Mushkin Atlas mSATA 240GB SATA III and T520

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Mushkin Atlas mSATA 240GB SATA III and T520

#1 Post by rickh925 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:28 am

I am considering replacing my Intel 80gig 310 mSATA with one of the new Mushkin Atlas 240GB mSATA drives. Has anyone tried this? Will it work?

I am primarily a system admin/developer/IT consultant and run lots of virtual machines from clients on my laptop to troubleshoot hence the 1TB drive and 8GB (soon to be 16GB) of RAM. I dual boot into either Win7, ESXi, and occasionally BackTrack for pen testing. Basically I'm tired of constantly having to move/Junction folders from the 80gig C: drive to either the internal 240GB SSD or 1TB in the Drive Bay. I'm down to 6GB on C: now and would like to just bite the bullet and go to 240GB on C and possibly one of the 512GB SSDs in the internal bay. Of course I'm not quite ready to drop $600 on a 512GB SSD. :(

Anyone with experience with this drive yet?

Rick
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ThinkPad T520 i5 2540M, 8GB (soon 16GB) RAM
Intel 310 mSATA 80GB, OCZ Agility3 240GB, WD10JPVT 1TB (Drive Bay)

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Re: Mushkin Atlas mSATA 240GB SATA III and T520

#2 Post by Kaze22 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:28 am

If 256 msata is what you want why not get a Runcore 256 msata.
Its been tested to work on Thinkpads.
Thinkpad W520 | Intel i7 2.5 XM | 1920x1080 FHD 95% Gamut | 32 GB DDR3 | 128GB MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD | 2GB NVIDIA QUADRO 2000M | UEFI WIN 7

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Re: Mushkin Atlas mSATA 240GB SATA III and T520

#3 Post by rickh925 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:45 am

Kaze22 wrote:If 256 msata is what you want why not get a Runcore 256 msata.
Its been tested to work on Thinkpads.
I can't seem to find anything in the 240-256GB range for RunCore mSATA. I'm sure this is just begging for the copy paste Google link, but I searched around and couldn't find it. :)

Any links or product numbers?

Rick

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Re: Mushkin Atlas mSATA 240GB SATA III and T520

#4 Post by Kaze22 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:07 am

I saw one on EBay, a while back.
Thinkpad W520 | Intel i7 2.5 XM | 1920x1080 FHD 95% Gamut | 32 GB DDR3 | 128GB MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD | 2GB NVIDIA QUADRO 2000M | UEFI WIN 7

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