Thinkpads Forum

I have a x61s, and I would like buy the OCZ MiniPCI-Express SSD. So, did anyone try to install this SSD to one's laptop?

I thought about buying one for my laptop. But when others said X61 does not support booting from the card.. I decided not to buy it. If the X61 could boot from it, I would take out the hard drive to reduce the weight of the laptop.

I know you can't boot from it, but does the X61 even support it at all? (i.e. if I pop one in, would my OS even be able to access it?)

ThinkRob wrote:I know you can't boot from it, but does the X61 even support it at all? (i.e. if I pop one in, would my OS even be able to access it?)

Disclaimer: I've not used one.

I believe these show up as another SATA controller, with a disk attached (even though, physically, it's all one part). Once the drivers for that SATA controller are installed, yes, it'd show up in your OS.

However, like someone mentioned, I doubt Thinkpads support booting from these.

tamasrepus wrote: I believe these show up as another SATA controller, with a disk attached (even though, physically, it's all one part). Once the drivers for that SATA controller are installed, yes, it'd show up in your OS.

Hm... depending on the performance of these things I can definitely see using it for swap or for suspend-to-disk.

Time to see if I can find some thorough benchmarks...

ThinkRob wrote: Hm... depending on the performance of these things I can definitely see using it for swap or for suspend-to-disk.

Rather than wasting money on an SSD-backed swap, it's better to max out your RAM, if you haven't done so already.