does anyone has the t410 with sata III hdd inside?

[pe4fal3u]

Hello,

I am considering about replacing standard hdd by ssd drive and I am thinking is it sense to put SATA III drive inside.

Does anyone have this configuration and could talk about performance?

regards

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

the T410 doesn't support SATAIII speed, you can use these drive in it, but you won't exceed the SATAII speed.

[pe4fal3u]

Yes, I know,

OK, but I would like to know users experience.

[ExJamJus]

I used a OCZ Agility 3 (Sata III) on the T410 previously then I moved to SSD to a W520 (support Sata III)... Both laptop boots fast and open applications at an amazing speed.... Not sure how to explain my experience though ...

I am not sure how to measure the performance cause I didn't do any benchmarking during that time ... but all I can say is .... SSDs are amazing ... hahaha

[pe4fal3u]

hello,

thank you for reply,

You can measure the disk speed by HDTune or HDTach.

Could you do this? Think that this should be informative for other users too.

best regards

[ExJamJus]

@pe4fal3u,

I removed the SSD from the T410 and put it to my home PC. Also am currently using a T420 right now. Sorry I can't do the benchmarking test for you.

[JDay]

You are not going to get more than about 275MB/s read/write speeds from a SATA-II controller. Putting a SATA-III drive on a SATA-II controller will saturate the controller and give you the max possible speed that your SATA-II controller supports. I would not hesitate to buy a SATA-III SSD since if you upgrade to a newer system in the future you can put it into the new machine and get even faster speeds and the drives cost about the same as SATA-II models. Not to mention the newer drives are more reliable.

[ExJamJus]

Nicely put JDay....

Indeed the prices of SSD has dropped drastically since I bought the drive back a year ago. So tempted to get another 60GB to do a raid 0 configuration on the PC. Am just worried that it might fail and am back to a 1 60GB SSD config.

[JDay]

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ExJamJus wrote:
Nicely put JDay....

Indeed the prices of SSD has dropped drastically since I bought the drive back a year ago. So tempted to get another 60GB to do a raid 0 configuration on the PC. Am just worried that it might fail and am back to a 1 60GB SSD config.

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I'd just buy a larger, faster SSD. And a SATA-III PCI-E control card if the PC doesn't have SATA-III. RAID is also picky about drives used, if the new one has a different hardware revision you could run into problems, that is why you should buy the drives at the same time for a RAID setup.