Thinkpad Edge E530 HDD+mSATA SSD 16GB

[pavelz]

Hi,

I'd like to by new Thinkpad Edge E530. There is a version with HDD+mSATA SSD 16GB. Is is worth to pay extra money for it? Is there any significat speed up?

Thanks

[ZaZ]

You're usually better offer doing it yourself. It's not that hard and generally less expensive to do it yourself.

[wolfman]

Hi,

I'd like to by new Thinkpad Edge E530. There is a version with HDD+mSATA SSD 16GB. Is is worth to pay extra money for it? Is there any significat speed up?

Thanks

How much extra? In the US I believe they are charging $40 for this option. The mSATA SSD will be used as a cache drive for frequently accessed files on the mechanical disk. Reports I've heard are that this does a very nice job speeding up commonly accessed programs and is a nice in between solution if you don't want to spend the money for an SSD that is large enough to boot the OS, install essential programs on, etc.

[pustekuchencak3]

Of course it is better than without - but buying a separate mSATA SSD is much more better! This one is a good one: Crucial CT128M4SSD3 128GB.
So better leave the cache-SSD out, buy a normal mSATA SSD, install it to the mSATA slot and manually install Win7...

[pavelz]

I already did that with 64GB mSATA and it's awesome. Anyway thanks for reply.