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    SSD for T61 suggestions

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mullenbooger, Feb 15, 2009.

  1. mullenbooger

    mullenbooger Former New York Giant

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    I'm toying around with the idea of replacing my 7k320 HDD with a SSD.

    My number one concern is to avoid any stuttering issues, and not require a lot of tweaking to get the drive to work, so no ocz cores or other jmicron drives.

    I need around 120gb, but 64gb could suffice.

    I've narrowed it down to

    Corsair 128gb (samsung internals) MLC
    Gskill titan 120gb MLC
    OCZ apex 120gb MLC


    The prices for these guys are all in the same range, so price doesn't matter too much here. Since the t61 is limited to sata I speeds, im not sure if the upgrade to either the titan or apex in read/write speed is worth it. The corsair is slower (90/70 for read and write) but again, the t61 can only go up to maybe 130mb/s.

    Is the extra 40-60 mb/s that you can get with the titan or apex compared to the corsair worth the possible risk of stuttering?

    Are the corsair's speeds fast enough that I will notice a big improvement over my 7200rpm 320gb drive?

    Any word if there will be a fix to this stupid sataI speed limitation on my sataII controller?
     
    mullenbooger, Feb 15, 2009
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  2. miro_gt

    miro_gt Notebook Deity

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    Samsung 64GB SLC is proven to be good. I was gonna buy one, but I figured 2 things: SSD technology will become cheap soon; the space will increase soon as well.

    so I went with 500GB 7200rpm HDD instead. My last HDD .. most likely
     
    miro_gt, Feb 15, 2009
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