Is t431s msata SATA 2 or 3?

Since we don't have the ultrabay any longer here it theoretically could use 3? See subject.
Thanks, Jan
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Sorry for this late reply as I just got this information. T431s M.2 port is SATA-3 (6Gbps)

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T430s or T431s? and a key question concerning the T431s mSATA slot

T431s or T430s?
First let me apologize for my English, sorry if reading through this cause you any headache…
I gave away my T410 (bad bad decision) the day after I got a i7 Yoga 13 with 256G SSD, and bought a M4 256G which I planned to put in the free mSATA slot, only to find out i can't live with that yoga keyboard and that huge off-center touchpad which gets in the way all the time a few days later... anyway, end up returned that yoga13 and is using my heavily abused limping T500 now with a replaced motherboard... I was looking to go back to thinkpad and buy a T430s right away but Lenovo announced T431s one day afterwards. now i dont know what to choose, although leaning towards T431s a little bit.
things i'm looking for in my next laptop: first X1C is not an option for me, I can’t accept that screen with high dot pitch.
l weight: less than my T410, it doesnt have to be light as an Acer S7 or Samsung 9, just reasonably lighter, and as slim as possible.
l Processing power: doesn’t really matter, anything i5 or i7, M or U… all fine to me, I can run Lightroom, DPP and video processing applications on my desktop and I don’t play games. 8G or more RAM is needed.
l Storage: comes with 256GB SSD or user upgradeable to 256GB SSD is an absolute minimum requirement, but I really prefer any flexibility to configure a second drive, HDD or SSD, is a big plus, preferably HDD as the second drive.
l Screen: wouldn’t mind squeezing my eyes on a FHD screen, but I can only settle on a 900p, afterall I’m looking for a thinkpad, have to live with that screen, right?
l Tough… every one of my laptop gets dropped once or twice… many many times in the case of my old T410… so it needs to be tough…
l Not much else…
So, T431s is lighter, slimmer, user replaceable 7mm SSD, mSATA available (a concerning question later), all good, and I like the new look. And I don’t care much about the indicators, lid lock, flipped logo or that new touchpad (I think I can manage, maybe…).
So what do I have to sacrifice if I choose T431s? removable battery, ultrabay for optical drive and HDD, full voltage cpu, and possibly a couple hundred dollars… since we don’t know for sure how much optional parts will cost in customized build, and of course the risk of buying an unproven, newly designed product. Did I miss any other key point?
If I didn’t miss many advantages that T430s have, I probably should go with T431s, it was all good until I found a video which shows how to disassembled a T431s (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTI5NzIxMzg4.html) and at about 4 mins in, it shows that the WWAN card is secured by a single retaining screw in the middle on the outer edge, unlike typical mSATA SSD which should be secured on the 2 corners of the board. Does this mean users can no longer install a mSATA SSD on T431s? if so, I can only have one 7mm SSD instead of having OS installed on a 256G mSATA, and have a 500G HDD to storage all the photos and videos, which I was intended to do, that maybe a deal breaker…
I don’t really understand these hardware upgrades, can some one please tell me for sure whether the mSATA slot on T431s, as shown in the video, can be used to intall a regular mSATA SSD. If I can, I’ll probably still struggle to make the decision, if it can’t be used to install SSD, T430s it is.
Any help is appreciated!
Kai
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thanks, yes, it's the new NGFF M.2, and the new form factor is a lot more complicated than the old mSATA slot, different dimensions for different storage size, and it maybe single side for WWAN, cashe drive, or double side for actual SSD perfermance...
if i'm gonna get a T431s, i'll just buy the 320G 5400RPM low end drive, make a recovery media from Win8, and reset to factory setting after intall a 512GB 840 Pro, or the much cheaper M4...

