Max capacity SSD drive in T440p Ultrab

I have a T440p laptop. What is the max capaciity SSD that can be installed in the Ultrabay ?
I think I can use this 512 GB SSD drive
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ieweb/LenovoPortal/en_IE/catalog.workflow:item.detai...
using this adapter
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ieweb/LenovoPortal/en_IE/catalog.workflow:item.detai...
Thank you

My advice: Buy a 1TB Samsung EVO at Amazon or somewhere local if you have a place. Image your existing drive to it, and swap it out. And keep your optical drive.
That Lenovo drive is way, way, way overpriced.

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Max capacity hard drive for x61 7675a29 model

hi guys,
i'm new to this product though the model i have is a refurbished one but seems it performs well enough for my needs. but however, i'm thinking of an upgrade particularly the hard drive. but before that i would like to ask for an opinion regarding hard derive capacities that this unit is capable of running. i'm planning for a 500GB seagate momentus XT.
my specs for this unit:
C2D 2ghz / L2 is 2mb
ddr2 667mhz @ 4gb
hd- 160gb
video- x3100
windows 7 ultimate 64bit

I have the seagate 500 gig in my X61s.
Currently the laptop hdd is limited by the physical dimension rather than capacity.
X61 have to use 9.5 mm thick 2.5 inch hdd...
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K8n neo2 hard drive max capacity problem

My 160 gig hard drive shows a max capacity of 33 gigs. I've read on the Western Digital support site that it's a Bios issue. I'm using the 1.1 bios.
When I try to reinstall the hd, i make the boot disk using the Data Lifeguard tools, but when i try to boot from either the floppy or even the cd itself, some informations shows up in dos while it's loading the program, but the program never actually starts. The HD has the Master jumper setting as it is the only hd on that IDE cable, my raptor is in sata port 3.
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To get 48 bit addressing needed to access more than 128 GB, you need Windows XP SP1 or 2 or Windows 2000 SP3 or 4. You also have to add a registry entry - see
http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglba.htm or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305098
I'm not sure why you don't see 128 GB unless you are using an older version of windows (is this the case?). I would expect any motherboard made in the last year, especially the Nforce 3 motherboard, to handle the 48-bit addressing. I would suggest checking the drive jumpering very carefully, noting as one of the other posters has indicated, that the WD drives are jumpered differently for master with slave or master by itself. Normally, I prefer to use Cable select with the 80 wire/40 pin ultra ata type cables. This way one can move drives around without changin the jumpers. Also, it is easy to tell which drive is the master (the one on the end of the cable).
Another solution is to use a Promise Ultra100 TX2 or equivalent controller. The promise driver handles the 48 bit addressing.
Robert

Mac Pro 2009 SSD Drive

I know there have been other topics related to this, but I haven't been able to find a straight answer about what drives would be the best. I'd like to be sure before I buy anything.
At the moment I have a Mac Pro with just a 1TB drive that came with it from the factory. I want to install a SSD drive as the boot drive, but i'm a bit confused as to which one to go for. By looking through forums, a lot of people seem to be saying Intel make the best drives? Am I wrong?
I was thinking of this drive:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN
Is there another around the same capacity that would work better and is maybe a bit cheaper? ~64gb would work too. I see the Kingston ones are cheap, but their read/write speeds seem poor.
This one looks good too:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-079-SA&groupid=701&catid =14&subcat=910
I was thinking of getting two if I can afford it so I can have windows on one of them to play games. But it would probably work out cheaper to get a 128gb drive and partitioning it, wouldn't it?
Any help would be appreciated!

