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    Rapid Drive Technology for Lenovo 420/520 puters

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pkincy, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone have any idea of cost or operation of the new Rapid Drive Technology in the Sandy Bridge laptops?

    It appears to be a small form factor SSD of 80GB that will be used for the OS and for bootup.

    Is it actually mounted on the HDD or is it in the small PCIe slot? If the latter does it take the place of the WWAN card?

    Tabook doesn't have any info on it yet. Anyone have a date for release?

    This I will wait for. 500 GB 7200 HDD with the Rapid Drive is the cat's meow.

    Quick access without (hopefully) the cost of the larger SSDs in the place of a trad HDD.

    Perry
     
    pkincy, Mar 25, 2011
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  2. ThinkRob

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    What's a puter?
     
    ThinkRob, Mar 25, 2011
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    amtbr Notebook Consultant

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    Google is your friend, these questions are easily answerable by a quick search.
     
    amtbr, Mar 25, 2011
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    The RapidDrive is an Intel 310. And it goes into the full sized WWAN slot.
     
    chx1975, Mar 25, 2011
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  5. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    In this case you are wrong. It has been mentioned but no details have yet leaked out.

    I also have heard it goes in the WWAN slot, which leaves a decision vis a vis the WWAN vs Rapid Drive but cost and availability are still very much up in the air.

    One (and only one as of yesterday) resellers had a configuration that included the first mention I have seen of it at retail but there was not sufficient data to determine price nor availability.

    Perry
     
    pkincy, Mar 25, 2011
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    Mech0z Notebook Evangelist

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    Dont the models just have 2 mini pci express ports?
     
    Mech0z, Mar 25, 2011
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    A 'puter' is a (com)puter I guess?

    Rapid drive is mSata, like the Intel 310: Intel 310 Series (Soda Creek) SSDMAEMC040G2C1 mSATA 40GB mSATA (mini PCIe form factor) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

    On sale at Newegg
     
    abachofner, Mar 25, 2011
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    On sale. Good one. They are currently full price at newegg. They were discounted some but not much a few days ago.
     
    halobox, Mar 25, 2011
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    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    Some info I found out by more searching.

    Rapid Drive is apparently a software algorithm that moves data between a HDD and an SSD by frequency of use.

    Although this may sound good it doesn't yet have a similar back up option for data. So if one of the drives craters than you can reinstall all of your software but you need to have all data discretely backed up from each drive to a backup file. (and "each drive" may be a different place each week).

    Apparently some folks with the IdeaPad with Rapid Drive have already had some drive outages and lost their data.

    This makes me think that a better solution is replacement of the HDD with an SSD after purchase and move the HDD to an Ultrabay Caddy III.

    This way you have a C and a D drive with discrete data....OS and frequently accessed files on the SSD and large infrequently used data and programs on the D with regular back up of both to a large external drive.

    Any other thoughts?

    Perry
     
    pkincy, Mar 27, 2011
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  10. Marcham93

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    lmao... sorry that was just too much for me... worst short hand ever.
     
    Marcham93, Mar 27, 2011
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