mSata for W520

I just wanted to quickly confirm....is this the mSata SSD that will fit inside the W520 in the WWAN slot?



Newegg.com - Intel 310 Series (Soda Creek) SSDMAEMC080G2C1 mSATA 80GB mSATA (mini PCIe form factor) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - SSD

Reply 1 : mSata for W520

Yes. There is no other mSATA drive around other than the 40GB version.

Reply 2 : mSata for W520

I opened up my W520 just to take a look (I ordered mine without the WWAN option), and there is a little piece of placeholder material and the leads for the WWAN sitting there with covering on the ends.



If I didn't know better, it's almost as if Lenovo is wanting us to buy those Intel 310s and put them in our W520s.

Reply 3 : mSata for W520

At $190, it appears that the 128 GB C300 SSD at $200 and about $40 for the ultrabay caddy is a far better deal unless you need the optical drive a lot.



Well maybe not. You get 2/3rds of the C300s space, fast boot times, get to keep your HDD in the Slot 0 and can keep the optical drive in the machine at very little increased cost/GB over the C300/Ultrabay Caddy combo.



Perry

Reply 4 : mSata for W520

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Originally Posted by pkincy At $190, it appears that the 128 GB C300 SSD at $200 and about $40 for the ultrabay caddy is a far better deal unless you need the optical drive a lot. Well maybe not. You get 2/3rds of the C300s space, fast boot times, get to keep your HDD in the Slot 0 and can keep the optical drive in the machine at very little increased cost/GB over the C300/Ultrabay Caddy combo. Perry

Where do u get the ultrabay for $40? I thought it was $60.



Also, what's a good price for a 320GB (or 500GB) 7200rpm HDD?

Reply 5 : mSata for W520

^^^ The Ultrabay Hard Drive Adapter III is $60. 320GB 7200rpm HDD around $55, maybe less if your watch for daily deals on Newegg.

Reply 6 : mSata for W520

So, I just bought an mSata 80GB as my boot up drive. Currently I have Windows which came with the laptop and I installed a dual boot Ubuntu 11.04 beta.



Can anyone help me out with what I need to do to make the mSata my boot up drive for Windows and Ubuntu (and my applications like Matlab, ...) and then partition the 500GB HDD correctly (I guess I should ask whether I actually need to do that in the first place)?

Reply 7 : mSata for W520

There may potentially be 3 bootable drive: mSATA, main drive, Ultrabay drive. You edit the boot sequence in BIOS to set the mSATA as the first. With F12 on ThinkPad start-up, you can select another boot drive other than the default.



One idea: How about putting Ubuntu on (a partition of) the main drive?

Reply 8 : mSata for W520

What's the install order? Windows 7 first or linux? Does the Windows BDE thingy understand linux?

Reply 9 : mSata for W520

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Originally Posted by Thors.Hammer What's the install order? Windows 7 first or linux? Does the Windows BDE thingy understand linux?

Traditionally you'd install windows first, because linux always was a much better "neighbour" and respects other OS already installed.



It's possible that the windows installer has finally cought up though...