Hi Steve,
OCZ replaced my Agility EX 60GB SLC SSD with their much more expensive, top of their range Vertex EX SLC SSD.
The reason for OCZ doing this was that the Agility EX had been discontinued. According to OCZ, the reason was: "We no longer get the Nand that is on the drive, not that there is anything wrong, we just don't have a competitive source for it."
This sounds like a reasonable explanation to me, because the Agility EX was extremely competitively priced compared to other Single Level (Layer) Cell SSDs. Also, it used Intel NAND, whereas, according to third party reviews, their other SSDs use Samsung. Perhaps Intel didn't like OCZ selling Single Level (Layer) Cell SSDs at a price much lower than Intel's own 'E' Series of SLC SSDs, and so they upped the price of their NAND to OCZ? It seems plausible.
I did a clean install of the Mac OS and all my applications, and I am very happy with the result. Start up time has been more than halved, and applications launch like greased lightning, even Aperture 2 which used to be a bit of a pig!
The only downside, as far as I am concerned, is that, apparently, it is impossible to update the firmware on a 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro. The Vertex EX came with version 1.3, which is equivalent to 1.4 on other OCZ SSDs, but 1.5 was released at the end of January. "Samsara" had raised the problem of OCZ firmware updates in a post on another thread, and I took this up with OCZ.
The last I heard from them was on10th. February, when they commented:
"1.3 on the EX drives = 1.4 revision on the other drives.
Have you tried to boot with one of the update CD's?
Let me see if I can find a solution, the problem being that the program that checks the SSD for the proper FW, has to be able to write the file somewhere. This is done through a ramdisk, which is part of the boot on the CD."
Obviously, they have yet to find a solution to this problem!
Despite the fact that the 1.5 firmware update would make the Vertex EX even faster, it is still an extremely fast drive.
However, if I had waited another 2 months before ordering an SSD (I bought the Agility EX last December), I would definitely have ordered the OWC Mercury Extreme, even though it would have meant importing it from the USA.
OWC are primarily a Mac friendly company, whereas OCZ, Intel and other SSD manufacturers pitch their products at the PC market.
The reviews of the OWC Mercury Extreme speak for themselves.
This "folk" says "NO BRAINER! BUY THE OWC MERCURY EXTREME!"
Regards, Bill
PS
MacFormat UK reviewed the following 120/128GB capacity SSDs in the issue I referred to earlier:
Crucial M225, Imation M-Class, Intel X25-M Mainstream, Kingston SSD Now V-Series, OCZ Agility Series, Patriot Torqx, Transcend, and Transcend Ultra.
The winner ( 4 out of 5 stars) was the Crucial M225. The ratings were based upon 3 tests - Value, Extras, and Speed.
Although the Kingston scored 5 stars for both Value and Extras, it was the slowest by a mile, scoring only 1 star in the Speed test.
The Patriot Torqx was the fastest of these drives, and scored 5 stars in the Speed test, and so did the Crucial M225, OCZ Agility, and Transcend Ultra.
Overall Ratings:
4 Stars - Crucial M225
3.5 Stars - Kingston Now V Series, Patriot Torqx
3 Stars - Imation M-Class
2.5 Stars - Intel X25-M Mainstream, OCZ Agility, Transcend, and Transcend Ultra
As far as "Speed" goes the OWC Mercury Extreme would have blown all the above away!
"Extras" really shouldn't have been a consideration in the review as far as I am concerned. None of them would have been of any use to me!
"Value" is something which can only be determined by the individual purchaser's requirements and judgement. Personally, I would not even consider buying an SSD which scored 5 Stars for Value, but only 1 Star for Speed. I would sooner spend more money per GB to obtain 5 Stars for Speed.
In my opinion the OWC Mercury Extreme is fantastic value for money, particularly when you take into account its read and write speeds, and let's face it, the reason most of us buy SSDs is for increased performance!

Can I install two regular (non SSD) drives on an iMac?

I noticed that you can configure an iMac to come with one regular hard drive and one SSD drive. I was wondering if you could install two regular drives instead? I would like to use one hard drive as a back up drive but in order for that to work they both would need to be about the same capacity.

