Inexpensive Samsung 128GB SSD available on eBay

[Pete B]

Yes it is that one which is probably perfect for the T60/61 but even with the rubber off is VERY tight.
I removed the 2 screws and the metal part and now it goes in still tight but not so bad. It does not have the standard 2.5" screw holes and therefore I cannot put the Dell D830 trim piece on. I'll probably buy a standard format adapter since they are so inexpensive.

I did a quick Win 7 install and I just want to see how this drive works, then I'll try to flash it for TRIM support.

EDIT: Crystal Disk Info shows it as having TRIM support with the factory firmware.

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify Returns a 0 indicating that Win7 has TRIM enabled.

Crystal Disk Mark 3.0.2 results:

Read/ Write MB/sec:
Seq: 202.2 121.0
512K: 158.9 84.33
4K: 15.28 4.747
4K QD32: 23.58 4.488

Sequential write actually scored significantly higher on an older system without AHCI at 180.1 - strange? The drive was empty on that system and was not the operating system drive.

[Pete B]

Now I'm wondering if the VBM95D1Q firmware update is newer or older than what was shipped with this SSD. It already supports TRIM, but I'm wondering if it might fix other bugs. It will save a lot of time digging through old threads if anyone knows off hand. Firmware shipped with this drive is VBM9LD1Q and is listed as "compatible" with the VBM95D1Q upgrade as discussed in the Dell firmware upgrade thread. I would not mind if the firmware "upgrade" fixes some performance related bugs if there are any.

[skygodtj]

I haven't looked myself to do these on the ones I have, but I'd think the Samsung site would list the firmware dates and, changes. I put the drives in my wife's and kids' T400's, running W7 HP and they seem to be running fine. I ran CDM on my wifes T400 and I remember the first block (top of the transfer test stack) being 208.x The Random was 128.x.. The 4K transfer was.. eh.. 8.x I think.. not stellar by any means but was still waaaay above the 100GB/7200 rpm Fuji drive that came with it.