T410s 1.8" 80GB SSD

I recently ordered a fully loaded T410s with the 80GB Intel SSD and I'm wondering if it's going to be G1 or G2. I asked the same question over at notebookreview and a person (yankees17) kindly answered that he got the T410s and it arrived with the G1 drive (he ordered on 1/7). When I choose(3/10) the 80GB SSD a message showed me that it may delay shipment by up to 4weeks.
Can someone from Lenovo tell me if you're still putting G1 drives in the T410s or you switched to G2 (and thus the 4week delay?). I'm considering cancelling my order as I find it outrageous to wait an extra weeks to receive an outdated drive.
Thanks,

It's a G1. I would recommend to buy a T410s with the cheapest HDD you can get and then buy a Intel X18-M G2 separately. It's probably going to cost a bit more, but then you get a G2 SSD.
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Going from 256GB to 80GB SSD

Hello,
I'm going from my 256GB to an 80GB SSD, and I'll use an external for my file store. When I restore using time machine, do I have the option to pick and choose what I want to restore?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
That depends on what you want to do. You have 4 options:
Restore your entire system to the exact state it was in at the time of any backup. See #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
Install OSX, then restore your settings, apps, users, and/or data via +Setup Assistant.+ See #19 in the FAQ Tip. Then download and install the "combo" update to get back to 10.5.8. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
Install OSX, set up one user and install the "combo" as above. Then use +Migration Assistant,+ per this Apple article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
Install OSX, set up one user and install the "combo" as above, then restore selected items from Time Machine. See #15 in the FAQ tip.
Without knowing just what you want to do, we can only advise that usually your best bet is to do the full system restore, then delete anything you don't want, rather than trying to pick and choose what you do want, especially with applications.

Moving Windows 7 preload to Intel mSata 80gb SSD

I'm thinking of installing an Intel mSata 310 SSD to the internal slot on my W520. What is the procedure for moving the OS from the HDD to the SSD? Do I have to do a complete reinstall of the OS and Apps on the C; drive or can I just relocate the information to the SSD? Thanks
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How can I order new ones for the system?
Hi harrisb,
You need to contact support for that:- http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-4M7HWZ
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T410s - Model 2924-9FG - SSD problem ?

Hi all,
I have had several BSOD under Windows 7 Ent x64 with errors regarding the SSD drive not being available.
My drive is an INTEL_SSDSA1M160G2LE
All latest drivers are installed and Windows 7 is up-to-date regarding Windows Updates.
What do you think I should do ?
I haven't noticed the error messages but it's always saying that the Hard drive is not available or not found. Next time it happens, I'll write down the exact error message.
EDIT : A reboot solves the problem (and happily, with 8 Gb of RAM and a 160 SSD, it's very quick ). It's as if it was failing to answer for a few moments.
As it's my first SSD, do you have any particular recommendation regarding it's use ?
Thanks
Christophe

I have a 2901-CTO with the exact same problem. Lenovo sent a new 160GB hard drive which I replaced yesterday but the problem remains. Tried setting the BIOS SATA setting to "compatability" but the machine won't even boot up in that mode. Lenovo is now sending a new motherboard but that sounds iffy to me. If this doesn't get resolved soon, this machine is getting sent back and i will replace it with a Dell M4500. This is my 4th Think Pad and all of them before this have run superbly so this is quite a letdown.

