[ltp] solid state drive?

Tosh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:33:53 +0100


Volker Krueger wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am interested in your comments on solid state drives?
> Does any one have experiences with cheaper non-lenovo drives?
> what is the speed and wattage? Can one actually save battery time with them?
>
> any info welcome :-))
>
> best,
> Volker
>
>
have sold an ThinkPad X200 with an Intel 80GB SSD MLC (special boot 
edition), the person is running CentOS 5 and is very happy about speed 
an wattage is also les, how much we haven't tested exactly, but roughly 
about half