Any ideas on the best Config for RAID-0 on the Precision M6800 using SSD's (and the mSATA slot)

Hi, I have an M6800 on order that has a single 500GB 7200RPM hard drive. I am going to upgrade the storage the day it arrives (removing the 500GB drive and not utilizing it at all). I plan on setting up an SSD RAID-0 array and want to take advantage of the mSATA slot if possible.
I thought of using the 2TB 2.5" Seagate/Samsung Momentus SpinPoint ST2000LM003 hard drive for storing unused vhd\vhdx files as well as video and photos, then using an SSD RAID array for the OS, Applications, Data and any active vhd's.
Is it possible to set up RAID-0 using the mSATA SSD slot and the primary internal hard drive slot?  I want to use those 2 drive connectors so I can still use the 2TB 2.4" regular notebook hard drive without removing the Blu-Ray Writer? I plan to write video to Blu-Ray discs that will be stored on the internal 2TB drive, so removing the optical drive is something I want to avoid.
As a general question, Is there any advantage to using RAID with SSD's, or would a single 1TB mSATA SSD in the mSATA slot be nearly as fast in real world use as a 2 disk SSD RAID? Would I have a noticibly quicker boot time and application load time if using SSD RAID? I know the speed test specs show large increase in performance, but will the computer really run a lot faster with 2 x 500GB SSD in RAID-0 as opposed to getting a single 1TB SSD card for the mSATA slot?
I was planning on getting the Samsung Evo 840 SSD 2.5" drive and the matching Evo 840 mSATA card. There is a Samsung 850 series drive, but it is only available in 2.5" (mSATA is not available in the 850 as far as I can tell).
Please suggest the best solution that is compatible with the M6800 or provide any information that might help.
Thanks

Hi Ential,
Thanks for the info, I thought my question would go unanswered forever. I posted the question in January, and I have since set up the computer. Below I will detail my research and the configurations of drives that I have used on my M6800 since the time I posted the question you answered. Perhaps the results of my research and testing might help you.
I originally I bought the same exact model SSD's that Dell sells with the computer thru their website;    the LiteOn 512GB drives (mSata & SATA), I configured them in RAID-0. The LiteOn drives are sold under the brand name Plextor, I found the proper model numbers by looking at the SSD drive firmware upgrade file from the Dell support website.
From what I understood, my RAID-0 drive consisting of the 2 LiteOn drives had impressive performance using the AS SSD benchmark program, I was getting performance scores over 1600 back in February.
I have since changed to the Samsung EVO 850 1TB drives and again created a RAID-0 drive, one SATA drive and one mSata drive totaling 2TB. This drive array is getting AS SSD performance scores over 1900. I contacted Samsung to get some advice on the configuration of the drives and I got some interesting advice that seemed to help a lot:
Samsung told me to leave 200GB of the drives (100GB each) unallocated when I partitioned the drives, this is generally referred to as "overprovisioning" (which you probably knew already).  I initially thought that overprovisioning could only be configured by the Samsung Magician software and a special process needed to take place to tell the firmware to utilize a specific amount of drive space for overprovisioninng.  The Samsung support agent told me that the Samsung SSD firmware (on both mSata and SSD) automatically uses any unallocated space as overprovisioned space (they are basically the same thing to the drive firmware) and it increases performance in a very noticible way when you have sustained use of the drive and/or durinng the time in between the TRIM process (garbage collection). The unallocated space is used by the firmware to write data to while blocks of data are awaiting internal wiping initiated by the TRIM process.
Since I have 200GB of unallocated space, I am able to have more sustained deletion and writing of data between TRIM/Garbage Collection runnninng than I would ever utilize without affecting the performance of the drive. Basically most SSD drives have performance decrease throughout the day until the TRIM process is completed by the drives firmware, so Samsung instructed me to leave at least 10% of the drive space unallocated to limit that problem. Smaller drives likely need a higher percentage of space unallocated as compared to larger drives since the daily amount of read/write operations is typically the same regardless of drive size.   The amount of space left unallocated/overprovisioned is based upon the amount of read/write operations done on any given drive, not based on the size of the drive itself. If you run drive intensive applications, you would then want to overprovision more GB of drive space, if you have light use of the drive then you can overprovision/unallocate less GB of drive space (all of the configuration info regarding overprovisioning and TRIM was given to me by a Samsung specialist over the telephone - I called their tech support phone number and got a storage specialist to talk to me).
I will look into the SATA version on the optical bay, I never thought about that with this computer. My prior computer was a Dell XPS 17 3D (L702X) notebook which had 2 internal 2.5" SATA, in which I installed an optical bay drive. On that specific computer the optical bay was technically an SATA 3, but due to design constraints it couldnt run at that speed since there was voltage leakage across some pathways in the chipset when the optical bay has read-write throughput that is typical of a hard drive (as opposed to much less data transfer typically seen on an optical drive).  The M6800 can be factory configured with an optical bay hard drive, so I suspect it can support one properly. The XPS 17 was not available with an optical bay drive as an OEM configuration from Dell, so it couldnt be expected to properly support one. The design issue with the voltage leak across the chipset pathways on the XPS 17 was known by Dell, but due to the low bandwidth of an optical drive, the problem never occured with any of the factory OEM configurations.
It is possible that the optical bay hard drive offered by Dell (the exact OEM Drive installed by Dell) could have an internal limitation to SATA 2 due to a similar design limitation. It would not be surprising if an SATA channel designed for optical drives had SATA 2 speed since I suspect there is no SATA Optical drives that could use more than 3GB/s of data anyway.
I purchased 2 of the 2TB 2.5" hard drives that Dell uses for OEM configurations for this computer, they are Samsung 5400 RPM drives. I have one in a 2.5" internal bay and the other in the optical bay - I converted my Blu Ray Recorder/Writer drive to an external drive. I will do some extended time speed tests on the optical bay drive to see if its performance matches the internal drive (which is the same exact model drive - I have 2 of the same Seagate 2TB drives installed with the same firmware).
I use the pair of 2TB drives to store .vhd and .vhdx drives for test platforms for Hyper-V machines. The virtualized servers with high hard drive utilization get moved to the SSD RAID-0 array, the rest are stored on the 4TB rotational drives.
If you have any questions or comments for me, please let me know. I will see what info I can find on the optical bay SATA revision for this notebook, I am very curious to find out if it is in fact SATA 2. I will let you know what my test results are, I will try to use the AS SSD benchmark program, I believe it will work with rotational drives, otherwise I will find another benchmark utility - do you have a recommendation on which to use?
Thanks again for your info and for pointing out the possible limitation of the optical bay..

