X300 SSD - Benefit?

HI,

I have a x300 with the original 64GB SSD (Samsung). Will replacing this with a more recent model give any performance benefit (either 1.8" replacement or mSata with caddy)?

I have just flashed the tweaked bios to get the most out of the SSD I have. Had the x300 for years and really wish the Lenovo did a modern replacement.

 

A couple of questions, and one general observation...

a) What OS are you running?

b) Can you run the Crystal Disk Mark on your current SSD and report back the scores?

Generally speaking, a newer/larger SSD should yield a more responsive machine, not to mention the fact that 64GB is really not a lot of space nowadays...

 

As reference you can use the Crystal Disk Mark results of my 256GB Plextor mSATA SSD that was in my X301 and compare it to the Samsung SSD to see if its worth upgrading or not.

 

I'm gonna say the usual thing like "if you aren't doing anything too I/O intensive, you may not notice a difference" probably applies. I couldn't tell the difference going between the old Samsung RBX (like 80/10 sequential/random) drives to the nominally much faster Intel X25 drives (like 250/25). That being said, I haven't used the first-gen drives in the X300, so YMMV.

 

I'm using Win 7 64bit and have run Crystal Disk Mark with some interesting results. I'm getting significantly less than PatchySan..... mSata with caddy the answer?

 

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Wow.

Either there's something very wrong with your current software setup, or that drive really needs to be retired. Those are poor results even by SATA I standards, let alone SATA II.

Good luck.

 

This is what you should be getting on the stock SSD. Patchy's CDM is for a recent Plextor.

 

Oh my...I don't recall *ever* seeing an SSD with such performance - or should we say lack thereof - so yeah, it's upgrade time, big time.

Good luck.

 

Given the processor limitations and onboard graphics bottleneck would I expect to see a noticeable performance impact in the real world?

 

Is that SSD aligned, etc? Could you post a screenshot of AS SSD Benchmark? Still I don't think you will get much real performance benefit. Unless you need more space.

One of my laptops has an SSD going at 120MB/s and it still feels snappy to me. Does the X300 feel rather snappy?

 

Those numbers are correct for the first generation of SSD's that were used in the X300. Yes, SSD's actually we're that slow back then.

 

Hmmm...I've got several 1st generation Intel SSDs from circa 2008/9 - granted, they are SLC - and the speeds are about double from that poor Samsung drive...

 

The Intel SSD's came after the Samsung but yes, they were a lot faster. Over at the German TP forum, we are all aware that the original X300/X301 SSD's are crap and even slower than some hard drives (or at least people jokingly say so), which is why they usually get swapped for better SSD's.

I have a X301 with the original 128GB Samsung drive and can confirm that it feels horribly slow, even though it has Linux on it. (eOS) My Windows X301 with a Crucial C300 128GB feels 10x faster. And my other X301 with a Micron P400e feels 20x faster, even though its only 64GB.

 

I have an original drive on my X301 and it is slow. Those numbers look about right.