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    Sata 150 specs. on new X200's and T400's laptops today

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by stylinexpat, Dec 21, 2009.

  1. stylinexpat

    stylinexpat Notebook Evangelist

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    Went to the local computer market today and looked at the new X200, X200s, T400 and T400's laptops and found that the spec. sheet listed all of them as Sata-150. According the guy at Lenovo's shop here in Taipei he claimed all laptops can only run up to 1.5 or Sata 150 :(

    He said he wasn't sure about other countries specs. but he was sure that for all the above mentioned products were Sata-150.
     
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    no these machines are SATA3 capable, they are not restricted to the SATA1.5 mode like the previous generation Thinkpads were.
     
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    that's in reference to the HDD speed, not the bus speed.   no 7200 RPM HDD comes close to saturating 150 MB/sec so there's no reason to advertise it otherwise.

    take a look at the thinkpad PSREF book and you'll see that systems are listed with 3 Gb/sec bus speeds.

    http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tabook.pdf

    thinkpads don't come with different SATA buses.   all current models are capable of up to 3 Gb/sec throughput if your drive is capable.   many users, myself included, have tested fast SSDs in our systems and achieved advertised maximum read/write speeds.

    the salesperson you spoke with was either misinformed or misunderstood your question.   either way, the information he provided to you was incorrect.   current systems are absolutely, definitively, 100% capable of 3 Gb/sec throughput.
     
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    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    What he said :)
     
    jonlumpkin, Dec 21, 2009
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