X220 SSD 7mm Mod (Crucial C300)

[BNHabs]

Found where? I really hope Crucial, Intel, OCZ, etc. get behind this 7mm move. Otherwise...

Here

The pictures of it show no spacer..? Whats the deal?

[Thors.Hammer]

Here

The pictures of it show no spacer..? Whats the deal?

Fortunately, I think you are wrong and the newegg pic is one of the better pictures that demonstrates this. Look closely at the third picture from newegg. The pic of the drive flipped over bottom up. See the black plastic layer? Notice the sata connector and lid? See how they'll line up nicely with the plastic layer removed?

The only issue doing it is the short screws needed. I found a spare set in my bag of screws when I converted a X-25M drive but I don't have any more.

I'm hopeful the drive makers will ship cases with an extra set fo short screws to solve the 7mm challenge. Otherwise this is going to be an ongoing cluster...

[BNHabs]

Fortunately, I think you are wrong and the newegg pic is one of the better pictures that demonstrates this. Look closely at the third picture from newegg. The pic of the drive flipped over bottom up. See the black plastic layer? Notice the sata connector and lid? See how they'll line up nicely with the plastic layer removed?

The only issue doing it is the short screws needed. I found a spare set in my bag of screws when I converted a X-25M drive but I don't have any more.

I'm hopeful the drive makers will ship cases with an extra set fo short screws to solve the 7mm challenge. Otherwise this is going to be an ongoing cluster...

Do you know what type of screws the Intel 310 needs (short version)?

Planning on doing that? Also, how do I do the transfer of my HDD to SSD with making sure alignment is fine.

[John Ratsey]

Do you know what type of screws the Intel 310 needs (short version)?

It's most probably M2 x 3mm - the same size as commonly used for fixing down wireless cards - but I can't be 100% sure until Lenovo put one of their products in my hands.

Also, how do I do the transfer of my HDD to SSD with making sure alignment is fine.

Acronis TrueImage 2011 claims to handle the partition alignment when cloning. It seems to work OK for me.

John

[darthhen]

Acronis TrueImage 2011 claims to handle the partition alignment when cloning. It seems to work OK for me.
John

Thanks for the link. But how do you know when it doesn't work?

[erik]

It's most probably M2 x 3mm - the same size as commonly used for fixing down wireless cards - but I can't be 100% sure until Lenovo put one of their products in my hands.

the silver lenovo M2 x 3mm wireless card screws will work on the 320.   M2 x 4mm is the longest that will work without bottoming out.

[John Ratsey]

Thanks for the link. But how do you know when it doesn't work?

Good question. I would assume that one would see some poor benchmark results. If benchmarks can't see any performance hit then what is the likelihood of users seeing any performance problem?

John

[hitman_36]

Hahahahah You made my day!

Hahaha just reading through this thread. Funny

[Syberia]

Good question. I would assume that one would see some poor benchmark results. If benchmarks can't see any performance hit then what is the likelihood of users seeing any performance problem?

John

From what I've read, a misaligned SSD has much higher write amplification, and thus shorter drive life, even if there is no obvious performance hit. I'm pretty sure you can do a quick alignment check with Windows Disk Management and a calculator, but you'll have to google for the specifics as I don't know off the top of my head how you'd do it.

[Bayer]

Which M2x3mm screws did you guys order from Laptopscrews?

M2x3mm