Installing SSD in customized HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 CTO Entertainment Edition Notebook

I have a customized dv6t-7000 entertainment notebook and I would like to install an SSD to boot the OS. According to the manual, or at least from vague pictures in the manual, the SSD installs directly to the motherboard. It doesn't specify what type of SSDs the available replacement parts are and I can't view the specifics on the HP parts replacement website either. I am wondering what type of SSDs are compatible with the port in the laptop, is it for mSATA (SATA II or III) or for 2.5" SSDs. I don't know too much about SSDs, but I want to be able to find a compatible part. I currently use the optical drive, so I don't want to switch it out for a hard drive chasis. I understand that method would use a 2.5" SSD. If anyone can clarify what type of port is in the laptop and what SSDs are compatible, that would be awesome!
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Here is the Service Manual which will be helpful:
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If your laptop is an Intel model then you have an mSSD slot which looks like a wireless slot.
See Page 71. Unfortunately the mSSD slot is a bear to access. If taking the laptop almost all the way apart is something you can do, then an mSSD is in the cards for you. If not, I strongly suggest simply replacing the mechanical drive with a 2.5 inch SATA SSD drive. Even if you can get the mSSD installed, configuring the system to boot from the mSSD is also very hard if you also want to have a regular hard drive for storage. It is easier to apply the mSSD as an acceleration cache drive, making the main hard drive perform more like an SSD.
This is one of our more "advanced" topics here so if you have any more questions please post back and we can help some more.

W520 won't start: on/off button just flashes

Help!
Can't turn on w520. Power button flashes with 1s intervals
From power off, when press then round on/off button, the following happens:
1) power button starts flashing
2) DVD drive makes its startup noise.
3) power button continues flashing.
At this point nothing works, have to pull power plug.
No thinkpad splash logo, no way to get to bios.
Have tried the following:
1) removing power and battery for 10 mins
2) pressing the power button 30 times with no power or battery.
3) as above with 5s between presses.
4) holding down power button for 20s
5) removed all memory, msata , sata and DVD drive
Nothing had an effect.
Is it bricked?

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Below are snippets from the applicable pages in the pdf file, but I'd highly recommend having the full manual at hand, however possible, so that you can see better detail and any warnings.
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Adding SSD to Acer Nitro VN7-591G

Hello! I have a subjected laptop in configuration without SSD (only hybrid HDD).How do I know about mSATA or M.2 ports presence inside?Or should I replace HDD with 2.5'' SATA-III SSD ? Thanks for attension.