Partitioning 500GB-HDD and 80GB-SSD for Arch

Hello guys,
I have a laptop with a 500GB Harddisk and a 80 GB SSD installed, and I would like to get the most efficient partition layout.
Note: Many times I have seen people suggesting putting the swap or the /var/tmp on the SSD, that is definitely something i do not want. SSD Disks have a limited number of write operations before they die, and therefore putting the Swap to the SSD is ridiculous.
I have come up with the following partitions scheme, and i would like to discuss, and refine that with you:
--- To make things easier I called the HDD hddX and the SSD ssdX. ---
/dev/ssd1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/ssd2 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdd1 /var/tmp ext4 noatime 0 0 # on hdd for compilation
/dev/hdd2 /home ext4 noatime 0 0
tempfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,size=1024M,mode=1777 0 0
16 GIG Swap at beginning of HDD!
Is there any refinement you see? Or anything else in /var that must go on the HDD?
Best Wishes,
Daniel
Last edited by alphamaennchen (2011-05-31 05:37:52)

I have been using ssd laptop for quite some time now, and I have to definitely agree with graysky about swap. You probably don't need swap. It's an echo of the past, when PC's really were low on ram... Today, unless you use some specialized memory-hungry software you can do without swap even with 2GBs of ram. Check your system monitor, it's likely that you have a big memory redundancy all the time. And 16GB swap is ridiculous - you would go mad with software working on swap, even 2GB, believe me. And running all that you have in your system probably wouldn't use all your ram. It's funny how people still think that they need swap today. Use it only if you use hibernate.
I would put /boot and / on ssd. I don't see any reason to put /var on ssd - surely ssd is fast, but hdd isn't that slow - I doubt that var would use more than 50MB/s, which every modern HDD should exceed. And depending what you mainly use /home for, it also can be put on ssd.(/home is hmmm... "unpredictable" - for example WINE can mess it up).
And remember to add noatime and discard mount options to ssd partitions. There are few other tweaks for ssd too. For example, if you put /home on ssd, you can move your web browser's cache(I moved it to RAM).
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Results and a Procedure for SSD Upgrade on T410s

After finding that my T410s 1.8" hard drive was 35% - 60% slower than the variety of 2.5" SATA Hard Drives in my older Thinkpads, I selected a Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB for $219 for the SSD upgrade from Amazon because this Kingston model had the best price for published performance.
If anyone else is thinking of this upgrade, here are the results using CrystalDiskMark to measure Read and Write speeds. (The Kingston has much better Write speeds than the Intel SSD used in some T410s models.)
System: T410s with 1.8" Toshiba 250G drive > upgraded to Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB
                                                    HDD             SSD               Improvement
Sequential Read 1000MB           47 MB/s        190 MB/s       304%
Sequential Write 1000MB           46                 150                 226%
Random Read       512KB           21                 174                 728%
Random Write       512KB           22                 149                 577%
Random Read           4KB          0.30               14.0              4566%
Random Write           4KB          0.68               16.0              2253%
Upgrade Procedure
To complete the upgrade, I restored a Windows 7 Disk Image from the HDD to the SSD. Partition Alignment and TRIM were both correct after the transfer to the SSD. The Windows 7 image was on a USB drive where I maintain a Fresh Install image that has my full setup.
Notes: To restore a Windows 7 image from a larger drive to a smaller drive, you must create the disk image after shrinking drive C:\ to a size that permits it to fit on the new smaller drive . . so your larger source drive MUST HAVE unallocated space before creating the Windows 7 Disk Image. When shrinking drive C:\ on your source drive, shrink it enough so it will easily fit with room to spare on new smaller drive, otherwise Windows 7 image restore will not work.   You can expand drive C:\ to fill the entire new SSD drive after restoring the image to the SSD. (more notes about the source drive below)
- The Disk Imaging mentioned in this post is built into Windows 7 - Acronis is great but not needed for this SSD upgrade.
- Shrinking and Expanding drive C:\ is done in Windows 7 Disk Management
- Your larger source drive must be configured to have Unallocated Space before creating the disk image.  Its the total size of all partitions on your source drive that matters, even if you don't select extra partions to be in the image. Creating Unallocated Space on the source drive is the only thing that works for using Disk Imaging to move from a larger drive to a smaller drive.
Important:   Check out post installation Tweaks when using an SSD at this link.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide
especially disable Hybernation and scheduled Defragmentation. Scheduled Defragementation may be set by default on all Windows 7 installations.
Other Results
Windows 7 boots to the login screen in 16 seconds now compared to 28 seconds before.
The T410s with the Toshiba HDD was a real drag compared to my older T500 and T61 with stock 5400rmp Hard Drives.
The T410s with the Kingston SSD is now my quickest system.
The measured results I get from the Kingston are a little slower than the results published in an independent review of this drive using the same free CrystalDiskMark utility. I know my Partition Alignment is good, so maybe the different results are caused by some difference in the computers.  To make sure the disk image transfer wasn't causing a performance hit, I also performed a from-scratch install of Windows 7 directly on the SSD. The performance tests results were the same with either method getting Win7 on the SSD.
The 1.8" Toshiba Hard Drive that came with the T410s was painfully slow, I am a little surprised Lenovo would put this drive in one of their business class systems.
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Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful in my decision to move from the Toshiba 250G drive to the 256G Kingston. The performance of the drive is awesome. I thought I would share a few items on how I went through the upgrade.
I used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery and performed a full BASE backup. It took about 12-14 hours to backup around 220 GB.
I then replaced the old drive with the new drive.
After replacing, I used the two recovery DVDs to restore to factory settings.
After back to factory, I went through all the basic setup so I could use the OS.
I then downloaded the critical update for Recuse and Recovery.
After that I ran rescue and recovery with the option to replace everything.
The restore of the data took 3-6 hours (didn't sit around to watch the whole thing).
Everything was restored perfectly. No issues at all.
I had read that you could boot off of the external backup on USB, but I couldn't validate that myself. Lenovo tech support also said it couldn't be done. I had reviewed my plan with Lenovo support a few times to be sure I was doing things right. The knowledge level on R&R is pretty inconsistent.
Also, a note that my original drive was encrypted with PGP Whole Disk Encryption. When R&R backs up the data it's no longer encrypted and I didn't have a password on the backup. I turned off disk defrag after the restore. I confirmed Windows 7 was set to use TRIM.
I highly recommend the drive. The 256GB wasn't cheap, but I needed that amount of space. The performance like I said, is excellent.
Good post, swbca. Thanks!

