Can one add a 2nd SSD

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pmeinl · #1 Post by **pmeinl** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:22 am

Can one add a 2nd mSATA SSD to the X1 Carbon Touch?

wditters · #2 Post by **wditters** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:39 am

pmeinl wrote:Can one add a 2nd mSATA SSD to the X1 Carbon Touch?

Nope, there is no slot that would allow an mSata drive. The only slot that is would be available is a mini slot for a mini WWAN card and currently there are no mSata drives that would even fit, let alone whether or not it would support the PCIE interface.

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buckalho · #3 Post by **buckalho** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:21 am

wditters wrote: Nope, there is no slot that would allow an mSata drive. The only slot that is would be available is a mini slot for a mini WWAN card and currently there are no mSata drives that would even fit, let alone whether or not it would support the PCIE interface.

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As for WWAN card, I found this PCI-e Half mini SSD:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Sandisk-SDS ... 2c71d8cd70

But I'm not 100% sure if WWAN card has SATA driver.

I found many WLAN card that can fit into the WWAN slot. So, if WWAN slot has no mSATA support, we can try:
- putting WLAN half-mini card on WWAN slot. Since the antenna placement is similar to WLAN, there shouldn't be any signal impact?
- Put mSata SSD on WLAN slot. mSata has the same form factor as PCI-e if I'm not mistaken

I read it somewhere that all newer Thinkpad laptops has mSATA support on their mini-PCIe.

But as an example, X220.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product ... D=PD024318

I haven't tried it yet, but if anyone willing to test it out, can you let us know if it works/not.