anyone tried the OCZ 120GB Nocti mSATA SSD?

[eos]

I have just seen these selling for nearly half the price of the renice equivalent.

Does anyone know if it works (100% reliably) in the W520 without any registry/bios hacking, and indeed without using a hacksaw to make it fit?

I know that the Thinkpads have poor campatibility with SSDs (other than the slower overpriced auto-bricking Intel Items) - the fact that so many people reported so many problems with OCZ vertex drives especially has made me stick to the old moving magnets.

However, the OCZ mSata is a tempting price, but I certanily dont want to waste hours fixing random crashes which seems to be the (popularly reported) hallmark of using SSDs, or trying to get the machine to boot of it which also seems like a painful excercise.

[NUTSH3LL]

bump

because I would also like to know

[nando4]

I would like to know to. It's using a newer SF21xx controller and costs less per-GB than than even a Intel 310. I've compared them at  mSATA & 1.8" SATA SSDs available .

[mrc]

Doesn't the Nocti use an older Sandforce-controller (SF-1200)? IOps ain't that high, but should be good enough for most with normal use.

[Sparkle]

bump, i'd also like to know if this SSD works with the W520 in the WWAN slot.. and, if someone has experience with it, what speed does it reach realistically?

[MattD22]

Well since it uses 24nm flash instead of 32nm like the Renice I would say the Renice is going to blow it away as far as speed goes.

[MattD22]

FYI, the renice is not that expencive if you buy it from the U.S.

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/renice-120gb-k3vlar-50mm-sandforce-msata-pci-e-ssd/

Only $299.99 there.

GL

[NUTSH3LL]

Has anyone ever purchased from The Electronic Supercenter? It is only $164 for the OCZ Nocti 120gb, but seems too good to be true, their site is suspect, and they only have a PO box with no reviews anywhere http://www.electronic-supercenter.com/products.php?product=OCZ-Technology-120-GB-Nocti-Series-3.0-Gb...

[MattD22]

That definitely looks strange since you have to use High GB nand flash (more expensive per GB) to build those because you can only fit 4 flash chips on the drive and the SF-12xx controller is not cheap.  I would also say that store having a better deal than Amazon would be an outright miricale.

[NUTSH3LL]

Only thing I was able to find on that vendor is a post on slickdeals. Apparently that store has only been up and running for a week. Eh... I think I'll pass on buying from them. In fact... I think I'll pass altogether, don't want to deal with the potential headache of compatibility issues again with another sandforce drive. Gonna wait for the Samsung.