Intel 80gb SATA SSD (problem)

I got the new 80gb SSD from Intel. I unplugged my IDE hard drives and plugged the SSD into SATA port 1 on the PM8M-V mother board. Installed Windows 7. Everything seems to work great.
The BIOS doesn't have any mention of SATA nor is SATA listed as a valid boot choice.
If I plug my original IDE hard drives back in, the computer boots right up to XP as I would expect. After updating the VIA drivers, I can now see the SSD in Windows XP.
If I just unplug my XP boot HDD, the machine doesn't get past the Boot from CD prompt and hangs. I was hoping it would find the OS on the SSD and boot Windows 7.
So, I can either boot the SSD with Windows 7 without my hard drives or boot the hard drives with Windows XP but I can't figure out how to boot from SSD (SATA) when my IDE drives are also attached. IDE drives are for storage (my OS will be on the SSD).
Booting Windows 7 from SSD is a dream though so I hope I can get this working.
Any Ideas??? Please???

It is confirmed that this board only runs on VIA controller for SATA and RAID.
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=205
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On-Board IDE
• An IDE controller on the VT8237R chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to four IDE devices.
• Serial ATA/150 controller integrated in VT8237R.
- Up to 1.5Gb/s transfer rate.
- Can connect up to 2 Serial ATA drives.
- Supports RAID 0, 1 and RAID 0+1

