*HP 2510p Owners Lounge*

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Have you guys seen this? Available today at SuperBiiz for less the $100 with free shipping. A bit slow and 32MB max. No idea what the controller is. They also have 1.8 drives up to 64MB.

http://www.supertalent.com/products/....3%20IDE%20ZIF

Specifications
o Mfr Part Number: FEM32GF13M
o Features:
+ MLC NAND Flash
+ 80 MB/sec sequential read and 40 MB/sec sequential write speeds
+ Standard IDE / Parallel ATA interface
+ ECC, bad bit management and wear leveling built into the controller
o Capacity: 32 GB
o Interface: 40-pin IDE ZIF
o NAND Flash: MLC
o Modes: PIO modes 0~4
o OS Support: All
o Current: Active Mode - 55 mA(max); Sleep/Idle Mode - 0.18 mA(max)
o Shock(operating): 10G, 3 axis
o Vibration(operating): 1G, each axis
o Storage Temperature: -55°C to +80°C
o Performance:
+ Sequential Read Rate: 80 MB/s (max)
+ Sequential Write Rate: 40 MB/s (max)
+ Access Time: 0.1 ms
+ Track to Track Seek: 0.1 ms
+ Bus Tx Speed: 16.7 MB/sec (peak time)
o Endurance
* MTBF: +1,000,000 hours
* Data Reliability: Built-in EDC/ECC function
* Data Integrity: 10 years
* Wear Leveling: Patent Pending
* Write/Erase: 10,000 cycles
* Read: Unlimited

# Power Supply: 5V ±10%
# Dimensions: 2.13 x 1.26 inch / 54.1 x 32.1 mm
# with Super Talent’s 2 year warranty

[User Retired 2]

Have you guys seen this? Available today at SuperBiiz for less the $100 with free shipping. A bit slow and 32MB max. No idea what the controller is. They also have 1.8 drives up to 64MB.

Thanks for the heads up. As a comparison, the Dell Mini pci-e pata Supertalent SSD here, is rated at same 80/40 is benchmarked. The correct product product for the 2510P would be $94US-(free shipping) New! Super Talent 32GB MLC 1.3 inch IDE ZIF Solid State Drive for Acer Aspire One. It's datasheet shows 0.18/0.55mA standby/active power consumption, which at 3.3V works out to be 0.0/0.18W. Ie: VERY low battery-life extending power consumption as shown to give very long battery life in the MSI U115 netbook.

UPDATE: This SSD has as input 5V, so no good for the 2510P since it uses 3.3V unless there are onboard voltage regulators doing 5V to 3.3V downstepping. Could be the case since 3.3V is more likely to run the onboard ICs.

[santzia]

I get between 11 and 12 hours on it 4 days a week and that's actual run time, not what the meter says. That's with brightness set at 4 notches from dimmest, bluetooth and wwan off and wireless on. I also use a wired usb mouse because the wireless usb mice use a little bit more power.

Although if my class that day dictates I run some VM's my battery life is severely impacted.

First of all Wow. I have an 2510p with a 3, 6 and 9cell battery
And I get 2, 3 and 5 hours out of my batteries.
And thats with wlan and bluetooth disabled in bios, (I do have an enabled wwan card though) screen brightness set all the way down.
I have the 4200rpm 1.8" untill I can afford an ssd (after my vacation in 2 weeks)

I the 3cell battery is about 1 year old but the 6 and the 9 cell are brand new. (about 10-20 charges each)

And I´m running windows 7 Rc1 (build 7100) right now.
Clean install only otherthing installed is utorrent and avira Anti virus.

I feel like I should be getting more out of my batteries.

Could you or anyone give me any tips as to what I´m missing?

Has anyone been able to upgrade the hp s2300 wwan to 7.2mbits?

/ Santzia

[pocket_geek]

Go back to XP or Vista. The drivers for Windows 7 aren't optimized for battery life yet.

The WWAN card uses about 2 watts of power in my experience, serious power drain.

If you have Microsoft Office installed disable the groove monitor, that seems to suck up alot of power also.

