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I purchased (October 2009) a StarTech ECESATA1 (ExpressCard to eSATA) and I have been very pleased with it. I ESPECIALLY like that it is flush mounted as my laptop goes in & out of my briefcase a couple of times a day. It works fine when the laptop is in or out of the dock. It is available at Buy.com for $27.

Per the specs at: http://us.startech.com/product/ECESATA1 ... apter-Card it uses the SIL3132 chipset.

mdclow wrote:I purchased (October 2009) a StarTech ECESATA1 (ExpressCard to eSATA) and I have been very pleased with it. I ESPECIALLY like that it is flush mounted as my laptop goes in & out of my briefcase a couple of times a day. It works fine when the laptop is in or out of the dock. It is available at Buy.com for $27.

Per the specs at: http://us.startech.com/product/ECESATA1 ... apter-Card it uses the SIL3132 chipset.

Have you tried to benchmark the datatransfer rate using the expresscard and an SSD? Does the 2.5 Gbits bandwidth of the slot limit it?

I only have one SSD, which is my C Drive, so I am not sure how this would be done?
If you give me a bit of guidance I am willing to give it a try. I am far from a Super Geek (which I would consider a compliment), more like someone who is on the trailing edge of the bleeding edge of technology.

Here are the results for my new W510 (i7 720QM)

Hello, the following will be for T60 (SATA-I), Intel X25M-160 G2

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 136.533 MB/s
Sequential Write : 91.667 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 125.795 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 92.686 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 16.433 MB/s [ 4012.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 25.788 MB/s [ 6295.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 90.695 MB/s [ 22142.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 79.763 MB/s [ 19473.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 17.9% (26.6/148.9 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/11/20 13:09:49
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)

Mine:

Thinkpad T60p with Mushkin 90GB (Sandforce 1200 controller).


Update:
I tried again, this time on AC-power instead of battery with a slight improvement of performance.


And for comparison here is a Kingspec 64GB PATA SSD installed in my Thinkpad X40. I've had it for a bit over an year and with it the X40 has often felt quite a bit speedier than my T60p when the latter only had a HDD.
The downside was that the Kingspec totally failed on me last August but it was promptly replaced by the seller, memoryc.com.

Installed as per my forum instructions: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 39#p721339

Seems quicker... Not amazingly fast, but I'm just web surfing mostly....

A 2007-55U T60(SATA-I) with Intel X25M 80G: