Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

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Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

#1 Post by twnrsworld » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:49 am

Just wondering if mSATA SSD and Wireless card can co-exist on X230?

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Re: Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

#2 Post by twistero » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:09 am

WLAN, yes. WWAN, probably not.
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Re: Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

#3 Post by bill bolton » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:45 pm

twnrsworld wrote:Just wondering if mSATA SSD and Wireless card can co-exist on X230?
If by "wireless" you mean a 3G/4G WWAN card, the answer is definitely no.

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Re: Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

#4 Post by twnrsworld » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:42 pm

twnrsworld wrote:Just wondering if mSATA SSD and Wireless card can co-exist on X230?
I have upgraded with mSATA as my booting drive.
But now I have another issue.
mSATA is kind of too small for my applications. I upgrade original HHD to 240GB SSD.
I followed the same procedure that I used to add mSATA as current booting device.

The mSATA is booting device that is identified as SATA2 in BIOS.
I replaced HHD by an SSD that is identified as SATA0 in BIOS.
SSD is set with higher boot priority than mSATA in BIOS.
Before upgrading to SSD, I made a system image backup on external USB drive.
When I boot my X230 with SYSTEM RECOVERY CD, it turned out that mSATA is DISK0 and SSD is DISK1 and I can not recover system image to the newly installed SSD.
Actually I have done the same procedure before. When I added mSATA, I followed the same procedure to recover system image to mSATA and it worked perfectly!
What should I do?

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Re: Can mSATA SSD and Wireless card co-exist on X230?

#5 Post by awolfe63 » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:37 pm

Take out the mSata.
Do a restore to the SSD
replace the mSata
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