For All, I ended up trying and successfully installing and migrating Windows 8.1 to this one based on IronFly's details about the Lite-on SSD that comes in some models of the V17 preinstalled. (Acer won't le tme post a URL, but I got this model: Crucial MX200 CT250MX200SSD4 M.2 Type 2280SS (Single Sided) 250GB SATA 6Gbps (SATA III) Micron 16nm MLC NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)) Newegg is no tax for me, but I'm sure Tiger Direct or Amazon have their sales as well.The 500GB version was on sale last week for $179, but I didn't need that much space. I just keep My Documents off of Shortcuts on the 1TB HDD. Win 8.1 plus all of my Programs and Apps only take up 67 GB for me. Add about 32 GB to that for Swap and Hibernate (based on 16GB RAM after upgrade) and I live within 256GB minus formatting just fine with that big 1TB HDD also installed. If you do use a Crucial MX100 or MX200 drive, be aware that Acronis 2015 will not work. It will hoze up / freeze up your Windows install. You must use some other cloning program like Paragon Hard Drive Manager. I did the USB stick bootable image to do my migration. Any M.2 (not MSATA) SATA (not PCIe) size 2280 will work. You could probably use an M.2 to MSATA adapter as well for the older standard 50mm MSATA, but why bother unless you're using an MSATA you already have. The teardown is here: It's not English, but you can clearly see what he's doing. (Acer won't let me post URL, but just search Bing Video for "Acer V17 disassemble" and it should be the first video - spoken in Deutch or German) I used a credit card to separate the palm rest over the optical drive area, (which the guy in the video does not do - I couldn't do it with my fingers) and worked my around.Make sure you remove the silver bar by the hings also - there's 2 screws under there.Be careful and go slow - you don't want to break off any of the tiny little black tabs.Don't mix up the screws either - there are 2 bigger ones that go underneath near the hinges. The rest of the black screws are all the same size. There are a a few Silver screws inside that are smaller for the WLAN card, USB board, etc. You'll need an extra one of those screws to mount the M.2 on the underside of the board. I canibalized an old 2.5 inch HDD and took a screw from the case with a Torx head - luckily it's the same thread size. That small silver screw is very hard to find otherwise, but I did find another one off an old PCIe desktop video card I had. Home Depot or Lowes will not carry screws that small. The M.2 slot is tough to get to, you have to do a complete palm rest lift and board lift - but just go very slowly so you don't break anything. You have to lift up the entire main board. Go slow, have a flashlight, tiny phillips head, credit card, extra screw, and a small pick (I used a dentist scraper hook) to push open the keyboard plug latches (but a tiny flat blade screwdriver will work also).And be careful to ease out the Audio jack from the right side as it is wedged under a tiny lip of the bottom shell.Go slow, and have a small bowl to hold all those tiny screws. It's all about having a good open space to work, tools, container, time, screw, etc.I have taken apart many computers before, but this one was the most involved I've done. They did a good job with the thinness and lightness, but there is Zero user access. So if you're expecting something easy to upgrade and disassemble like a Lenovo T series - change your expectations, it is more involved. That's what you get for thin, light, and good air flow - tradeoffs. Also if you're going to do a 16GB RAM upgrade also, I recommend doing that at the same time. You don't want to open up the computer twice - those tiny little black clips tend to break often.

SSD drive replacement

Still undecide between this system and Vizio. This one got the touch screen that I like and very much lean toward this system but have one question:
SSD drive: can I install this one instead of the Samsung?
SanDisk Extreme SSD 120GB GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s2.5-Inch Solid State Drive- SDSSDX-120G-G25

My system A720 25642FU 27"
it has 750GB hard drive and I am buying Crucial SSD CT064M4SSD3 64GB mSATA SATA III 6Gb/s
Both from Amazon. I noticed the above system doesn't have SSD so I wanted to upgrade.
1. Is SSD compatibla with the system?
2. Can I do the restore/repair to have OS onto the SSD?
Thanks in advance

