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Have made the factory restore disks and awaiting on Saturday delivery of the SSD.

Have run nurmerous tests on the X200 and am looking forward to seeing how the drive will improve battery consumption and overall performance. I have sued the 128 SSD in the X301 and was not too impressed. I have been told the Samsung model is better and the SATA2 perfomance will be improved. I am already impressed with the X200 pewrformance over the X301 so more improvement will just be gravy.

Amazed by the short time for the restore to complete. Boot up is MUCH quicker and there is zero heat on the right side bottom of the X200. Only time will tell but I sure needed to extra space. All my files can head out into the filed and have space to spare.

That is great to hear. Where did you get the SSD?

I paid a premium and purchased it, new, off of eBay. I looked very carefully and it was new not a mark on any of the contacts. The seller gets them directly from the distributor.

Is it the 2.5" or 1.8" form factor you got?

Have you already done some benchmarks? It would be definitely interesting to hear some results from first hand

Mine is Samsung 128GB one, 2.5" case, super fast when I installed Vista Ultimate 64, x200 runs quite, not hot at all at the bottom.
256GB version is a lot better than 128GB one from what I read from Toms Hardware report, but it is pricey.

LD

Can you post a CrystalDiskMark (read & write) bench ?
Is your X200 a SATA 150 or 300 ?

CrystalDiskmark 2.2 report on Samsung 128GB SSD
x200 with Vista Ultimate 64bit, 8GB ram, 128GB SSD Samsung MMCQE28G8MUP

Seq Read 98.55MB/s
Seq Write 65.34MB/s

Hope this helps
LD

Thanks a lot, Ludu
T60p with XP Pro 3 GB ram on a SSDSA2SH032G1GN (X25E 32 GB...24 effective)
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 132.021 MB/s
Sequential Write : 118.407 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 114.296 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 127.216 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 18.479 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 38.044 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/05/24 10:07:36

Those are some awesome numbers from a MLC drive. It all comes down to Intel not screwing around of course. I would love to see what they can do with a SLC drive.

visionviper wrote:Those are some awesome numbers from a MLC drive. It all comes down to Intel not screwing around of course. I would love to see what they can do with a SLC drive.

It's a SLC drive
It's a X25E
I'm upset coz it can tops at 200 reading and 180 writing with a SATA 300 non avaliable on any TP now !!!

Rochefort wrote: It's a SLC drive
It's a X25E
I'm upset coz it can tops at 200 reading and 180 writing with a SATA 300 non avaliable on any TP now !!!

Sure enough, it's only the X25-M that's MLC. I thought both drives were MLC

can you post your 256 GB 's performance test？

I believed Intel has the best SSD drives, but too pricey
LD

Rochefort wrote:Thanks a lot, Ludu
T60p with XP Pro 3 GB ram on a SSDSA2SH032G1GN (X25E 32 GB...24 effective)
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 132.021 MB/s
Sequential Write : 118.407 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 114.296 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 127.216 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 18.479 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 38.044 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/05/24 10:07:36

ludu35 wrote:I believed Intel has the best SSD drives, but too pricey
LD

Right
but for me,it's the only way to improve my beloved T60 SATA 150 perfs
For <500 bucks i can keep it for 1 year more enough to wait for the new models coming with SATA 3 and Windows Seven...I hope !?

Rochefort wrote:For <500 bucks i can keep it for 1 year more enough to wait for the new models coming with SATA 3 and Windows Seven...I hope !?

Stupid SATA 3 is more or less the only reason I am waiting to do an overhaul on my desktop. I just don't want to use an add-in card for SATA 3 support.

I did read somewhere that we should see some SSDs this year that max out the SATA 2 bandwidth - but they will cost a pretty penny of course.

visionviper wrote: Stupid SATA 3 is more or less the only reason I am waiting to do an overhaul on my desktop. I just don't want to use an add-in card for SATA 3 support.

I did read somewhere that we should see some SSDs this year that max out the SATA 2 bandwidth - but they will cost a pretty penny of course.

Anyway the Intel is in my pocket , I can use it with any N-Book coming but to day I want to keep my beloved T60 15' 4/3 IPS
24 GB is enough for me for the OS & my professional software; I backup everyday on an external HD in Raid 1 for the security.
It's sure that many SSD are coming much faster'n cheaper but, to day I want the best technology avaliable.
To morrow wait'n see