Intel 320 SSD Installation

I bought an Intel 320 120 GB SSD for my 13" June '09 MBP. When I plug it in to the SATA port and go to install OSX, it won't show the new drive. I just had my SATA cable replaced, as that shorted along with the old drive.
Thoughts?

May be your SSD is kaput. It happen to me. While SSD is fast, it's like thumb drive, NOT RELIABLE and EXPENSIVE

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Can we talk about the Intel 320 SSD? ...or "How to buy a 600GB brick."

So my refund from Amazon came in, for an Intel 320 SSD drive, which suffered from the "8MB glitch." Essentially, after the cloning process failed, the SSD became convinced it's really an 8MB thumb drive.
It bricks itself.
In a way, I was lucky. I didn't lose any data. I've read that the glitch can happen at any time, like after the drive has been in use for a long time. That means a user can have all their data on a big 600GB SSD and then, poof, it vanishes, OS and all.
Now I've heard that SSDs have shorter longevity than spinning hard drives, but my understanding is that an SSD would lose its write ability first, allowing the data to be harvested before it dies completely.
But an SSD bricking itself? No warning? Just like that? Jeez, that's scary.
For the record, I'm not that much of a techie. I just like to read, mildly compare processor stats, that sort of thing. I couldn't even begin to explain SSD benchmarks and that sort of thing. I just wanted an upgrade, and the X220 makes it so easy to replace the hard drive--it's just one screw! Having an expensive SSD brick itself on me like this was kind of my worst fear.
Thing is, I'd still like to get an SSD. What are my options? I don't want to case-mod a Crucial M4 or something, and the only other 7mm SSD I know of is the Samsung 830. I've read the 830 is a power hog, bad for battery life.
What are my options? Should I settle for the Samsung 830, or is it just better to get an mSATA SSD like the Nocti 120GB, and get a backup Momentus Thin spinning disk for data?

joncordova wrote:
I'll make sure to check the firmware if I get the Samsung 830.
The Samsung 830 is a different story. It's based on Samsung controller and their own nand flash. Of course the firmware version would be in a different system from the Intel ones. The early batch of the Samsung 830 Series is shipped with CXM01B1Q firmware, and the latest version is CXM02B1Q. The early version is not known to have any serious bug, but just worse write amplification and possible performance loss under continuous heavy load. It is recommended to update it to the latest firmware if it isn't yet.

Is Intel 160GB SSD in X220 SATA 3?

Anyone know if the X220's optional Intel 160GB SSd is SATA 3 yet?
Does anyone know its Intel model number?

Lenovo does not currently ship any SATA 3 drives. It is probably either the X25-M or an Intel 320 series. There have been reports of some recent orders shipping with a special (with a part number suffix) 320.
Edit: FYI the Intel 320 is only a SATA II SSD. The Intel 510 SSD is SATA III and does not come in a 160GB version.
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Intel 320 160gb SSD any issues with mac pro 2008?

Hi there.
I have a mac pro 2008. and Install Intel 320 160gb ssd. and boot...
It's shows black screen...
is any one has that issue? I tested that SSD with my old quad mac pro 2007, it works fine...
Please help me....

The 2600XT required 10.5.2+ and while it may 'look' like a G5 the Mac Pro is not. G5 refers to IBM PowerPC based, not Intel Xeon EFI based.
You're running 10.6.3, might want to update your profile itself.

X220 SSD Drive w/Full Disk Encryption (FDE), Intel 320 or others

Does anyone have experience or recommendations regarding installing an SSD with Full Disk Encryption for the X220?
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I have a 300GB Intel 320 which I installed it myself (cloned the factory install using Acronis). No mSATA drive.
Hope this helps!
I don't work for Lenovo. I'm a crazy volunteer!