HELP! GE70 shows _ or - after MSI logo, cannot reboot or enter OS

I was working on my GE70 today. Suddenly it froze, hot reboot did not work, so I had to pressed the power button to turn off the laptop. When I turned it on, it only showed a white - or _ character with a black background after the MSI logo, and it stuck there. I had to power off and on again, and pressed the F11 button this time, it entered into BIOS directly (it is weird that it did not show the Boot Menu as usual). It still showed the white - or _ after leaving BIOS, I thus had to power off and on the again. Since this point, I have never been able to enter BIOS.
I tried the following, none of them make a miracle.
1. uninstalled and installed HD drive
2. uninstalled and installed memory sticks
3. reset EC
I found a post describing the same symptom at https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=252292.msg1450679#msg1450679 , but I was not able to locate the battery for CMOS.
Has anyone encountered the similar issue? I really want to fix it without sending the laptop to MSI, as it seems a long journey...

Problem resolved
The issue was caused by the boot SSD. According to the conversation with the support, the white dash may indicate a defective boot device.
Today I plugged the SSD with an mSATA-SATA adapter, and connected it to another computer. The SSD was recognized as an unformatted disk in the Disk Management. I had to format it and placed it back in GE70. Then I restored Windows 8 to SSD with the Recovery Image created before. GE70 can restart as usual!
However, I still don't have the access to BIOS. It keeps showing the little white dash after pressing F3.
I searched the forum and found the following helpful posts. Since I am able to log into Windows 8, I simply executed FLASHWIN64.BAT in CMD.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=250946.msg1444612#msg1444612
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=176704.msg1301051#msg1301051
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=184427.msg1323582#msg1323582
Now everything works again! I need to figure out why the SSD crashed and became unformatted, which triggered the nightmare.

GS60 2QE VS GS70 2QE | CPU Fan managment

Hello,
So i've actually ordered the msi gs70 2QE stealth silver edition.
When i unpacked it, i have been very surprised by the actual size of the device. I tried it, it is everything I expected, but the size of the notebook is too much for me.
So i decided to order the msi gs60 2QE ghost pro, which has a 15" screen with the exact same specifications, less ports, but basically, same core, same GTX970M, same ram.
I unpacked it and i am very happy about the size, everything seems better designed, and the size is just what i need.
But i had another sad surprise with this one when i turned it ON.
The computer's fan makes a lot of noise, nothing like the GS70 2QE
I don't get it, it seems like it has been configured differently.
The CPU is always around 38°C on GS60 and CPU fan run all the time at 2891 RPM.
When on the GS70, CPU is always around 48° at 0 RPM, fan run rarely at 3000 RPM to cool down for a sec.
I love a 1000 time more the GS70 configuration.
I don't understand why MSI didn't make the same on the GS60.
Is there any particular reason?
It gets really annoying when you're just quietly reading an article browsering online.
Please MSI, do something about it. It literrally kills the good experience I had on GS70 that i returned.
My feelings are mixed about the purchase I just made, when it should be excellent. All of this just due to really annoying constant fan noise

Quote from: RX-8 on 16-February-15, 08:24:30
Considering the difference of the size between GS60 & GS70, I don't think their thermal characteristics would be the same.
The size of the fan (the volume of air flow), the length of the copper pipes, the number of the fins near the outtake and etc., are all different.
here you can see diffirence
MSI GS60
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keep in mind GS70 picture is from a 2013 version since that version only had 2x msata + sata at that time but version 2014 and up has 3x msata slots + sata

Does w530 msata support 6Gbps SATA III?

Hi everyone, I know W520 mSATA support 3 Gbps connection. but by launching new mSATAIII SSDs I hope W530 with Ivy Bridge and QM77 chipset suports 6 Gbps connection.
thanks for any Idea or references abaut it?
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Since my general recommendation for a normal SSD is the Samsung 830, my recommendation for an mSATA SSD is the Samsung PM830. The PM830 is the Samsung 830 in a mSATA format. It is also somewhat future-proof in the sense that it is capable of SATA III speeds.
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MSATA or SATA III Drive

Hello,
I currently own a T420-4177CTO with a 160GB SSD drive and am running out of space. Without taking any covers off I believe this is installed in the main bay underneath the unit. After some research I believe I have a couple of options. One would be to simply upgrade the existing SSD to a larger SATA III 512GB SSD in the same slot, which as I understand it is SATA III capable -about $500.00. Second option would be to add an mSATA drive to the available slot on the side of the unit ( not the ultra bay) and move mostly storage files to that new drive - about $260.00. The read / write speeds look to be similar but the power consumption for the mSATA is higher and it might be a bit slower. My guess is that it will be faster than the current factory installed drive so that should not be a concern. Are those assumptions correct ? If so should I take the opposite approach and move the operating files to the newer drive ?
Thanks.

