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SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:38 am
by inogen
Has anyone managed to put an ssd like :
http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... erview.htm
Into the mini PCI express ports on an x61?
Would it work? Can we boot from it?
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:02 pm
by ausmike
Ino*;
you can BUY an EXPRRESS SLOT SSD .... there lots of diff brands avalible ....
here is one
EXAMPLE
Hope this helps
Cheers
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:16 am
by EOMtp
inogen wrote:Would it work? Can we boot from it?
No; consequently, no.
Note: An Express Card slot device (referenced above) also will not work, because the X6x series has PC Card slot, not Express Card slot.
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:49 am
by inogen
EOMtp wrote:No; consequently, no.
Note: An Express Card slot device (referenced above) also will not work, because the X6x series has PC Card slot, not Express Card slot.
Hiya,
I'm not talking about the PC(PCMCIA) slot. I'm talking about the two internal PCI Express slots. The ones under the keyboard. One has the Wifi card in, some x61 have a WWAN card in the other, or a readyboost card. Mine has neither so has a free slot.
They look very similar...
Intel 310
X61 Wifi Card
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:55 am
by inogen
ausmike wrote:Ino*;
you can BUY an EXPRRESS SLOT SSD .... there lots of diff brands avalible ....
here is one
EXAMPLE
Hope this helps
Cheers
Do they work though?
I just spoke to Lenovo tech support. They say you can put disk drives in there... but that the bios won't see it.
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:26 pm
by EOMtp
inogen wrote:Do they work though?
No.
[Note: It was clear to me from the start that you were referring to the internal slots, and my answers pertained to that. However, the other person had shown you an example of an ExpressCard 34 SSD, and that matter needed to be cleared up.]
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:39 pm
by pbsurf
The Super Talent Corestore MV mini-PCIe SSD (avail from Amazon) might work - I believe it is only the mini-PCIe SSD that actually uses a PCIe interface instead of mSATA. You won't get the full speed from the drive since the X61 is PCIe 1.0. Don't know if it's possible to boot from it. If anyone has tried this SSD in a thinkpad, I'd be very interested in hearing your experience.
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:48 pm
by Weogo
Hi Y'all,
Reviving an old thread...
Has anybody used a drive like these in an X61S? :
http://www.runcorestore.com/ProductDeta ... 1255616581
http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__MyDigita ... 872290707/
The X61S is running Middleton BIOS.
Thanks and good health, Weogo
Re: SSD on Mini PCI
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:33 pm
by twistero
The second one you linked is an mSATA drive, which will not work in a miniPCIe-only slot like the one in X61. (The miniPCIe slots in some computers, like the X220, also support mSATA at the same time, so you can put either a miniPCIe card or a mSATA ssd in there. Not the case with X61.)
I suspect that the first one is also a mSATA drive, instead of a miniPCIe SSD drive, but the wording is too vague to tell.