ssd mSATA cache improvements

[FTC]

Hi,

This is only to comment for anyone's reference the huge improvement that adding an mSATA SSD drive as a disk cache (w/expresscache) has made to my T430.My boot to desktop times have been reduced from 3:30 minutes to 1.04, and all most used programs load now instantly.. I know that of course adding a big SSD as the primary partition would be even better, but such solution is more expensive (note that you can have a 30GB SSD mSATA disk to use as cache for about 30-40 USD today, but 100+ GB SSDs are much more expensive).
So all in all, a highly recommended upgrade.

[ZaZ]

I don't think you need a big SSD for the OS. That's the great thing about the mSATA SSD, a small SSD to use as the boot drive and keep the platter drive in the main bay for storage where speed is not as important.

[FTC]

ZaZ hi, yes, you are right, but if you just put the OS and a couple of apps im the SSD, then I think in overall it *may* still be better a good cache algorithm, that adapts itself dynamically to store what you use more, and has an almost zero setup time...