Satellite R630-155 - Fan is too noisy and SSD upgrade

I am the owner of a Toshiba Satellite R630-155 (Core i5-480). My problems are:
1. The fan is too noisy and never stops. In normal operation (browsing and general office work) there is a constant high pitch noise that is audible three to four meters away in an office environment - in high load you just can't stand it!!! The fan never stops... even when you are doing nothing...
2. Heat is a big problem. The bottom of the laptop is constantly overheating and i have to place it on my desk in a way that the bottom left corner is outside of the table so it can breath fresh air from below - if not, the temperature rises and the (loud) fan is unable to keep up. When i work with the laptop while sitting on a sofa, i have to place a thick book between the laptop and my legs. The book must be thick (more than an inch) with hard covers, otherwise the heat passes through the book!!!!
3. Last (but not least, i just mention the biggest problems here) it's the problem with SSD installation. I bought a used Corsair F80 (80Gb SSD) from a friend, but i was unable to use it with the Toshiba - the BIOS was not detecting the disk. I tried installing all latest firmware updates for both laptop and SSD but i had no success. Then i gave the disk back and i bought a brand new Zalman 128Gb SSD (SSD0128N1 Sandforce) but i had exactly the same problem. I contacted my local Toshiba support and after a lot of conversation the only answer i got is that the laptop is not compatible with those SSD's and this is acceptable by Toshiba and not their problem. They told me that if i need an SSD upgrade i can only go for the Toshiba SSD that is installed on the portege series, which is sold by Toshiba for a ridiculously expensive price - about $500 for 128Gb. I contacted the European support center and i got the exact same reply. I searched on the Internet and i found someone else with the exact same problem with a Corsair 128Gb SSD - he found that the laptop detects the SSD after ten to twenty reboots. I tried that and it was true - after a lot of reboots the laptop detected the Zalman disk and i was able to install Windows 7 successfully, but the process is unacceptable. Also the disk is benchmarked by official sites at the speed of an OCZ Vertex 2 128Gb (and slightly better), but when i ran a benchmark in the Toshiba, the results I got were below half of the advertised speed. Same benchmark in another machine for the same disk, resulted in the advertised speeds.
Shame for Toshiba... nice design and portability but everything else is a big flaw. Their support in non existent and they do not value their customers. I feel they stole my money and I'll never buy a Toshiba laptop again.
Sorry for the big message, but I need I have to warn potential customers. Can someone help me with any of the above problems? Do you have the same problems too?
To be continued...

Hi buddy,
Regarding the fan and heat issue: Did you make BIOS update? Friend of me has Satellite R630 too and he told me that fan activity with new BIOS version 2.10 is reduced. Furthermore the notebook is cooler than before so I would recommend installing this update. You can download the BIOS update here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Download Drivers
But before you start the BIOS update you should consider the following tips:
-Run update as Administrator only
-Unzip all files from zip archive before you start the update file
-Close all running programs and also the antivirus and firewall
-Make sure that battery is fully charged
Regarding the SSDs its always a little bit complicated installing 3rd party products and nobody can guarantee that such parts would work. You are always on safely side with original Toshiba spare parts.
Everything what you can do is installing the newest firmware for SSD and hope that it works but who knows maybe the BIOS update will also help you in this case ;)

E440 16GB SSD u 110 sandiisk drive, what does it do?

Hi,
I just bought e440 with 500GB 7200rpm drive and additional 16GB SSD.
What does this drive do?
Is it for cache, for system or what?
Can I mount it as a standard drive?
I ahve installed Samsung EVO 840, 256GB drive. If the small ssd is for cache, I do not see a reason this should be usefull anymore.
Please let me know what does it do and what can I do with it. From disck management I cannot format it or allocate sapade for other use than it is right now, and I do not know what is it for..
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y460, i7 640m, 8GB 1066 CL-7, 80GB SSD Intel 310 pci-e + 500GB HDD WD, ATI 5650m + eGPU GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5
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Got the solution. Just disable Intel speed-step technology, and it makes laptop 2x more responsive.
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y460, i7 640m, 8GB 1066 CL-7, 80GB SSD Intel 310 pci-e + 500GB HDD WD, ATI 5650m + eGPU GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5

DVD Rom, RAM, and SSD question(s)

