T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

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T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#1 Post by Headrush » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:17 am

First post here so may I say 'Hello to you all'

I've had my T61 for a while now and have played about with a few upgrades, T9300 CPU, 4gb RAM, Middleton BIOS, 42T0867 NetCard, 60gb SSD, 600gb UltraBay and RightMark undervolting, did I miss anything? :)

Now I've turned my attention to that empty PCIe mini slot where a WAN card could reside. I understand from other posters that the Intel Turbo jobby is a waste of time but I'm wondering if a PCIe mini SSD card could go there and work as an extra drive for swap/temp file etc. I've seen this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-8-GB-Int ... 1c4e2679ec and wondered if this would work. Thank you for any input on this matter.

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Re: T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#2 Post by axur-delmeria » Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:49 am

That's a PATA/IDE SSD used in their older netbooks (Mini 9 and 10). It won't work, as it's not a real mini PCIe card.
It's just a card that uses the same slot connector as mini PCIe, but has IDE signals instead of PCIe.
It's similar to the ones used by ASUS in the EEE PC 701/901 netbooks.
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Re: T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#3 Post by Headrush » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:19 pm

ok thanks for that axur.

After a bit more digging, I've come to realise that it can't be done anyway, even if it was the right kind of device. It was just a thought :)

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Re: T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#4 Post by jronald » Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:53 pm

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Re: T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#5 Post by Headrush » Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:41 pm

Nice one Ron, that's opened up a whole new can of worms, I shall start investigating at once, thanks a bunch mate :thumbs-UP:

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Re: T61 14" Intel Turbo memory mini card slot

#6 Post by Qing Dao » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:24 am

If you use a wireless mouse, you can attach the dongle internally with that same USB card.

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