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    W520 mPCI HD?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Bashar, Nov 3, 2016.

  1. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,
    From the day i got my W520 i ordered mPCI 64GB SSD and made it book disk and its original 500GB disk became my storage.

    after these years i feel the SSD is slow and my PC tend to hang from time to time when i overload it work apps running.

    So I was wondering if you have any experience sharing on ordering newer mPCI SSD (the small one that fits into the cellular card) to replace it which is super fast and possibly larger space these days? this is its specs:
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Device Model:     INTEL SSDMAEMC080G2
Serial Number:    CVSC117100U0080D
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001517 95955b87a
Firmware Version: 2CV102M3
User Capacity:    80,026,361,856 bytes [80.0 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Thu Nov  3 17:41:21 2016 AST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
    Just few info the device has 16GB RAM and i7-2920XM CPU running ubuntu 16.04.1

    Thanks
     
    Bashar, Nov 3, 2016
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  2. jedisurfer1

    jedisurfer1 Notebook Deity

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    yes samsung evo 850 has 250, 500gb and 1tb msata drives. I've use all they are pretty good. The other option is crucial m4 msata. In my experience these are the 2 best msata options
     
    jedisurfer1, Nov 4, 2016
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  3. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    Are these similar to the Intel model?

    This is how it looks like

    Thanks
     
    Bashar, Dec 8, 2016
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    Yes it looks like that.
     
    jedisurfer1, Dec 9, 2016
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    jcvjcvjcvjcv Notebook Evangelist

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    Also check Crucial MX200 mSata. "Available" in 250GB and 500GB.
     
    jcvjcvjcvjcv, Dec 18, 2016
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