I purchased a nice T400 (6475-B14) on Ebay and I have upgraded a number of items on it to get it to where I want it.
I upgraded the OS to W7 Pro, put in a Lenovo 4GB RAM stick (now I have a 4GB and a 2GB), and I swapped out the HDD for an Intel X-25 G2 80GB SSD.
90% of the time the machine is great, however I have run into a few problems and I'm really hoping that someone here can help me.
The first issue, is the fact that every once in a while the machine can't start. I end up having to restore the machine using R&R. I don't know what could be the issue. I've replaced the OS and HDD so I'm not sure what to do next. I am by no means a computer expert, but could the mis-matched RAM (1X4GB with 1X2GB) be causing the problem? I don't mind getting another 4GB stick, but if it won't do anything to fix the issue I don't want to waste the money.
Number two, I'm trying to burn an image recovery disk, but according to the Nero Tool I can't write with my drive (HL-DT-St DVD-ROM DU10N). Do I need additional software? I find it hard to believe that Lenovo would include a drive that only reads and is not capable of writing on DVD or CD, but based on the searches I've done on this forum and others, I can't find any other answer.
Lastly, the SSD seems to be working great (I've only had to restore the system once since installing it, see issue number one), but I see in the Lenovo download site there is an ISO file for SSD's. However since I can't burn a DVD, I can't burn the ISO file. So my question(s) is/are do I really need the software? Can I use my Apple Mac Pro at home to burn the ISO file and then use that disk to install the software?
Sorry for the long, rambling questions, but I have tried to search a number of forums and the internet in general and I haven't been able find the answers.
Thanks!
GBA

hello mate,
For your first issue the RAM can be the problem. U can mix different size of RAM but make sure to use DDR3 PC3-8500 or DDR3 PC3-10600 memory. And also the T400 does not support ECC be careful to don't mix ECC and non ECC memory.
For your second question your HL-DT-St DVD-ROM DU10N is just a DVD ROM reader and it's not capable to write any CD or DVD.
I don't know about the software for your SSD but if it's an ISO file for windows you can burn it with a mac it won't make a difference. All discs burned on the Mac work across platforms.
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Best way to set up ssd/hdd

Hi guys,
I just upgraded my MacBook pro with an intel 80gb ssd along with a 500gb caviar blue hdd. I have found many conflicting answers to this question and was wondering if anyone found the best solution. I intend to use the SSD as the boot drive with applications. I have already used CCC to clone everything but the users folder, and it seems to be working fine, but I have seen in other places that it may bog down SSD performance by just cloning the drive, and a clean install would be best, but I had a hard time figuring out how to best transfer the applications should I go down that route. So essentially my question is, what would be the best way to divide up my data and how would you go about doing it? Thanks in advance for any help.

If your original drive and the files on it are in good shape, no errors, and you use good cloning software there should not be any problem cloning the old spinning drive to the new SSD.
What I think may be happening in other cases is they never enabled TRIM support and without it the SSD can nget fragmented (fragmented may not be the correct term) which will lower the performance of the drive.
TRIM is only enabled by default when you install a SSD sold by Apple. There are hacks to enable it on any SSD drive. Just do a search for it on google.

Best use of 2 SSDs?

Hi all, I impulse bought a new SSD. As you do every day. And now I’m just wondering of the best way to utilise it. I’ve already got Arch on another SSD so it’s not exactly slow already
Apart from the obvious, moving swap and /home to this new drive, what else do you think would benefit from being moved?
I mainly use Arch for browsing, IRC and programming, so I could obviously have a /scratch partition for GCC and the like, but it seems a bit of a waste of 80Gb haha
Relevant system specs:
Quad Core i7
4Gb RAM
2 x 80Gb SSDs
3Tb worth of mechanical drives for photos, music etc
Edit: oh and Arch with OpenBox!
Any ideas welcome.
Spec
Last edited by Spec-Chum (2013-07-18 13:46:18)