There simply isn't enough room for two regular sized (3.5 inches) harddisks.
The SSD has a size of 2.5 inches and for that there seems to be enough room for that size.
iFixit has done a teardown of the 27" iMac http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-27-Inch-Teardown/1236/1
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my 5 month old GT80 had a SSD drive failure and it will no longer boot, the BIOS only sees 1 of the 2 SSD drives.
was wondering if it would be possible to rebuild a new SSD array using RAID 1, so that if one drive fails again .. the other drive will still function.

Quote from: xamax_in_dc on 22-May-15, 02:34:17
... that is great news. what would be the choices in the bios I would need to choose to setup the new drives that way? I have been advised that I would also need to disable secure boot to reinstall the OS. ...
Hi Michael,
I can share the main steps but not the details because we're using Windows 7 and therefore the old-style "legacy" version of the BIOS. This also means we're using the "legacy" version of the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) Option ROM. If I'm not mistaken, the Intel IRST is probably integrated into the UEFI version of the system BIOS that you're using with Windows 8.1.
Both the legacy and UEFI versions affect the same settings in the Titan's CMOS. But the legacy versions, unfortunately, have less features. You'll definitely want to stay with Win 8.1 and the UEFI BIOS if you want to overclock or use some of the newer features that were never ported to the legacy interface.
So here are the steps, in principle:
1 - From the Titan system BIOS, set the "SATA Mode Selection" to "RAID". The system BIOS is invoked by pressing and holding the Delete key (below the Insert key) during bootup.
2 - From the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) Option ROM, use the "Create a RAID Volume" menu command to create a Recovery Volume. If you're given a choice to set the frequency that the Recovery Volume will be updated, set it to "Continuous" so it will behave like a RAID-1 mirror.
Note: A RAID Volume may still be configured in your IRST settings since you originally had a striped RAID-0 array. You may need to delete this volume first before you can create the new one for the Recovery Volume.
With the "legacy" version of the IRST and BIOS, the Titan boot sequence goes like this: First the IRST screen appears to notify you if all drivers are enabled and working properly. While this screen is displayed, we have to quickly press Ctrl + I to launch the IRST Option ROM so we can create the RAID volume and configure the Recovery Volume. I believe the UEFI system is different and you may access the IRST from inside it (the same place where the system BIOS settings are controlled).
For help, my advice is that you contact the MSI distributor where you purchased your Titan. If they're good, they may know how to do this and may even do it for you. Depending on your location in the world, you may be contacting them anyway to get your bad SSD replaced. Since you've had your Titan for only 5 months, it should still be under warranty.
Here's a Tip: When you partition your SSDs, only partition 90% of their capacity. Leave 10% unpartitioned. Why? Because SSDs use "wear leveling" to prevent premature failure due to over-use of some sectors. Leaving part of the SSD unused, allows the wear leveling system to use it as needed to replace sectors that begin to go bad. It also helps keep your SSD running with top performance. Without it, your SSDs will gradually slow over their life.
We've built lots of computers and configured many RAID arrays. But we're late to the SSD scene and wanted to get off on the right foot. So we purchased our GT80 Titan-001 in the U.S. from Xotic PC. They configured the RAID arrays for us. That way the system could be tested as intended before delivery. They did an excellent job and we highly recommend them.
Buying a Replacement M.2 SSD
This is new to most of us and if you're not careful, you can purchase the wrong thing. Our Titans are designed to use an M.2 SATA-3 SSD with a 2280 size (22 mm wide x 80 mm long). It's edge connector must be keyed with both a "B" key and an "M" key. These "keys" are simply slots in the edge connector which identify the type of device to the Titan. Both the 2280 size and the keys are very important because M.2 SATA-3 SSDs also come in other sizes and some have only one of the two keys required by the Titan.
If you have to purchase your own M.2 SSD, the first thing to do is to remove your defective one so you'll see what it looks like. All four M.2 slots are located under the Titan's top cover. You remove two screws on the bottom of the Titan case to release the top cover. Then slide the top cover to the right (as you face the front of the Titan) and lift it away. It will slide very easily if you've removed the correct two screws (they're identified with a small HD/RAM symbol---one is in the rear left corner as you face the upside-down Titan's bottom cover and the other is located next to the subwoofer grille).
There is much confusion about the M.2 standard (we only recently figured it out, ourselves). You'll see the MSI literature refer to them as mSATA slots which is incorrect. The mSATA standard came first and is still in use. The M.2 is a new standard that improves on mSATA---but it is not mSATA. Both mSATA and M.2 can accommodate a variety of interfaces from PCIe to SATA. All four of the M.2 slots in the Titan are SATA-3 which means they are also backward compatible with SATA-1 and SATA-2. But you probably won't see any M.2 SSDs that use these older, slower SATA standards because M.2 is so new.
What makes both mSATA and M.2 different from the SSDs made to replace conventional 2.5" HDs in standard SATA bays of notebooks is that the mSATA and M.2 have no case---their circuitry and memory chips are exposed. The goal is to make SSDs and other devices that use mSATA and M.2 smaller and easier to cool than the old 2.5" form factor. That way they fit in ever smaller and thinner devices. M.2, as the newest standard, offers the greatest variety in size (both smaller and larger) and better utilization of its size and layout. When MSI chose M.2, they chose the newest, most advanced of these standards.
But we've discovered one (to us) serious drawback for M.2 SSDs: The largest M.2 SSD that you can presently get for the 2280 size is 512 GB. We desperately wanted a 1 TB capacity (which is available for mSATA) but it simply isn't available for a 2280 M.2---yet. If you're using a striped RAID-0 array, this is not a problem---you can combine four 512 GB M.2 SSDs into an MSI Super RAID 3 configuration in the Titan and have a 2 TB drive! But striped RAID is way too risky for our application so we're sticking with mirrored RAID-1 because it provides the protection and quick recovery that we need. Our consolation is that, with four M.2 slots, we can have two mirrored RAID-1 arrays and we'll eventually replace the second one with two 512 GB SSDs to get our 1 TB total capacity (a 512 GB RAID-1 in "Recovery" mode for drive "C" and a 512 GB standard RAID-1 for drive "D").
But that's not all: Not many folks know this---but you can also get a RAID case for a 2.5" SATA bay. It has the same size as a 2.5" hard drive case and it holds two mSATA SSDs. Since you can get mSATA SSDs in 1 TB capacities, you could create a 1 TB mirrored RAID-1 array for the 2.5" bay that is also solid state. So, if your application requires the protection of mirrored RAID and you need all possible capacity, you could achieve a total mirrored storage of 2 TB using three arrays in the Titan.
Kind regards, David

