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I have a new T420s going to arrive tomorrow. It will have a 160 SSD installed by the factory. Wo would be the maker of this drive?

The reason I ask is because I also have a unused Intel SSDSA2M160G2GC 2.5" that I would install if it would perform better.

Any thought on if it would be worth the trouble?

Thanks

Greg Gebhardt wrote:It will have a 160 SSD installed by the factory. Wo would be the maker of this drive?

Most likely, an Intel 320 160GB SSD.

Cheers,

Bill B.

Is it the right time to choose SSD to replace HDD in a business machine such as T420S? I would prefer to use mSATA 32G or 64G SSD to install OS and keep HDD for data. In case SSD disk reachs to its life time (likely in 1~2 years based on the current technology), I still have my data in HDD.

What do you think?

You *are* aware that the lifetime for MLC SSD storage is quite a bit longer than that, right?
Even the 25nm flash drives (that Intel 320 is 25nm) have lifetimes of 10+ years.

So the machine itself will die before your SSD starts to lose capacity- but you'll probably take the drive with you to your next machine.
Or, the SSD will fail, but on its own accord just like a hard drive does.

See this article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd ... ,2923.html) for details.


Anyways: if you have applications that will use that disk intensively (i.e. Photoshop) or want the machine to be ready for use in ~30 seconds, get one. Otherwise, it's up to you.

Q-Ball wrote:You *are* aware that the lifetime for MLC SSD storage is quite a bit longer than that, right?
Even the 25nm flash drives (that Intel 320 is 25nm) have lifetimes of 10+ years.

So the machine itself will die before your SSD starts to lose capacity- but you'll probably take the drive with you to your next machine.
Or, the SSD will fail, but on its own accord just like a hard drive does.

See this article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd ... ,2923.html) for details.


Anyways: if you have applications that will use that disk intensively (i.e. Photoshop) or want the machine to be ready for use in ~30 seconds, get one. Otherwise, it's up to you.

Hello Q-ball, seems that you have only read the very first portion of the article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd ... ,2923.html). If you don't have time to read this long article, pls just read the chart at the last page. You will be easily conclude "AFR (annual failure rates) are slightly greater for SSDs than HDDs for the first 3 years or so". While the most of HDD vendors are trying to reduce their warranty period from 5yrs to 3yrs to 2yrs, do we really believe a SSD can work correctly for 10+yrs ?

I think the most important thing is that we still can recover the data from HDD (of course, very expensive), how about from SSD? No way!!