I don't quite understand why having a RAID array would prevent you from doing a dual bot setup. I mean, if you are dual booting all Linux, then you could very easily just mdadm the two together and then treat it as one big-ass drive. You could use it is a big-ass drive as well. So that means you could put an LVM on top of it and separate it out between your distro choices. Or you could simply use regular partitions on top of the mdadm array. Of course this assumes that the disks are of similar size. But if they are not, you could also just mdadm two same sized partitions together. In fact, you could use half of each SSD, mdadm them together, then still use the other halves to do with as you please.
I am also not sure what the "temp" is really for. I mean, unless you are concerned about partition size limiting the ability to compile, then it shouldn't really matter where you put it. For example, if you wanted to have a small rootfs where you decided to compile gnome, that might not work. But then you shouldn't be compiling as root anyway, so wherever you do that you should have permissions to run as your user. Typically that is in your /home folder.
I have a Samsung 840 250GB, as Samsung 830 128GB, and a Mushkin Atlas 128GB mSATA in my Thinkpad. I have the two Samsungs in a single btrfs pool. The 840 also hold my ESP (/boot), so it's contribution to the btrfs pool is ~231GB while the 830 spans the whole disk (with btrfs you don't have to use a partition, and though it says it is using the whole disk, it actually leaves a small section in the start of the disk free so you can still have a bios bootloader). So my data is in "single" mode, meaning that is it just, well... single. But I have the metadata and system data in raid1. I wanted to do raid0 or raid1, but the size difference would be too much for btrfs to compensate for. I guess I could add the Mushkin, but the mSATA port is only SATAII, so teh speed difference is too great.
Anyway, I would recommend btrfs. It is really cool and feature packed. Also by using subvolumes, you don't have to really partition your drive all up into chunks. Subvolumes will also allow you to have multiple distributions in the same btrfs pool, since it allows to to arbitrarily decide what subvol will act as the root. But if you use multiple distributions in the same pool, you have to make sure you are using very similar kernel and btrfs-progs versions. But if you are using btrfs, you should be using at least the latest stable kernel anyway, and btrfs-progs' git version is easily built.

Two ssd 64gb raid 0 and two sata 320 w d hd raid 0

Hello
I am having issues getting the WD 320Gig hard drive's to run in raid 0
System see the SSD in raid 0 .......but not the WD's in windows 7..... during boot up it see the WD's in the boot up and in the raid screen
Thermal Take Dokker Case
AMD x4 970 Black clocked to 3.9GHz with OC genie lite .... just enabled it in the bio's and let it do it on it's own.
Corsair H50 water cooled
MSI 890FXA-GD70 mother board
1.80 bio's updated already
Diamond HD6850 GDDR5 1024MB Vid card
Two 4 Gig Kit's Crucial DDR3 Ballistix 1280 CL8 1.65VW/XMP
Two Micro Center Re-Badged ADATA S599 2.5 SATA SSD 64GB Hard drives running RAID 0
flashing utility has been done to the drive’s already
http://www.adata.com.tw/upload/downloadfile/ADATA%20S599%20Firmware%20Upgrade%20Tool%20V1.0.rar
Two WD 320 Gig Hard Drives Sata2 16meg's cache
Sony lightscribe DVD.
ViewSonic 27inch HDMI 1080p 100,000 to 1 contrast and 1 ms
Thank's for any help with this system... boots up to log on screen in 30 sec's and then after entering pass word it is on desk top in 10 sec's

I am not having any luck at all with this.... when I do get it to see the SSD's and I load the RAID driver at win7 driver install screen it all loads up fine and when it get's ready to go into win7 after rebooting I get a blue screen and reboot's..... blue screen flashes by so fast i can not read it...... also i took back the the Micro Center Re-Badged ADATA S599 2.5 SATA SSD HDD's 64GB and exchanged them for two OCZ Vertex 80GB SSD and swapped out the two WD 320GB for one WD Caviar Black 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 64meg's.... I am looking to RAID 0 the two SSD's and I just can not get it using the RAID hardware on the MB .... I have been able to do it in windows manager but it will not let me load OS on to them... I do have Win7 loaded onto the WD 1TB SATA HDD at this point hoping I could get the two SSD's in RAID 0 and did.... but only as dynamic and it will not let me load OS on to them... I had hoped to do and then delete the OS on the WD 1TB SATA hard drive
Thank you in Adv. for any assistance

Seritek 2EN2 + Intel SSD's + eSATA Extender?

