cheap express card SSD's use the USB interface hence the crap speed, the more expensive ones eg.. $600 8GB Sandisk used PCI-E Interface, hence 100MB/S read/write

    But Mtron do a 100MB/s read write for $180, 16GB but not flush fit like sandisk, it can be used to run OS from though
     
    meansizzler, Feb 13, 2009
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  5. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    I have been looking at this MTron ExpressCard SSD.

    I have a ThinkPad x200 Tablet with a 5400RPM 320GB HDD. I would like to use the ExpressCard SSD to run my OS (probably Windows 7) and use the HDD for data storage.

    However, I have had trouble finding out if this is actually bootable. One person on these forums managed to get it running on a HP tx2000, but he's not 100% sure how he did it (tried several times, and eventually it just worked). Do you have any tips for making this SSD work as a boot drive??
     
    jonlumpkin, Feb 20, 2009
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