Unable to use Intel 530 SSD with M5400

Hello!
I finally decided to write over here, after reading and viewing a lot of forums lately on this subject.
Context:
I have an Lenovo M5400 (but don't think this is definitory to the problem, as I've seen that the same simptoms seem to exist to other lenovo models as well) with the SSHD drive. I bought an Intel 530 SSD (don't think the brand mathers either) and wanted to replace the SSHD with it.
Upon replacing the original drive with the SSD, in order to make a clean windows install, the Windows 8 installer is unable to correctly detect my drive.
The drive is visible in the BIOS (at times?!) and seems to interfere somehow with the booting process, as sometimes, the boot stucks with a blank screen and the green light of the drive is on permanently. (this doesn't happen all the time).
What I tried:
1) At first, I had the drive unitialized: no GPT or MBR, no partitions on it. I tried to install it as such, but failed. It was not visible to the Windows installer, only in BIOS, in the boot order, I could see it. This was done in BIOS legacy mode.
2) I tried loading drivers in the Windows installer, via the "Load driver" option, when you get the message "W couldn't find any drives" or something like that. That was unsuccessful with the following: a) lenovo ahci drivers, from the online driver store, b) my previous windows drivers, which I took on a USB stick, c) some drivers from intel site.
3) At this point, the Intel firmware update bootable tool was not seeing my drive either.
4) I then initialized my drive by connecting it via a SATA-to-USB cable to my computer and repeated step 2), with no success still. I initialized it as MBR but I doubt that initializing it as GPT would have made a diffrence. I tried both with creating a primary and active partition and with leaving the drive initialized with all the space unallocated. No success.
5) I tried to update lenovo BIOS, because I suspect it's the cause of the problem, but was unable to do so. Downloaded the bios utility but it gives me an error "Bios folder ... ". With the bootable bios cd, it doesn't work: it doesn't boot. Has anyone managed to flash a newer bios? There is one posted on 09/30/2013 on the site, and my current one is 09/26/2013, as shown in BIOS.
6) I then fiddled with various BIOS modes: uefi, legacy, both with priority, but with no success.
At one point, I managed to see the drive in the windows installer, it was in UEFI mode only, with WIn 8 Optimized defaults ( I think) but I feared that it was just a single happening and didn't do anything, instead tried to see which settings worked in order to be able to reproduce this. I completly lost my chance, as after that, I didn't see the drive again in the windows installer. When it worked, I didn't have to load any driver. It saw it as MBR and prompted to format is as GPT, in order to use with UEFI booting.
The things I noticed:
On some occasions, in the bios boot order menu, the drive is identified as an Intel ssd, and on others just as an generic ATA HDD. I think there is a bad link between those two. When I reboot, restart, on some occasions I see it as the Intel drive and on others as the generic one. I think that in the case of generic drive, the windows installer has no chance on recognizing it.
When it is seen in the bios though, I get all sort of problems when trying to boot a CD or USB, as it seems to ignore them and get stuck in the boot process. I think that in this situations it correctly detects the SSD, if I were to look in the BIOS. But when I try to boot the CD or the USB in these situations, it just stucks with the green drive light permanently on, and with the CPU working on something ( I hear the fans starting) and the boot stops here indefinetly. I have to restart, and then, depending on the case, I get the same results, or I can boot the CD but don't find the drive.
I don't know by what chance I managed to "capture" it once in the windows installer but think this should be the common case.
After all these, what I suspect is that the Lenovo BIOS is broken somehow. It messes up with the boot order, because although I have priority for the DVD, the boot gets stuck on trying to do something with the SSD, as described above.
I am in the situation of returning the SSD back to the shop, as it is unusable with the current Lenovo m5400 motherboard/bios or whatever other hardware interferes with making it properly work ( ahci controller?).
I am very upset by this, and have seen that on these very boards, there are other posts as well, not on this model, but on other lenovo models, with the same scenarios and simptopms as mine, which didn't get any solution.
So, is there an answer to my problem? To update the BIOS? How to make the BIOS to not mess up with the boot order and get stuck? I tried all the possible combinations with no success and it's really frustrating.
Another update:
A lot of people seem to be having problem with the particular Intel 530 SSD. So this issue may not be related only to the motherboard/bios. I will post links to the corresponding threads from the intel boards:
https://communities.intel.com/thread/49389?start=15&tstart=0
https://communities.intel.com/thread/52959
https://communities.intel.com/thread/51111
Does anyone have any idea or hint if using other software for initializing the SSD than Computer Management/diskpart is of any help? Like EASUS partition manager or Gparted? Maybe the disk isn't partitioned correctly.
The disk isn't detected as an Intel SSD with the SATA-to-USB cable, instead being masked by it. Maybe this is another problem?