I am going to be setting up a new boot volume for my Mac Pro most likely consisting of 2 x 80GB Intel X25-M SSD's in a RAID 0 stripe. I am still exploring options on how to configure this along with my other data volumes and am wondering if anyone has any experience with any of the following configurations.
1. *Seritek 2EN2 Enclosure* [http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA2EN2> + *Newer Tech eSATA Extender* [http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MPQXES2>
My first question with this setup is will the Seritek 2EN2 enclosure accept the 2.5" SSD drives? I know from these forums that the VelociRaptors are not supported. I'm curious if using the Intel-provided 3.5" bay adapters with the Seritek trays will work properly. If Firmtek can confirm or deny this that would be very helpful.
Secondly, I don't believe the Seritek 2EN2 is a port multiplier, so there shouldn't be any foreseeable performance hit using this with the 2 SSD's as they will each be on their own channel. Is this correct?
Lastly, I prefer to boot from this and I'm curious if anyone regularly boots from the 2 extra ODD SATA ports on the logic board. Any downsides or problems?
What's nice about this setup is it frees up the 4 internal bays for a fast RAID 0 data volume.
Note: I also have a Sonnet Tempo E4P card installed with a SeriTek 5PM connected and this setup has been flawless. Firmtek is a bit pricey but high-quality in my experience.
2. *MaxConnect 2.5" Drive Sled for Mac Pro* [http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product _id=180] [http://bilsta57.com/?p=1266]
This looks like a nice solution and definitely has the easiest install process, simply replacing the existing drive sleds in the Mac Pro. The downside is, using 2 SSD's in a RAID 0 stripe will eat up 2 of the internal bays. I am considering this option especially if I end only using 1 of the SSD's as the boot drive in my Mac Pro and possibly using the other SSD in my MBP instead.
3. *MaxConnect Optical Bay Kit* [http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.display&product _id=188]
As far as I can tell, this 2.5" kit will mount 2 or 4 SSD's in the lower optical bay position. I would have to give up my second optical drive with this solution. I'm assuming that the 2 SSD's would still connect to the 2 ODD ports on the logic board. It seems like routing the SATA cables from the logic board up to the optical bay could be a PITA. Also, event though I'd be running SSD drives, I wonder about cooling and ventilation as I don't think there are any fans up there.
Anybody using any of these solutions in their MP? Any advice or comments?
Finally, can anyone comment on using a single Intel X25-M 80GB SSD as their boot drive vs. striping two together in RAID 0? I'm still a bit on the fence on this point. A single SSD is going to smoke my current solution and I'm wondering if 2 in RAID 0 is overkill or really noticeably better in real-world experience.
Cheers!

seems like routing the SATA cables from the logic board up to the optical bay could be a PITA. Also, event though I'd be running SSD drives, I wonder about cooling and ventilation as I don't think there are any fans up there.
A fan sits behind the optical bay. Getting to the ODD ports is easier than you imagine:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/tips/MacProHD_in_optical_drive_bay/MacPro_HD_inOpticalBay.html
This is more specific to CalDigit installation, but covers your basic idea:
http://www.caldigit.com/RAIDCardDemo6.asp

Issue with recognized space available on SSD

T410 with a 128 SSD.
Right clicking on the C drive and going to properties says I have 600MB left. Going into the C drive selecting all and going to properties says I have about 25GB left.
Why the difference and is there something I should be clearing so that 25GB may be used?

go into the rescue and recovery software, then check how much backup storage your laptop is using for Rescue files.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

T410s 1.8" 80GB SSD

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