Your current SSD is a Intel 520 if i am correct, since Lenovo offered intel ssd in the 160 gigs capacity. If it is the Intel one, then your mSATA will be slightly slower in terms of boot up (by 1 or 2 secs at most), and other data bandwidth intensive apps.
For normal use mSATA and 2.5 inch SATA is about the same.
I am currently on a mSATA 128 gigs and 500 gigs hdd in the main bay, and the performance difference compared to a pure Intel 520 that i had before is minimal.
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Does the HP Envy 17t line have 2 SATA bays or 1 SATA and mSATA?

Does the Envy 17t line have 2 drive bays? If so, is it 2 SATA bays or 1 SATA and 1 mSATA? Also, on the hardware selection screen:
If I choose that option, will you guys at HP install Windows on the SSD, instead of on the hard drive? I found 256GB SSDS that are a lot cheaper than $295, but I searched around and found that HP apparently puts a restriction on the BIOS that prevents you from booting from an internal drive that you added.
EDIT: Perhaps I could also get the 256GB SSD and add my own hard drive. But I still need to know if it has 2 SATA or 1 SATA and 1 mSATA.
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1337iscool wrote:
banhien wrote:
Hi,
You have not read the manual, I meneioned page numbers for you too. It has one M.2 slot/bay and 1 normal 2.5" bay. I also mentioned: "replacing HDD on new machines now is not as easy as before and in some cases, would void warranty too"
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OK, so....
1) why do you expect me to read the whole manual?
2) I am aware that replacing a hard drive will void warranty. I am not planning to replace a hard drive but rather add a hard drive in the second drive bay.
What I need to know is what hard drive ports are there, mSATA, 2 SATAs, etc. I have no idea what they mean when they say "support M.2 SATA". Does that mean it supports M.2 SATA or is it an M.2 SATA port??
EDIT: apparently M.2 SATA is only for SSDs, since I can't find any M.2 SATA hard drives.
So what I know now is that there's 1 M.2 bay for an SSD, but I don't know what type of port the second drive bay has.
Hi,
You did not read my reply too: I did not tell you to read the whole manual, I read it for you and clearly noted : " Please also check the following manual (page #2 and page #66) " The manual also show you port and type of the SSD 22 something, I will let you to find out.
Good luck.
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X230 mSATA working at SATA 2 speeds

I installed a MyDigitalSSD 256GB Smart Series SATA III but I only seem to be getting SATA 2 speeds.
Lenovo sales rep said that the x230 is SATA 3 for the mSATA slot, and CrystalDiskInfo seems to confirm this as it reports Transfer Mode as SATA/600, though HD Tune reports it as SATA 2.
Here are the results I get:
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while benchmarks from reviews look like this:
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I checked that the BIOS is set to AHCI.
Any other ideas what might be happening?
thanks
Vicentiu
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The mSATA slot is SATA2.

SATA 6Gb/s support with mSATA slot in the T530?

How would I find out if the mSATA slot in my T530 will support SATA 6.0 Gbps? I have an Intel 7 Series/C216 Chipset with a core i7-3520M.
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I used the forum's Search function. That led me to several posts including T430s mSATA speed? (see someotherguy's post of 11-06-2012 09:54 AM) and T530, what are the sata speeds? (see lead_org's post of 20-11-2012 12:35 PM.) Both are well-informed and well-respected posters on this site.
Cheers... Dorian Hausman
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X220 msata slot compatible with SATA III

I do have a msata II 60gb in my x220, but would like to upgrade it with a bigger model from http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT120M500SSD3
that one is msata III but claims to be SATA 2 compatible.
Will this combination work with my x220? In another blog post I read that it has major drawbacks (much slower) to use a msata3 drive in a msata2 slot. Is that true?

@ritzdank...
I can't comment on Sandforce-based SSDs, but the Crucial m4 mSATA uses a Marvell controller.
This article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6884/ states that the m500 is also Marvell-based.
Please post back with your impressions once you're up and running on the SSD.
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