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Will this DIMM work with the 2510p and is this a good price?

4GB DDR2 1066mhz Sodimm (1x 4GB) - Dino PC Ltd

Just got a used 2510p. Flashed SLIC 2.1 Bios with whitelist removed and installed Win7 x64. Its all working fine but the Toshiba MK6028GAL HD is a bit of a drag.. I have managed to get a cheap 80GB Samsung 5400RPM drive but want a SSD, just can't affort it at the moment.

Andy

Congratulations on your purchase. 2510P = a great bang-per-buck runaround with excellent usability.

1066Mhz DDR2 RAM is hard to find which makes me think they have mistakenly advertised desktop DDR2 RAM, especially at that very low price. The rest of the specs are right "DDR2, SODIMM, 4GB".

Cheapest way to get the correct 4GB SODIMM for the 2510P would otherwise be as a US-import for 39 pounds delivered: ebay 4GB SODIMM DDR2

A 60GB Renice K3VLAR-E ZIF SSD goes for $117.60 pounds (inc VAT) From Futurestorage-UK. A 2.5" sata SSD based on a Indilinx, SF1200 or Intel controller via an optical bay caddy will cost less.

[Evilandi666]

hi nando, I ordered a mx-nano today just for playing a bit around .. but I think I lost this blue rubber frame .. do I need it or is it fine without it?

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hi nando, I ordered a mx-nano today just for playing a bit around .. but I think I lost this blue rubber frame .. do I need it or is it fine without it?

Congratulations on the mx-nano. Another low-power, high performance EWS720-based ZIF SSD.

The SSD doesn't need the blue rubber frame since it's more hardy to bumps than a mechnical HDD. I had mine running a few times without it using just the plate to secure the drive in place as shown below. It was OK, but admittedly I didn't jiggle the system around. It does look like the drive could do with a few mm of padding just to firmly pin it in place. Or perhaps the plastic HDD cover does a good enough job to hold it down?

[Evilandi666]

Congratulations on the mx-nano. Another low-power, high performance EWS720-based ZIF SSD.

The SSD doesn't need the blue rubber frame since it's more hardy to bumps than a mechnical HDD. I had mine running a few times without it using just the plate to secure the drive in place as shown below. It was OK, but admittedly I didn't jiggle the system around. It does look like the drive could do with a few mm of padding just to firmly pin it in place. Or perhaps the plastic HDD cover does a good enough job to hold it down?

Thx for your help, I saw the picture but I didn't know if you really used it or if it was just for the picture.

I also found some "reports" that MX-Nano can do trim on windows 7 (but I think they are wrong, since it is nowhere else mentioned). On your SSD list all EWS720-based SSDs are listed as no trim. I will check if it does trim under Linux as soon as it arrives here

My Vertex 2 has died after a shutdown (don't know if it was because of the china-caddy)- wasn't recognized anymore -> it was replaced by OCZ. Now I can tell that even a new 25nm Vertex 2 with newest FW(1.33) is incompatible with the NewModeUS caddy under linux with kernel > 2.6.32. But it works very nice with a 2.5 hdd.

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I also found some "reports" that MX-Nano can do trim on windows 7 (but I think they are wrong, since it is nowhere else mentioned). On your SSD list all EWS720-based SSDs are listed as no trim. I will check if it does trim under Linux as soon as it arrives here

Unfortunately the Eastwho EWS720 controller cannot process TRIM commands, so any SSDs using it do not have TRIM support. Those reports on the MX-Nano are incorrect. Not really a problem. Just let GC clean the SSD. Can help it along by scheduling a task to scrub free space by writing 0xFF to free space.

With your MX-Nano you'll lose a bit of speed over your Vertex2, not noticable unless you do a lot of sequential writes AND/or heavy multitasking, but will increase your battery life and will now have the optical drive bay free for an optical drive or caddy + 2.5" HDD.

[Evilandi666]

And hopefully no problems with compatibility etc. anymore

Nando, du you know any good(=cheap) source for the dvd drive for 2510p?

(Should be Panasonic / Mata UJ-842 if I remember right)

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Nando, du you know any good source for the dvd drive for 2510p?

(Should be Panasonic / Mata UJ-842 if I remember right)

There's a couple of NC2400/2510P units on ebay. Starting from 22 euro delivered to Germany. The original HP optical drive will be firmware set to run as slave.

[Evilandi666]

Ah you searched for Multibay I did always use "UJ-842"

thx.. maybe I buy one.

The original HP optical drive will be firmware set to run as slave.

Is this somehow bad? Or do you just mean that I have to get a original hp one? I am not sure what you want to tell me

[Evilandi666]

Picture Time:



The ZIF Cable is not slanting - light just makes it look like.

You see the zif cable is turned around. Like it is described here.(thx to withanee67 for this info, i was really confused with the info that pin one has to be on the other side than normal. First I really thought: ...mhh...How should that work? )

As you see I don't have that blue rubber thing anymore, two pieces from the package faom replaced it very well.

Funny thing: mx-nano is packaged same style(other design for sure) as OCZ Vertex 2 and has same style of warranty/serial stickers. Is it manufactured by OCZ?

Just one last question: Did i insert it right? Is it normal that the metal thing presses the ssd/hdd against the foam below the ssd/hdd?
(and nando don't forget to tell me what you meant with "hp optical drive will be set to slave" )

Thx 4 all your help!

Edit: Changed the Picture, forgot to pixelate barcode

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Just one last question: Did i insert it right? Is it normal that the metal thing presses the ssd/hdd against the foam below the ssd/hdd?
(and nando don't forget to tell me what you meant with "hp optical drive will be set to slave" )

Creative use of the mx-nano packaging there. I have however never had to flip the drive upside down before. As long as the foam pins it down to prevent movement AND the drive is registered and works then it's OK.

My comment RE: HP NC2400/2510P optical drive. Those HP factory optical drives will be firmware set to run as slave. Any other third party 9.5mm PATA optical drive may deviate by defaulting to master and/or using the CSEL pin to set master/slave mode. So to work concurrently with the mx-nano you want the optical drive to default to slave. No fuss solution is to get the NC2400 or 2510P optical drive.