Satellite U940 - SSD drive shows only 11.22GB

Hi,
I got a brand new Satellite U940-B484 Ultrabook.
The first thing I did was finishing the wizard, then I created the recovery media (using external DVD drive) on three 4.7GB DVD discs
We have Windows 8 Pro license, so my friend formatted the system and installed new Windows 8 Pro, he seems to be missed up with the drivers, so we decided to back to factory status to find and download the correct device drivers.
Even after we got the recovery completed we still have two issues:
Major issue: SSD drive shows only 11.22GB capacity!!
Minor issue: a device in the device manager isn't working correctly!!
Is there any logical explanation for the SSD size to go down from 32 GB to 11 GB????
The only think came across my mind was the possibility to have 2x16GB and the RAID (for some reason) changed from RAID 0 to RAID 1. But even if that is true, where on earth can I change that from?

> Major issue: SSD drive shows only 11.22GB capacity!!
On my clean preinstalled Satellite U940 SSD is listed as unallocated drive with 11.19GB capacity. As far as I know this small SSD is not there for data saving but as small drive that helps and allows fast start-up.
Fast start-up is a setting that helps your PC start up faster after shutdown. Windows does this by saving system info to a file upon shutdown. When you start your PC again, Windows uses that system info to resume your PC instead of restarting it.
> Minor issue: a device in the device manager isn't working correctly!!
Which device? USB host controller maybe?

