Re: The X220 with the Renice X3

androstan · ‎08-17-2011

Partition manager had a separate "boot manager" that I put on the backup external drive. When I powered on the laptop with the external drive plugged in, it allowed me to boot from it.

Looks like the intel 510 is properly aligned also, according to the partition starting offset being integrally divisible by 4096.

JNavas · ‎08-07-2010

androstan wrote:
Partition manager had a separate "boot manager" that I put on the backup external drive. When I powered on the laptop with the external drive plugged in, it allowed me to boot from it.
Looks like the intel 510 is properly aligned also, according to the partition starting offset being integrally divisible by 4096.

Cool, thanks.

androstan · ‎08-17-2011

Whoo!

Harima · ‎09-01-2011

If I put a HDD and a SSD Renice on the X220,...

... is it possible temporarily to "uncheck" in the Bios the HDD , so I 'll not hear the noise of the HDD and still I keep a storage capacity ??

JNavas · ‎08-07-2010

Harima wrote:
If I put a HDD and a SSD Renice on the X220,...
... is it possible temporarily to "uncheck" in the Bios the HDD , so I 'll not hear the noise of the HDD and still I keep a storage capacity ??

If your HDD is that noisy, it's defective.
That said, to silence your HDD when you're not using it:

Open Power Manager
Switch to: Advanced
Expand Idle timers
Set Stop hard disk rotation to low value(s).

Harima · ‎09-01-2011

OK, thank you,

so I concluded of that :

it is better

- to buy an X200 with a hard drive, then .. add an mSATA,

-rather than buying directly X200 with onlyone SSD. ? (a SSD over HDD idle consume no more and is not noisier than a SSD?)

What do you think ?

JNavas · ‎08-07-2010

Harima wrote:
OK, thank you,
so I concluded of that :
it is better
- to buy an X200 with a hard drive, then .. add an mSATA,
-rather than buying directly X200 with onlyone SSD. ? (a SSD over HDD idle consume no more and is not noisier than a SSD?)
What do you think ?

I agree. It's what I did.

freed · ‎12-10-2008

Very nice man. But you should limit or just plain stop benchmarking your 510 to preserve its life

Didn't I tell ya that this was the way to go, and no BSOD or freezing problems with the Intel SSDs and Lenovo so far.

mobiuspizza · ‎06-24-2011

Hey guys I have real trouble starting to crop up with my Renice X3 after a month of usage. I am now getting frequent BSOD, freezes. I am getting 100% failure rate with Acronis backup trying to read the whole drive. It would either randomly freeze at some point of the backup or give me a bluescreen.Some times Windows can't even start up!

I had ran chkdsk without problem though.The HDD activity LED will lit up when disk is stuck.

Windows Task Manager and Resource Monitor will show 100% disk activity but low transfer rate. (See pic)

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/AnnihilatorX/ReniceX3.png

The Lenovo BIOS, chipset drive, Renice X3 firmware are all up to date.

I am pretty sure it's not chipset driver, because I also tried MS stock AHCI driver.

It is very annoying because I've had the drive for more than a month and therefore I can't get a refund or so.

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JNavas · ‎08-07-2010

mobiuspizza wrote:
Hey guys I have real trouble starting to crop up with my Renice X3 after a month of usage. I am now getting frequent BSOD, freezes. I am getting 100% failure rate with Acronis backup trying to read the whole drive. It would either randomly freeze at some point of the backup or give me a bluescreen.Some times Windows can't even start up!
I had ran chkdsk without problem though.The HDD activity LED will lit up when disk is stuck.
Windows Task Manager and Resource Monitor will show 100% disk activity but low transfer rate. (See pic)
The Lenovo BIOS, chipset drive, Renice X3 firmware are all up to date.
I am pretty sure it's not chipset driver, because I also tried MS stock AHCI driver.
It is very annoying because I've had the drive for more than a month and therefore I can't get a refund or so.

Try completely removing the mSATA card from your machine, then carefully reseating and securing it.