Running Vista Business SP2 x64 with a 9-cell battery and the WWAN turned on I get about 8 - 9 hours of battery life, the WWAN is incredibly inefficient for some reason. Odd thing is if I have my cell phone paired up via bluetooth for net access (with the WWAN card turned off) the bluetooth connection uses almost 2 watts... So it seems no power efficient way to get 3G internet.. oh well.

[santzia]

Go back to XP or Vista. The drivers for Windows 7 aren't optimized for battery life yet.

The WWAN card uses about 2 watts of power in my experience, serious power drain.

If you have Microsoft Office installed disable the groove monitor, that seems to suck up alot of power also.

Running Vista Business SP2 x64 with a 9-cell battery and the WWAN turned on I get about 8 - 9 hours of battery life, the WWAN is incredibly inefficient for some reason. Odd thing is if I have my cell phone paired up via bluetooth for net access (with the WWAN card turned off) the bluetooth connection uses almost 2 watts... So it seems no power efficient way to get 3G internet.. oh well.

Thank you for the answer. Hmm I didn´t think the wwan would be that power hungry. I know that the bluetooth eats a lot of power. Do you know if the wlan is as power hungry as bluetooth and wwan? I´m going to try and use my cellphones wifi broadband and try to get online that way and see it it uses less power.
Or I guess I could go back and start using my Usb WWAN card.
But the hole point in me upgrading from the nc2400 to the 2510p was the internal wwan card... Ohh well I have some testing to do.

Thank you again for your quick answer..

/ Santzia

ps. Sorry for going off topic so much.

[pocket_geek]

WLAN seems to be very power efficient, sometimes I can't tell a difference if it's on or off.

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Trying to decide if I should pick-up an OCZ Vertex 60GB. It has the Indilinx controller and decent firmware support from OCZ. The drive consumes 2W during operation and 0.5W in sleep mode. I'll be using a PATA to SATA caddy. I just with I had the caddy already so I could test an Indilinx drive before buying from from an online vendor. The deal is pretty good at ~$170.

[PhreakShow]

But if you buy a SSD, why not buy a 1.8" ZIF one for the original disk slot?

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Price/Performance. Gmonster V3 or Mtron 32GB = ~$230-270. Cheaper drives have Jmicron controllers. 60GB Vertex in DVD caddy < $200. The only downside I see so far is the higher power consumption. What that means in real work battery life I need to see.

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I got my ebay caddy today from notebookelite and it doesn't fit. I was having trouble sliding it in so I took a look at the connectors and saw that the PATA connector is completely different from the one used on the 2510p. You can actually see the wrong connector and position of it (computer side) in the ebay pictures.



Here is the caddy I ordered: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=220442636054

If I recall correctly I used the link that NANDO4 provided on your caddy guide. Please update that link since it is incorrect.

Description:

The HP 2nd Hard Disk Drive Adapter for UltraBay Slim gives you maximum storage flexibility enabling you to add a second HP notebook hard disk drive to any UltraBay Slim modular bay. With the second HDD in your UltraBay Slim, you have the fastest way to back-up key applications and critical data.

This device accept 2.5"/9.5mm SATAHDD.

Laptop Accessory Type :Replacement Part(non OEM) Third-party factory produce

compatible:

Hp

NC2400 NC4200 NC4400 NC6220 NC6230 NC6320 NC8230

NW8240 NX6310 NX6325 NX7400 NX7300 TC4400

HP advanced dock

HP USB external multibay II case

Key Features:


Plug & Play, Supports hot swapping
Fast & Reliable connection in HP laptop, just as the primary HDD
Fully integrated into HP laptop, no cables/PSU/software driver needed ,The gross weight is 400g.
Dual boot, Support installation of 2nd operating system on the 2nd HDD and boot selection

Includingisk Drive and Screws
note:hard drive not included

Add this caddy to your HP notebook to give you another hard drive. Simply remove your CD-ROM drive and put the Caddy (with the added hard drive) in it's place... This is a good working adapter and is Guaranteed. This is not orginal product,but it has 100% original/genuine quality.

I'm not sure if I ordered the wrong part or if it just isn't the right fit for the 2510p. The front bezel is not angled on the right side so that would have had to be cut down if the connector were ok. There is also a metal strip inside which is blocking the fit into the bay.

Any suggestions what to do? I don't know if there is a correct caddy from notebookelite that I can swap this one out for or if I should take it as a loss...