Anyone useing an SSD Drive in a Mac Pro? Should it be Sata? or pci..can it be bootable?

The Title says it all!
But to recap, I would like an SSD boot drive for my 3,1 power Mac.....I can get SSD drives in PCE or SATA configuration, which would work better?
Thanks for any info
Jim

EIDE or PATA hasn't been used and of course is way too slow.
SSDs today are "too fast" for the SATA II we have so you don't need SATA 3, SATA II is still hitting the wall with an SSD.
You do know that yours should get 250MB/sec but being small you need to cut down on what you store on your boot drive and use other drives for meda and data.
SATA 3 SSDs can deliver up to 500MB/sec which again is getting close to the max bandwidth of 700MB/sec that the controller chip used in the Mac Pro is capable of, which is shared by all 4 drive bays.
Many users stick the SSD in the lower optical drive bay. Very convenient. I can't remember if you have an SATA optical drive though or they still used EIDE.

Hi, I bought the macbook pro 15 3 months ago. I wanna upgrade the hard drive to 128G ssd drive. How much I should paid?

Hi, I bought the macbook pro 15 3 months ago. I wanna upgrade the hard drive to 128G ssd drive. How much I should paid?

Qingfeng wrote:
Hi, I bought the macbook pro 15 3 months ago. I wanna upgrade the hard drive to 128G ssd drive. How much I should paid?
Well you won't have very much storage capacity with a SSD that small, also SSD has limited writes, so it wouldn't be good for on-loading and off-loading a lot of files.
SSD isn't being securely erased due to steps to prevent their premature wear, so despite what you do in Disk Utility Secure Erase, your confidential data can still be recovered if you pass the machine on to someone else for instance.
Other than those reasons, small SSD's can be extremely fast, loading your programs and OS much faster. But the real benefit in high speed storage is transfering large amounts of files on/off the computer to ANOTHER fast device. This comes in handy for video and large music collections and so forth.
Since the SSD because of it's limited writes doesn't fit the bill as a large file transfer medium.
If you want to get a SSD drive, you can upgrade it yourself simply by ordering one online at locations like Other World Computing or NewEgg and have a 00 micro phillips head screwdriver handy.
There are instructions over at iFixit for opening your MacBook and replacing the hard drive with the SSD.
Preferably you will want to clone your present boot drive to a external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, then making the switch and hold option to boot from the clone and then clone from the external to the new internal SSD drive.
Prices of SSD are varied, Apple won't replace it for you
This is currently the fastest SSD availalbe
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If I can only afford to buy one ssd drive, should I use it as startup disc or as scratch disc for photoshop? I work on 10gb files, have maxed out 32gb of ram, and I'm still using scratch at times.

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Hi Experts
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any inputs will be appreciated.
thanks in advance.

-Ash- wrote:
Hi Experts
I got a dv8t-1200 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC
I already maxed out on 2 500Gig seagate HDDs totalling 1Tb
so planning to install ~500Gb SSD drive by removing installed DVD drive ...is it feasible? which brand etc...
any inputs will be appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Not advised it will not work or fit correctly you need to have a adapter to make that fit and as the other poster said your speed will be slower. Also you can get laptop drives each that are 2tb in both bay without needing to take out the OD drive itself. Did you look into that before getting a SSD.
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It is possible to replace the HDD with an SSD?
Would it improve overall speed as well?
Regards

