SSD install tips needed for T60p

[Turboqueef]

Good day,

I will be installing a Samsung 128GB SATA-II (3.0 GB/sec) 2.5" Solid State Disk Drive. (Model # MMDOE28G5MPP-0VA) in my T60p.

My plan is to clone the current drive to the SSD and make a quick swap.

I would like to know if I need to update any controller drivers etc. to make the SSD drive work.

Any tips you may have are appreciated.

Thank you,

[TTY]

In this blog, Matt Kohut, Competitive Analyst Lenovo WorldWide, deals with migrating to a SSD. In this blog, he recommends defragmenting the mechanical HDD before migrating. He also indicates that he has the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver installed.

[Turboqueef]

In this blog, Matt Kohut, Competitive Analyst Lenovo WorldWide, deals with migrating to a SSD. In this blog, he recommends defragmenting the mechanical HDD before migrating. He also indicates that he has the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver installed.

Very good info.. thank you

[Turboqueef]

UPDATE: I took the advice provided by TTY and it worked great. I could not "clone" the drive (tried to use a USB hard drive adapter) but after a clean install of my system using the IBM disks it worked fine.

I am still installing some of my programs and don't have a lot of time on the new drive but I can notice a marked improvement in speed during boot.

Thanks for the info...

Jeff B

Good day,

I will be installing a Samsung 128GB SATA-II (3.0 GB/sec) 2.5" Solid State Disk Drive. (Model # MMDOE28G5MPP-0VA) in my T60p.

My plan is to clone the current drive to the SSD and make a quick swap.

I would like to know if I need to update any controller drivers etc. to make the SSD drive work.

Any tips you may have are appreciated.

Thank you,

[StevenD]

Hi, Jeff,

Can you tell me what happened when you tried but failed to clone your hard drive to the SSD? I'd like to do the same, but I've got about a million programs installed on this T60p, and I wouldn't consider moving to another drive if I had to re-install everything.

I thought I'd use Acronis and an external USB HDD, like I did (smoothly) when I upgraded from a smaller HDD to my current HDD.

Also, is that Samsung really a $4,000 drive? I'm curious why you selected that instead of, say, the Intel X25-M, which is only 80gig, but also only about $600.

Thanks for any insight.

--Steve

[Turboqueef]

Hi, Jeff,

Can you tell me what happened when you tried but failed to clone your hard drive to the SSD? I'd like to do the same, but I've got about a million programs installed on this T60p, and I wouldn't consider moving to another drive if I had to re-install everything.

I thought I'd use Acronis and an external USB HDD, like I did (smoothly) when I upgraded from a smaller HDD to my current HDD.

Also, is that Samsung really a $4,000 drive? I'm curious why you selected that instead of, say, the Intel X25-M, which is only 80gig, but also only about $600.

Thanks for any insight.

--Steve

Hi Steve,

The Samsung drive cost was $469.00 after the $200.00 cash back through live.com (ebay promotion).

I used Acronis to perform the clone. I used the automatic mode. All of the files looked to transfer to the SSD but I could not get it to boot from this drive. I tried to perform the clone twice but still no go so I ended up using the IBM disks.

To date, the drive is working very well.

Take care,

[StevenD]

Hi, Jeff,

Did you ask Samsung's tech support about it?

/S

[Turboqueef]

Hi, Jeff,

Did you ask Samsung's tech support about it?

/S

Nope.. it was not so difficult for me to reload everything....because it has become a yearly process (with all of the hard drive failures)... I have made a special folder with all of my programs and key files... makes the swap much easier.