Hello! I have the same problem as you.
I tried to connect OCZ Vertex 2 60GBSSD but I failed. It has the same conntroller SandForce but the older generation.
Maybe that's the problem?
I was unable to install it on Windows 8.1, when I switched to the BIOS to ACHI mode Capability mode. But later he again loaded with it, then the BIOS will not see it to be.
I think the problem in the BIOS! I have 2.03 the latest.

X230: SATA errors with 180GB Intel 520 SSD under heavy write load

Hi,
We spent a couple of days cornering what appears to be an issue with the Intel 520 SSD drives in Lenovo x230 laptops. It was first showing up on a clean Debian installation, while installing a guest operating system into a VM. Looking around on forums, there appears to be some people having issues with database workloads too. So I decided to create a small user-space program to repoduce the problem. IMPORTANT: Before you try it, be ready for a system crash requiring a cold reboot.. It's available at:
git://git.efficios.com/test-ssd.git
direct link to .c file:
https://git.efficios.com/?p=test-ssd.git;a=blob;f=test-ssd-write.c;hb=refs/heads/master
This program simply performs random-access-writes of 4Kb into a single file.
Executive summary of our findings (the details are in the test-ssd-write.c header in the git repo):
- We reproduced this issue on 4 x230 machines (all our x230 have 180GB Intel drives, and they are all affected),
- We took a SSD from one of the machines, moved it into an x200, and the problem still occurs,
- The problem seems to occur independently of the filesystem (reproduced on ext3 and ext4),
- Problem reproduced by test-ssd-write.c (git tree above): After less than 5 minutes of the heavy write workload, we get SATA errors and we need to cold reboot the machine to access the drive again. Example usage (don't forget to prepare for a computer freeze):
./test-ssd-write somefileondisk 209715200 1234 -z
(see options by just running ./test-ssd-write)
The problem occurs with drive model SSDSC2BW180A3L, with both firmwares LE1i and LF1i (those are Lenovo firmwares). We could reproduce the issue on 3.2 (Debian), 3.5 (Debian), 3.7.9 (Arch) distribution kernels. We could reproduce it with x230 BIOS G2ET90WW (2.50) 2012-20-12 and G2ET86WW (2.06) 2012-11-13, but since it can be reproduced on a x200 too, it does not appear to be a BIOS issue.
We tried the program on a range of other SSD drives, one of those including the same SandForce 2281 controller (details within test-ssd-write.c header). So our current guess is that the Lenovo firmware on the SSD might be part of the problem, but it might be good if we could to confirm that Intel's firmwares work fine.
Thoughts, ideas, hints about who to contact on this issue would be very much welcome,
Thanks,
Mathieu

I can confirm the exact same problem with Debian and Ubuntu.
I can reproduce it easily on Debian by installing a VM.
On Ubuntu it is harder to reproduce but I already hit this problem when installing updates (dpkg does a lot of sync/fdatasync just like your test program).
I think the difference between the 2 distros that explain why it is easier to reproduce on one is the default I/O scheduler (cfq for Debian and deadline for Ubuntu).
Lenovo already completely replaced my laptop (X230 with SSDSC2BW180A3L) and I still have this problem.
We need a firmware fix.
Thanks !

Intel 330 ssd in 2008 MBP Unibody

My old hitachi HDD went on the fritz and I obviously don't want to replace the corrupt hard drive with another hitachi HDD. I'm looking for an SSD to install. I don't need a huge drive because my data's in the cloud for storage so I'm looking at the SSD.
I would like to purchase the intel 330 120gb SSD. Here are my basic specs:
MBP late 2008 unibody
2.8ghz processor
4gb ram
NVIDIA 9600
250gb Hitachi 2.5" HDD (this is the original corrupt drive I want to replace)
-How does TRIM work on the mac? Will I have TRIM issues with the intel 330? How do I go about this?
-Has anyone had any 1.5gb negotiation rate issues? How did you resolve them?
-Any other installation issues I should be aware of and workarounds for them?
Thank you, appreciate your help!

Hi TigerJessB
I have an Intel 330 SSD 180Gb in my mid-2009 Mbp Unibody (Cord 2 Duo 2,26Ghz, 8Gb Ram, Nvidia 9600) and it works fine. Support of trim is ok after using "Trim enabler" software from www.groths.org/?page_id=322.
Best regards

K9N platinum - AHCI for Intel x25 SSD

Hello... I intend to set up an 80Gb Intel x25 SSD 2nd Gen (Win 7 - 64bit) on my system in a week or so its a K9N platinum v1, apparently I need AHCI set on the SATA channel - looking through the BIOS setup (Rev1.8) I can't seam to find this option - would someone be kind enough to advise.
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I am quite certain that I do have the same motherboard. Here's a link to what I purchased:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130049
I looked through my manual as well and didn't say any mention of AHCI anywhere. I guess it's not supported?