I don't think you can use SSD's in PowerBooks because they use the SATA interface, while the PowerBooks have the ATA/IDE interface.
So, no go there. Now I know there are adapters for using SATA drives with ATA/IDE interfaces, but that wouldn't work in our PowerBooks since the space, well, additional space for the adapter to the connector would make it impossible to fit.
Message was edited by: Pismo 900
I take it back! I just read this on a third party forum and there are IDE SSD drives. The thing right now is the limited capacity of the drives, and the high price for such. If you waited for prices to go down and capacity to go up (which it is slowly doing... too bad gas prices aren't doing the same), then it'd be feasible.
Search for this model:
1) Transcend TS32GSSD25-M 2.5" 32GB IDE
described as "cheap but not fast" on that forum
2) SUPER TALENT FHD32GC25M 2.5" 32GB IDE
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Re: What are properties of SSD drive used in Tecra R10

Hello,
Does anyone know what are the characteristics of the ssd drive ?
128GB but from which contructor? I need all characteristics of the SSD drive for the Tecra R10.
Thanks for your help ;)

Hi
I have only found these details:
The SSD drive which was installed in Tecra R10-10J is an
- 128GB SSD
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- Interface SATA
- Height(mm) 9.5mm
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Thats everything what I can say about this SSD drive

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Hi there... I have a mid-2011 iMac. I have maxed it with RAM and have a have a 7200 rpm HD in it. I use this for shoots using Capture software where the camera is tethered either using FireWire or USB2 connections. After a long day the computer begins to slow down, often crashing, even using the so-called 64-bit enabled software. I have been told that if i had an SSD drive to run my operating system and my spinning drive as a write-drive, this would speed-up and stabilize my workflow significantly. My question is whether or not i can now get Apple to perform an additional installation of an SSD drive?
If any of you have been through the same / similar process, i would love to hear about it...
Thanks!
Simon

I think whoever is offering you advice is mistaken and I would recommend you run Activity Monitor (Applications - Utilities - Activity Monitory), the next time you see a slow down look in Activity Monitor and see if there are any processes that are using a lot of CPU cycles. That will be listed as %CPU.
Also you mentioned you have maxed out the RAM so I'm assuming that means you have 16GB, is that correct? While you are in Activity Monitor click the System Memory tab and look to see how much FREE RAM you have. It will look similar to:
Finally no Apple will not install a SSD into your machine however you may be able to locate an AASP that will. While a SSD will improve
startup times
application launch times
shutdown times
times when you have a lot of IO to storage
for most day to day work you will not see improvement.

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I know others have had this very problem but I could not find a recent thread where there was a solution. I installed a new OWC SSD 120 GB HD (made for legacy Powerbook) to replace the original HD. Used the original Powerbook G4 install CD, but after startup get the blinking Question mark. Used Disk Utility on install CD, new drive still not showing up. I thought the SSD drive was DOA and sent it back to OWC, only to have them send it back and say it was OK.Tried System Profiler on the G4, nothing shows as new drive. Tried Firewire target using a MacPro as host, and the G4 mounts on host screen as Untitled 1, with 119.7 GB capacity. Ran Disk Utility on the drive identified as 120.3 GB AAPL Firewire Target Media, with Untitled 1 volume, and drive checks out OK. Before I screw things up, any wisdom for out there on next step? Seems I need to reverse the host config if I wish to install OS on the G4 via Target, or some such wizardry?

I had problems with OWC legacy SSDs for my PowerBook5,6. I went through similar experiences with them as you. Returned & exchanged. They felt unusually warm/hot and the PowerBook wouldn't recognize them. Maybe a bad batch of drives or a bad adapter. The legacy SSDs are just 2.5 Electra SDDs enclosed with a SATA-IDE adapter. Other people don't report problems with the OWC drives.
I did not try the Master/Slave/Cable-Select jumpers with the OWC SDD. If it does have them, you can try changing it. This link isn't OWC SSD specific but gives you the jumper basics:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1547944
I went the another route with a crucial SDD, enclosure & adapter. My PowerBook recognized it immediately and it's been working fine since.
Boot from your install DVD (hold C on power up). Run Disk Utility. IF DU can see the drive, make sure to set the partition map to APPLE PARTITION MAP (PPC) and not GUID (intel). Format with Mac OS Extended (HFS+) Journaled.

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