Basic question re SSD upgrade foe X230

[haryo]

Will any of the current line of SanDisk 480GB - 960GB SATA lll 7mm SSDs work in my X230? (eg. Extreme, Extreme Pro, Ultra ll) Thanks.

[Brad]

Yes

[ZaZ]

Another less expensive option would be to buy a smaller mSATA SSD for the boot drive, then a 7mm platter drive for the main bay, which go up to 1TB.

[haryo]

I'm familiarizing myself with the concept, but as I like to remove the drive from time to time to clone it in a cloning device, presently I think I'd rather avoid the modest disassembly that would be required.

[evening_hunger]

I have nearly no experience with cloning Windows partitions (which, I reckon, is what you're referring to). But if you applied ZaZ's suggestion, you could slide blank discs (receivers) into the hdd bay and clone from your mSata (holding system and clonezilla) onto the newly inserted hdd/sdd in the bay. Then slide back your platter 1TB.
Good luck anyways!

[haryo]

Well, I got a Ultra ll 480GB and it worked for a week (windows 8.1) then the display locked up and on reboots I get the 2100 HDD detection error. After trying all suggestion I got nowhere. It is also now undetectable in an external dock that did see it before, and when I put it in another laptop the boot report is 'no operating system found' I assume it's dead and Amazon is sending a replacement. All firmwares were current. The old hard drive works fine in the machine. Somewhere I saw someone talking about some thinkpads being problematic with some SSD's and one needs to turn off some aspects of power management in the bios. I can't remember more than that, but I hope there isn't something esoteric that will bite me again.

[no_man]

November 2014, I installed the SanDisk Extreme PRO 480GB SATA 6.0GB/s 2.5 - inch 7mm with 10 Year Warranty, into my X230 (replaced the existing 256GB SSD).
Results as expected, no adjustments required, error free. X230 (i7, 16GB, Windows 7 Ultimate x64).

[anarky321]

i have a 1tb mSATA as boot/windows/games and a 2tb mechanical as "main archive"

you have to nudge on the 9.5mm a bit to get it to fit but i've been stuffing 9.5mm drives in all my thinkpads going back to the x40 or whatever i had first, with no ill effects

i also keep a full offline wikipedia on an SD card in the sd-slot...just wish they would come out with a 1tb SD card...still looking around for a good expresscard sd adapter to add a second sd card...

also just FYI the next generation Samsung SSD's are coming out VERY SOON and in 4TB capacity....can't beat 5TB+ SSD storage in an x-series http://www.anandtech.com/show/9652/sams ... re-in-2016

2TB 7mm SSD's just came out btw http://www.pcworld.com/article/3033099/ ... books.html

NVMe m.2 SSD's are still playing catch-up on capacity but the 1TB models are coming out this year, which is going to make upgrading a serious possibility for me, because I refuse to upgrade to a newer x-series if im going to downgrade in storage capacity because of M.2...im actually surprised it took them this long to roll out a 1TB model

for the most value-concious solution id deff recommend 1tb msata + 2tb mechanical...works great