SSD in Z61m?

[mlemon]

I've got a Z61m in like-new condition, thinking about a SSD drive update to give it a couple more years life.

Anyone done this yet? Will the Intel 510 work?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Phidelio]

I've got a Z61m in like-new condition, thinking about a SSD drive update to give it a couple more years life.

Anyone done this yet? Will the Intel 510 work?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

Should work. I use an SSD in my t61p and I dont see why the Z61 would be different.

[Tsunade]

Intel 510 should work but you will not get the SATA 3 speeds.

[BillMorrow]

i have several kingston 120GB SSD's (about $135 each on average, i tweeted on these specials in the thinkpas.com twitter project) in several T60 and T61's..
all work just fine BUT i don't see much visual impact on speed..
BUT then i have never done a side by side comparison..

[ZaZ]

all work just fine BUT i don't see much visual impact on speed..

SSDs have been over-hyped in my opinion. They are gimped in low power mode, which no reviews I've ever seem to mention this. For a laptop running in low power mode, they aren't much better than a platter based drive. There is a registry tweak that largely fixes the issue, but battery life takes a pretty sizable hit, which is probably why they did it that way. The biggest plus I've seen is because they have no moving parts, they're very quiet. This is nice for X series machine which don't seem to shield much noise, though I will say the Hitachi 7mm drive I've got in my X220i seems pretty quiet.

[AMATX]

I've been running El Cheapo(Kingspec) SSDs in two Z61p laptops for 1+ years now, and contrary to the above posts, the diff is night & day. HUGE improvement in boot times, app load times and general response. A new lease on life for these old puppies. Really gives you the boost necessary to squeeze a few more years out of 'em. Plus, the laptops run noticeably cooler & quieter, too. Now, if you're running a heavy production load, they won't beat any of the more recent laptops, but for general web + Word + Excel stuff, it's the best bang for the buck I know of.

You can get a 32G-ish SSD for ~$100 or less, which makes for a very cheap way to beef up a Z61x laptop. Just clone the old drive to the SSD, pop it in and boot it up. Now, under XP you'll end up with the SSD alignment issue(search forum for more info), but even with that, it's way faster than what I had in the past. And, after 1+ year, I have yet to notice any real degradation in performance.

I run what is apparently a common config in my laptops: SSD primary drive, with a data conventional HD in the ultrabay slot. Quick + archival = Very Nice

Standard stuff applies, in that you should make sure you have adequate backups, etc...other than that, go for it...