IMac 2011 + Intel 510 SSD Performance

Yesterday I installed Intel`s SSD 510 (120GB) in my iMac 2011 27 inch (along with a 2TB WD Caviar black)
Today I did some testing and the results are somehow disappointing.
It would be great if other owners of Intel`s 510 can post some benchmark results! Here is mine:
Tested with AJA:
Write: 131,3
Read: 174,4
720x486 8-bit and 128mb file size
The 510 in system profiler:
Finally: xbench
The results should be WAY higher!?
Does anybody have a hint what I did wrong?

How did you manage to get the SSD and the 2TB drive in your new Imac? OWC said you couldn't update those internal parts. I am too looking to get an Imac 27" but I want to add my own SSD and 2TB drive similar to what you did. did you buy the imac with this set up already from apple? do you have to get the SSD/Harddrive combo from apple to have the parts needed for the replacement? thanks in advance.

X220 with Intel 310 ssd slow boot times

I recently bought an x220 i5-2520 and installed an intel 310 80GB ssd.
I cloned C: using the intel Acronis tools, updated all drivers and firmware and all works well.
However, my boot times are over 1 minute - much less than the 20-40 seconds I see posted on the web.
I have cleaned out a lot of unnecessary items from startup using msconfig, but no major difference.
It seems to me that most of the slowdown is happening after the login. It takes around 30 seconds after that to get to the desktop.
Why are my boots 2-3x slower than others?

Hi,
I'm running a slightly different configuration, with bios at 1.21, the I7 processor, the Intel 310 ssd and a samsung SSD in the primary drive. I generally average about 20 seconds to ready for input after inputting the HD & Windows password.
I did create the "Recovery" CD/DVD set and installed to the Intel 310 using the Recovery disks without any problem. My boot time included the standard Lenovo/ThinkPad software and usually that doesn't cause much delay.
My other software is iTunes, Office 2010, Picasa, Adobe PhotoShop, and VMWare (my real work). Even the virutal system run quit quickly.
What SW are you running?
I did a couple of tests with 320GB original HD, and boot time was only 2-3 seconds more.
Jim

SSD installation/ Memory compatibility

I have the mid 2012 (A1278; 2.9 GHz) MBP. I am thrilled with it so far, being able to carry high quality, high performance and do my work wherever is awesome. I work alot with image edit and design software and i'd like to increase the speed of my rendering times and the overall performance of my machine. Is it possible to purchase a SSD (Kingston, Crucial etc.) and install it myself without having to know to much kowledge about mac hardware? A few years back I built my own desktop PC (gaming rig) from ground up so I do atleast have my toes in the water as far as installing hardware goes. I assume not but will the guys at the apple store install my already purchased SSD into my machine (of course for a fee)?
My second question regards notebook memory. The MBP i bought came with the apple stated max 8gb ddr3 Ram (1600 MHz). Crucials website says that they can guarantee a 16gb ddr3 memory alternative compatible with these models. Is that true? Can i put more than 8 gb in my MBP without hurting the performance or capabilities of the machine. This assumes that I would still have the 1600 MHz speeds just at a greater capacity (16 gb).
Thanks much!

Oh, yeah, you can install a SSD - I've a Crucial m4 512GB installed in my late 2011 model. The 2011 models came with a user guide from Apple that walked you through installing a new HD/SSD - it's the same for the 2012, although they shipped no user manual. You can download the 2011 user manual, though, and follow the directions there.
Installing a SSD is a really simple procedure - here is a user tip about how to go about cloning your drive to use with your SSD installation.
Good luck,
Clinton

Please help! Major problems (performance and lock-ups) with brand new W520 with Intel 520 SSD

