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    mSATA for new Lenovo IdeaPad y570!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by leoaj, Jul 12, 2011.

  1. leoaj

    leoaj Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys I want your opinion! Lenovo ran out of the ideapad RapidDrive models (models with ssd/hdd hybrid) so I got the next best thing.

    I want to buy an mSATA PCIe ssd to make it work as if I bought the RapidDrive model. I want to spend around $100-$130. From my research I've found 3 options, what do you guys think? The only brand I recognize is Intel, I would like performance over size since I can use my regular hdd for storage.

    Intel 310 Series 40GB

    MyDigitalSSD 64GB

    Renice 30GB K3VLAR

    Are there any good ones I missed? Thanks in advance.
     
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    leoaj Notebook Enthusiast

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    So the Renice is too small and the MyDigital is junk?
     
    leoaj, Jul 13, 2011
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    Yeah, even with moving the Users folder, 30GB is too small in 2011 (for me at least).

    As to the mydigitalssd... I think they got banned here for some reason (can't find a single post from them in a search). Also remember that the 'benchmarks' they were throwing around were exactly the same on a few different places around the 'net - doesn't seem too realistic to have a single CDM benchmark to show people, now does it. ;)
     
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    I think it was the Renice SSDs that got banned.
     
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    Really? Hmm, like I mentioned - couldn't find any reply from mydigitalssd either... Hmmm... thanks for correcting me though.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jul 13, 2011
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    Well I'm not sure myself...

    In any case, I'd go with the 40 GB Intel. Don't get me wrong, the 80 GB is great and it's better than the 40 GB (trying to get an 80 GB myself), but it's also twice as much which is out of your budget.
     
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    Hey guys, so the upgrade to my comp through lenovo would cost abt $300 extra for their 64GB ssd (and there is 0 mention of what brand the ssd actually is) so I might suck it up and shell out $200 for the 80GB intel.

    Thanks for the help!
     
    leoaj, Jul 14, 2011
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    There are some posts from him/them on MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD - 64gb in X220
     
    Abula, Jul 14, 2011
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    Abula,

    Thanks for pursuing this - I was wrong. Must have been someone else that was banned (now, I'm scared to name names... ;) ).
     
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