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    x220i mSATA input please !

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by DFW Guy, Jun 9, 2014.

  1. DFW Guy

    DFW Guy Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have a x220i (4286CTO) with a 60GB mSATA boot drive and 150GB SATA. the mSATA is full and i need to buy a larger capacity mSATA drive. i need some advice here. i would like to go 24oGB or larger. any problems? any suggestions?

    thanks in advance.
     
    DFW Guy, Jun 9, 2014
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  2. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    My pick would be Crucial M4 aka Micron C400 if you can find one in NOS condition. I've had it in one of my past X220T machines and was happy with it.

    Obviously, YMMV.
     
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  3. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Personally, I'd buy on price from a reputable brand and you should be good. From a performance perspective there's little difference between the drives. The chances you'll have a problem down the road are very small. So far I've used Intel, Plextor and Crucial mSATA SSDs, and haven't had trouble with any.
     
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  4. Pintu

    Pintu Notebook Consultant

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    The mSATA port in the X220 is only SATA-II, so any newer drive will be limited by the port, and not by its own speed. Pick whatever is cheap and reliable.
     
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    For typical usage like Office, Media and Internet there's little practical difference between SATA II and III because those tasks don't place much of a load on the controller. The benefit of a SSD is the latency, not the throughput. The latency is the same regardless of whether it's SATA I, II or III. The snappiest machine I've owned was my R60e running Linux, which was a SATA I machine.
     
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  6. Pintu

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    Of course, all I wanted to say with the Sata2-statement was that there is little to no benefit of buying the fastest mSATA drive available, given that the port is limited.
     
    Pintu, Jun 10, 2014
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