surprisingly good SATA II experience
Pros: works well in my x61, much faster than HDD (obviously)
Cons: infrequent freezing (may not be SSD), nagging worry due to many issues with this era of drive
This truly transformed my early dual core thinkpad x61 ... NOTE I needed to use a BIOS mod to remove the original SATA 1 cap that IBM had included to accommodate the slow CD drive...understandable, as this came out early in the SATA era, so there were few if any SATA II drives then. Since the MB chipset is only SATA II, the newer SATA III (6Gbps) drives would not be much faster, and I am happy with this one.
It occasionally freezes for, perhaps, a second or two during internet browsing. This may be internet related, cpu related, or SSD related... so it may or may not be the fault of the drive. Only mentioning it because otherwise it has been a 200% increase in thinkpad goodness.
Aside from that, I have had no lockups, no BSODs, and no hangups during normal computer usage for the last year. Even the famous "return from sleep" problem has not shown up. Maybe I'm just lucky ... I hope I'm lucky, that would be fine with me.
I know that OCZ had a rash of frozen and locked drives in this time period, so I was quite nervous when I installed it. However, I have updated to the latest firmware for the SSD and have not (so far) seen any of this behavior.
Dinged 2 stars just because you shouldn't have to worry about total locked drive from the start.
It occasionally freezes for, perhaps, a second or two during internet browsing. This may be internet related, cpu related, or SSD related... so it may or may not be the fault of the drive. Only mentioning it because otherwise it has been a 200% increase in thinkpad goodness.
Aside from that, I have had no lockups, no BSODs, and no hangups during normal computer usage for the last year. Even the famous "return from sleep" problem has not shown up. Maybe I'm just lucky ... I hope I'm lucky, that would be fine with me.
I know that OCZ had a rash of frozen and locked drives in this time period, so I was quite nervous when I installed it. However, I have updated to the latest firmware for the SSD and have not (so far) seen any of this behavior.
Dinged 2 stars just because you shouldn't have to worry about total locked drive from the start.