My company primarily uses HP machines but I've been a long time IBM (now Lenovo) fan so I recently had IT purchase me a new Lenovo W520 (product ID 42763LU).
Once the machine arrived I had them do the following:
Remove the 500GB HDD and replace it with an Intel 520 series 240GB SSD
Remove the optical drive and install the 500GB hard drive that came with the machine in the optical bay (with the bay adapter of course)
Format both drives and put a preconfigured windows 7 64-bit image on the SSD
A general summary of the system is the following:
Intel i7-2860QM CPU
8GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 1000M
Intel 520 240GB SSD (primary HDD) [SSDSC2CW240A3]
Hitachi 500GB HDD (optical bay) [HTS727550A9E365]
Intel Advanced-N 6205 network adapter
TouchChip Fingerprint Scanner
The machine was a few days delayed getting to me due to "hard drive driver issues" (that's what I was told). When I received the machine I immediately noticed that it was much slower than I expected (I have a custom built i5 HTPC at home running windows 7 on a Crucial SATA III SSD that I was comparing it to) and I was experiencing frequent hangs (ranging from 30 seconds to multiple minutes), super long boot times, general “slowness” at times, and occasional lock-ups. Since our "baseline" laptop here at work is the "equivalent" HP workstation my IT guys have been less than helpful in helping me to solve this issue. Being reasonably computer savvy I decided to try to try to fix the issue myself. I performed the following “troubleshooting” steps:
1. One of the first issues (errors) I noticed in the event viewer was errors related to the optical drive. Clearly the image they installed on the machine was not from a machine with the same hardware configuration. So, I decided to just wipe the machine and perform a fresh install of windows 7 from the disks (well, USB). After spending multiple days installing windows, performing updates, making sure all the drivers were current, and installing only the critical software I need, I was disappointed to realize that although I fixed the optical drive errors the machine was still slow, was hanging, and locking up regularly.
2. Removed the cover on the machine and removed/reinstalled the drive to verify it was secure.Everything looked good.
3. Verified the latest firmware is installed on all my Intel hardware. Everything seemed up to date.
4. I performed a number of troubleshooting steps like booting the machine with/without the battery, with/without the HDD in the optical bay, installed/removed from the docking station, etc. and none of these things helped (also a note – occasionally when running on the battery I was hearing a strange “buzz” or “static” sound coming from the area around the SSD).
5. Next I did some internet research and learned quite a few things. First, it sounds like others have had similar problems with this machine and/or SSD combo and there were quite a few options suggested to “fix” these issues. The general consensus for troubleshooting steps were:
5.1. Download and install the latest Intel chipset drivers and AHCI controller drivers (overwriting whatever windows installs during updates).This didn’t fix anything.
5.2. Turn off PCI express link state power management in the power manager. This didn’t fix anything.
5.3. Disable superfetch, prefetch, indexing, defragmentation, page file, system restore, and hibernate. A few of these were already disabled by windows so in those cases I just verified they were disabled in the services and application editor. These things may have slightly increased performance but did not fix the major hang/lockup issues I was having.
5.4. I followed online steps to edit the registry to disable the PCI link power management by adding ports, adding the required variables, and setting them all to 0. This did seem to have fixed the hangs and/or lock-ups but the machine is still much slower than I would expect (boot times are still pretty slow and it does “stutter” when I’m doing more than one thing at a time. Also a note here – I have the Intel SSD toolbox installed and I noticed that it was giving me a warning for DIPM not being optimized. I made the mistake of clicking “Tune!” and then started having the hang/lock-up issues again. I went back into the registry and sure enough the PCI link power management variables for ports 0 and 1 were set back to 1. I set them back to 0 and the hangs have gone away. I will not be “tuning” the DIPM through the Intel SSD toolbox again…
6. I also fixed a couple of other minor errors I was seeing in the event viewer by disabling benign services and/or making slight timeout modifications (I researched each issue on the internet to verify they were benign before I implemented any changes). These fixes didn't seem to do anything other than make some of the errors/warnings go away. So, the list of errors/warnings has become much smaller but I’m still getting the following (maybe an issue, maybe not?):
Event ID 37 for every processor saying that they are in a reduced performance state for xx seconds since the last report
Event ID 10002 - WLAN Extensibility Module has stopped
Event ID 4001 - WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped
Event ID 27 – Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection link is disconnected
I suspect the WLAN errors have something to do with windows fighting with the Lenovo access connection tools?
7. Since the machine still seemed slow I downloaded the program AS SSD and checked the performance of the SSD. When I compared my performance numbers to the benchmark numbers I found onlineI was very surprised to discover that I’m getting about 50% of the performance that I should (values below are read/write).
Seq: 262.11 / 188.32 (s/b 504.58 / 298.28) [MB/s]
4K: 15.83 / 44.92 (s/b 21.70 / 62.60) [MB/s]
4K-64Thrd: 165.23 / 154.46 (s/b 241.38 / 234.08) [MB/s]
Acc.time: 0.218 / 0.294 (s/b .0186 / 0.208) [ms]
Score: 207 / 208 (s/b 314 / 327)
Overall Score: 533 (s/b 797)
One more note - it seems like my cooling fan is running at a high speed almost all of the time. This is probably one of my power settings (I think I have it set for max performance) but it's even doing this when there is no load (i.e. I'm using IE and just vieweing webpages - like right now).
So, I apologize for such a long post but I’ve spent countless hours researching and troubleshooting this problem and haven’t been able to figure out what the heck is wrong here. Am I missing something simple or do you guys think I have a SSD and/or problem with the machine itself? To say that any and all help would be greatly appreciated would be a massive understatement – I’m on the verge of pulling my hair out and I really need this machine working as quickly as possible!
Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or need additional information. Thanks in advance for your help!
-Erik

