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Below is my experience after replacing the 160GB 7200rpm Fujitsu harddrive with the OCZ 64GB SATAII SSD.

The most critical improvement to me: the battery can last more than 8 hours when using the lowest illumination and turning off both the wireless and bluetooth. So now I can taking notes for a whole day's event without any worry about the battery.

In addition, HDTune shows an the average transfer rate increased from 43.9 MB/s to 70.9 MB/s. The minimum trasfer rate of the SSD (58.5MB/s) is higher than the maximum trasfer rate of the Fijitsu HDD (55.6MB/s).



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Sweet!!!!
Its something I want to do for my X61T when the prices come down.
Was the process difficult swapping?

Just consider SSD a normal hard drive and do cloning and such. It should be very straight forward.
I also have a Sandisk 32GB in my X61t. The difference is really day and night.

Excellent, will keep that in mind than.
Thanks!

Oh, SSD price is dropping. If you need one now, you should buy one. I got my Sandisk for only $325 on ebay, not much more expensive than 7K200 when it comes out.

XIII wrote:Oh, SSD price is dropping. If you need one now, you should buy one. I got my Sandisk for only $325 on ebay, not much more expensive than 7K200 when it comes out.

Wow!
I hadn't looked in a while, didn't know they had dropped that much. Thanks for the pricing, I should start looking on eBay soon.

XIII wrote:Oh, SSD price is dropping. If you need one now, you should buy one. I got my Sandisk for only $325 on ebay, not much more expensive than 7K200 when it comes out.

Still pretty expensive though. the 7K200 is only $80-$130 now depending on capacity.

Luckily for me, my 100GB for my X61 from Lenovo is the 7K200 version.

i am still wondering if we can partition SSD? like drive C for OS, drive D for program ect..

ronan_zj wrote:i am still wondering if we can partition SSD? like drive C for OS, drive D for program ect..

yes, you can.   many X300 owners are receiving theirs with a service partition.   mine was one big partition so i didn't have to change the table when installing clean.

fwiw, the samsung MCCOE64G8MPP tops out at 99.4, has a minimum of 58.9, and an average of 77.6 MB/sec.   it's most of the reason why the X300 feels so quick.   results are from hdtune 2.55 under server 2008 EE x86 w/ SP1.

tallshorty wrote:

XIII wrote:Oh, SSD price is dropping. If you need one now, you should buy one. I got my Sandisk for only $325 on ebay, not much more expensive than 7K200 when it comes out.

Still pretty expensive though. the 7K200 is only $80-$130 now depending on capacity.

Luckily for me, my 100GB for my X61 from Lenovo is the 7K200 version.

Actually, I hold out on the purchase of 7K200 when it came out. It is retailed for about $250 back then. So, IMO the SSD I purchased is not much more expensive.
I guess if you wait long enough, you might save further but it is really up to you.

Just adding my experiences, I replaced the hard drive in the X61T with a Sandisk 32GB SSD. The laptop is now silent and then right side of the palmrest area is much cooler. The only downside I've noticed so far is that hibernation takes forever, so I just shut it down completely instead.