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Anyone know if I can get a Patriot Pyro SE to fit in the x200?

http://patriotmemory.com/products/detai ... etailp.jsp

It's a 9mm drive but it looks like some people are reporting that they can get 9mm SSD to fit (sometimes by removing something, sometimes just because SSD is smaller than HDD?)

I thought 9mm drives were standard, and its the X220 that uses the slimmer 7mm drives?

Atreides wrote:I thought 9mm drives were standard, and its the X220 that uses the slimmer 7mm drives?

You are correct. The X200 uses standard 9.5mm drives, and the X220 uses the smaller 7mm form factor. However, there are SSDs on the market(Intel in particular comes to mind) which use a 'spacer' on top of the drive to get it to fit the 9.5mm form factor. Remove the spacer and you have a 7mm drive.

Where do you get those screws for the 7mm drive?

Okay great, I guess I just got confused with the x220 posts.

Are there any resources (or can anyone help me) that walks through how to set up an SSD on something like the X200?

Right now my understanding is I'll take out my old HDD, plug in the new SSD, change boot list order to start with USB, boot from my external HDD (with windows on it), and then install windows? But I've never booted a blank drive before, does this work?

And what about the million things I'm supposed to do like AHCP and firmware updates?

so confused

mooingmooseman wrote:Okay great, I guess I just got confused with the x220 posts.

Are there any resources (or can anyone help me) that walks through how to set up an SSD on something like the X200?

Right now my understanding is I'll take out my old HDD, plug in the new SSD, change boot list order to start with USB, boot from my external HDD (with windows on it), and then install windows? But I've never booted a blank drive before, does this work?

And what about the million things I'm supposed to do like AHCP and firmware updates?

so confused

Some SSDs will come with software that will allow you to clone your old drive over to the SSD, this is the easiest way to go about things.

If you want to install Windows fresh on the SSD, then move over your data there are a few more steps. You'll need either an external CD/DVD drive, or make yourself a Windows install thumb drive. Press F12 on bootup, select whatever you're using, then just go ahead and install. And I think what you're thinking of is AHCI, just go into the BIOS before you install and make sure its enabled. It should work even if its not though. Firmware updates are no biggie either, most SSDs nowadays have software that makes them a piece of cake.