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2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

T430-T495, T530-T590 Series
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2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

#1 Post by Dro » Tue Dec 14, 2021 5:12 am

Thought I'd post this for anyone who might be interested, just picked a 2tb hynix msata ssd, the model is sk-600, till now the only way I knew to get a 2tb msata was to shuck it from a samsung t3 portable ssd, so far still testing it but it's using 2x1tb nands so speed is so-so, I'm attaching a couple of photos

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Re: 2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

#2 Post by mikemex » Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:20 am

Where did you get it? Have you actually tested to store 2TB on it?

I ask because, normally, the whole model number shown in the sticker also appears in the title of the application and here it doesn't. That's a red flag.
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Re: 2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

#3 Post by RealBlackStuff » Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:27 pm

Contains parts suscetible to damage by Electrostatic Discharg(ESD) [Chinese knock-off]
Contains parts susceptible to damage by Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) [should be]

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Fake, fake, fake...
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Re: 2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

#4 Post by Dro » Wed Dec 15, 2021 6:58 pm

mikemex wrote:
Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:20 am
Where did you get it? Have you actually tested to store 2TB on it?

I ask because, normally, the whole model number shown in the sticker also appears in the title of the application and here it doesn't. That's a red flag.
Picked it up in a shop in Shenzhen,China, It is actually 2TB, tested a couple of times with h2testw, but as RealBlackStuff said, fake, I didn't pay too much attention neither when I bought it nor when I posted about it, and probably I should have had, the main issue of the SSD is that it overheats after 20 min of sustained writes and speed drops to about 140mb/s , I ended up returning it for a refund.

Sorry for wasting people's time :oops:
Daily driver : X330 | 3612qe| 16GB | 4TB ssd| classic keyboard mod | 13.3″ 16:10 2560*1600 screen mod | wifi ax3000hmv | 9 cell battery | usb-c charging |
Backup : T430s | 3612qe | 16GB | 2TB ssd| classic keyboard mod | FHD mod | wifi ax3000hmv | ultrabay battery |

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Re: 2tb msata ssd for t430s and older thinkpads

#5 Post by axur-delmeria » Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:24 pm

Dro wrote:
Wed Dec 15, 2021 6:58 pm
Picked it up in a shop in Shenzhen,China, It is actually 2TB, tested a couple of times with h2testw, but as RealBlackStuff said, fake, I didn't pay too much attention neither when I bought it nor when I posted about it, and probably I should have had, the main issue of the SSD is that it overheats after 20 min of sustained writes and speed drops to about 140mb/s , I ended up returning it for a refund.

Sorry for wasting people's time :oops:
It isn't a waste if we learned something from it. To be honest, the first time I saw the picture, I immediately thought that it was a fake. The embarrassing performance cemented that.
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