Lol gotcha about the drive as an option. I didn't go SSD with mine. Do you have the latest firmware on your drive? It is supposed to be v1.97. Just checking (ah and I see item 3 so guess so). Do you have the SSD drive toolbox software installed?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Solid+State+Drives+and+Cach...)
Seems some useful tools are in there. I can't say much beyond that with the drive. Oh. Why does your fan always run at high speed? Can you describe that? I mean, are we troubleshooting the right kind of issue? Is there anything else going on with your system? I saw about the reduced core speeds message. what are your system loads like? Anything causing high cpu utilization? Could be something other than the drive causing your low numbers and lockups.

Lenovo U510 Intel Rapid Storage Installation

I got my new U510 and wanted a clean installation of Windows 8. So (as I am a Studen and can order it for free) i bought a Windows 8 Licence and reinstalled Windows 8. At first i thought it would be the best to use the SSD as System Partition but i noticed that 24GB are just to small.
So I Installed Windows 8 on a 100GB Partition on the 500GB HDD.
Then I installed Intel Rapid Storage from here: http://support.lenovo.com/de_DE/downloads/detail.page?&DocID=DS032591
After the installation and configuration (use all of the 22GB SSD for Rapid Storage) I rebootet but Windows doesnt want to start. It just shows a low line like this " _ ". No "missing MBR" or something.
The Windows repair features do not work and say the Windows partition ist "locked".
Can anybody help me? I dont want to have an SSD and not be able to use ist.

Hi
Welcome To Lenovo Community
We are really sorry to hear about the issue you are facing,
Please confirm under bios mode SATA controller working mode" as "RAID";
Configuration>Intel Rapid Start Technology", choose " iRST Support" – Enable
1. Press Fn+ F2 to enter BIOS
2. Choose "Configuration > SATA controller working mode" as "RAID";
3. Select "Configuration>Intel Rapid Start Technology", choose " iRST Support" - Enable
4. F10 to save and exit
You may wish to refer below thread which has complete guide on How To Reformat, Repartition AND Get Rapid Start & Rapid Storage Working!
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/The-Guide-on-How-To-Reformat-Repartition-AN...
Do give this a try and let us know
Hope This Helps
Cheers!!!
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Installing Intel 330 SSD in Mini 311c / Windows XP

I've recently installed a 120GB Intel 330 series SSD into my old Mini 311c-1101SA running Windows XP. I believe the motherboard has a Nvidia 730i chipset (GFX card is Nvidia ION LE).
Installation went fine and everything is up and running. I aligned the drive using the Norton Alignment tool.
However, drive performance is less than stellar. Driver benchmarks indicate a read speed of 127MB/s and write speed of 104MB/s. Furthermore, the Intel SSD Toolbox says it "cannot communicate with the drive" and that I need to update the storage driver.
Is this something I can sort out? Are there suitable drivers that I can slipstream into a new XP installation? Would upgrading to Windows 7 improve matters?

Hi , i got the same problem and that's what i did:
clicking the rigth buttom on the install .exe and extract it to a folder with winzip
After this go to the folder you've unzipped the install pack and double-click on setup.exe
It will ask the profile you want to install the product with and after choosing it , the installfield should start.
I hope this helps you : Anita

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