New SSD for my Lenovo X220

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

After the conundrum with my Intel 320 SSD I did some googling and decided to invest a fair chunk of money in a really good SSD - the Samsung 840 Pro, 512GB . The 840 Pro seems to be the king of the hill right now and it’s only 7mm thick which is what I need for my X220 (although people have shoved 9mm drives into it with a bit of force).

Never an Intel SSD again

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

When I bought my Lenovo X220 - which I have been extremely pleased with to date - I chose an Intel 320 160Gb SSD disk with it, in retrospect a BAD MISTAKE. No idea why I didn’t find the warnings plastered all over the net at the time, and the problem was even acknowledged by Intel as early as july 2011 . The disk has been working fine since april when I got it, until the last day of 2012…

SSD on Roads Less Taken

New SSD for my Lenovo X220

Never an Intel SSD again