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Hey guys, I am looking to get an msata card for my t520 and install the os on it. When I install the card.. will it appear as any other HD would in the setup or is there something i need to load?

Thank you

It looks like another drive.

ZaZ wrote:It looks like another drive.

easy enough, thanks!

Ever since installing msata and dropping the OS on it I get random blue screens. Sucks! Wiping it installing OS on my ssd and using msata for storage. Sucks.

Which machine do you have and how did you install the OS?

Thinkpad t520 windows 7 64 bit.
When I reinstalled the win 7 on the main ssd.. i noticed that the msata was going in and out from being recognized. The last thing I did was open the machine up and remove the black plastic cover from the card which I left in. It was like a place holder or somrething. Possible the card over heated or something?

Did a clean install btw off a disk. It finished just fine and was up and running. then the blue screens started.

Do you have the i7 and does it say anything in Event Viewer?

Yes i7 and nothing specific in event viewer. Just said critical error possibly caused by power failure etc

Do you have the latest BIOS/updates?

Yes. I just ended up doing a clean install over again. It was going well for a while, and then suddenly the drive was no longer recognized. Windows froze and when i open Computer C: is missing. Yup. Super unstable, so I am rebuilding the OS on the ssd 2.5 drive. I give up.

I encountered similar problems with my mSata T50 on a T420S.

Occasionally it would BSOD with a POWER STATE error - I think the msata goes missing.

Might be a power management thing.

My plan is probably to go back to just using the SATA drive.