W520 + SSD

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• Enigma W520 SSD

  I'm debating my W520 SSD options.

  1 Newegg has 512 GB Crucial M4 for $399.

  2. the 830 Samsung is the other option I am considering, but it is much more expensive.

  3. Finally, there is the Mushkin 240 GB mSATA for $359. Aside from the price and size, I hesitate to take this option due to limitations in mSATA and the W520 SATA II.

  I welcome the recommendations.

  I have discussed using mSATA so in order to keep my stock drive.

  However, I have over half a terabyte of storage on my laptop that I use external backup drives.  So I just bought the M4 512 GB Crucial, it's the same price to the Canada. If you buy it, people of the Crucial forum recommend immediately updating the firmware, I did it using a CD bootable created with the downloaded firmware software.

  Currently using Macrium reflect Free v5 to clone my stock Seagate 512 GB drive.  Also of the options Reflect imaging software to resize partitions of target as specifying alignment. Crucial 512 GB fits perfectly into the caddy drive in contrast to young readers of M4.

  I'll post in car numbers of performance shortly.

  see you soon

• ThinkPad W520 - BIOS does not see mSATA SSD Samsung 850 EVO

  I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB - my W520 mSATA SSD does not see.

  This unit is compatible with the socket inside the W520 mSATA?

  And if not I can buy a controller mSATA?

  Thank you

  Everything works now - the reader was not sitting correctly

• M500 Crucial would work as primary disk in my W520 or am I forced to use Lenovo SSD?

  Just wondering if the

  Crucial M500 240GB SATA 2.5 inch 7mm internal Solid State Drive CT240M500SSD1

  my Thinkpad W520 work? I want to spend the current HD 500 GB Ultra Bay and use the SSD as drive.

  I searched and read many horror stories how anything but Lenovo SSD will not work or there are problems.

  I also searched and read where the M500 Cruical works indeed.

  Seems to be more complaints than not.

  So what, what to do? All advice is appreciated.

  I want to order a SSD by Sunday evening.

  Good afternoon and welcome to the community.

  You shouldn't have any problems setting up computer you the way you describe. My X 220 (generation of your W) is configured with an mSATA SSD Crucial m4 under the keyboard and a Samsung SSD of 840Pro in the main Bay. I had zero problems. A moderator colleague runs a T420 has also equipped the mSATA SSD Crucial m4, but kept the flat disc in the main Bay, I think.

  See you soon.

• W520 - upgrade RAID HDD SSD

  Hi all

  I have a W520 who has Dual RAID hard drives (via Bay adapter), HDD 500 GB, 7200 RPM configured by lenovo when I bought the machine. I was curious if it is possible to upgrade to an SSD HARD drive? If so is there something that needs to be disconfigured for it? In addition, the SSD can be used similar to a RAID?

  Any help on this is greatly appreciated that the machine is quite slow with the HARD drive.

  Thank you!

  My original plan when I bought my W520 was to get a pre-configured with RAID and then buy an msata and settle the system. I couldn't find a raid system for a reasonable price where I lived well...

  But this might be something for you perhaps? You can install an OS/system for msata ssd and keep the hard drives in raid for quick storage. MSATA is SATAII, but where the reader to other bays are on the W520 SATAIII. Yet, I used my msata for OS/system for a while, can't say he felt somehow more slowly.

  Not really answering your question, I know. But maybe something that might speed things up. I have no experience with ssd's in raid. A lot of articles on this topic, if you look around, however.

  / Free software

• My thinkpad W520 and my ssd (Crucial M4 128)

  Hello people. I read the thread entitled W520 and various issues of ssd. In fact, it was a relief for me to read after all the trouble I had try my M4 running successfully in my W520.

  When I first installed the M4, it wouldn't let me install windows. I tried many things and almost come to the conclusion that the drive itself is bad because he called me all kinds of problems. That opinion changed when I tried my M4 in other machines. It all worked perfectly. Then, I thought: * beep *? Would it be the laptop? When I came across the wire, that I mentioned above, I knew I wasn't alone and knew that it was actually a compatibility issue.

  However, I was reading comments the other day on the W520, and many critics included ssd in their tests and reported good results. There was no mention of any problem of ssd. I also noticed in many forums that some users take advantage of their W520 strengthened by the performance of the ssd.

  So, it's like a situation of chance/unlcuky? Some w520 will work with ssd and some won't be fair?

  There is only one thing that I haven't tried yet. Try the M4 in the my W520 with its latest firmware update (0009)... better suddenly you think?

  And where is all this lenovo?

  Thank you.

  Just for you guys do know. He has WORKED with the latest firmware.

  Now, I write my W520 with the Crucial installed M4.

  Thanks for everyone.

• W520 and Intel SSD 520 external casing replacement?

  I decided to upgrade my W520 the Intel SSD 320 to 520 SSD Intel.  I tried the 520 in an enclosed and theW520 does not recognize the drive.  I am trying to determine if the problem is the controller in the external case Thermaltake BlacX or was it simply the problem of having the drive in an external enclosure? (In other words, it would work in a different case).  I got an OCZ Vertex 3 that would work not in external enclosures, so I'm inclined to think this is the Forum as being both the Vertex 3 and Intel 520 uses SandForce controllers.

  Suport of Lenovo, I called and they told me that the only way I can copy the disc's to buy their Ultrabay III of A 0, 65623 adapter and copy the disks inside the machine.  I use older software of Casper and I don't think he would have Renesas USB 3 drivers, if I boot from a CD and trying to copy my old hard drive backup.

  Obviously people do that.  And, if the Ultrabay III adapters are not available at this time, they must do without them.

  How can I copy my data from the old drive to the new drive?

  Thank you!

  
  

• installation of windows 7 on ssd error W520 intel 510 120 GB

  Hi all I need you help.

  I wantest install windows 7 on my newly purchased ssd, but I always get following msg of error on the screen to install windows custum:

  I have to translate it from German into English:

  Windows cannot be installed to this disk. (...) PLS, make sure that the drive controller is enabled in the bios.

  Please help me

  (I get the error as if I try to switch to the compatibility option stata (no ahci))

  THX

  Best regards

  I solved the problem, Yes.

  This is the uefi mode that caused problems.

• A few questions on the SSD for my W520

  (1) an mSATA reader, can serve as a boot media? I guess that it will reveal in the BIOS boot configuration?

  (2) I've seen conflicting information on this: is the first Bay SATA II or SATA III?

  Hello

  (1) Yes, mSATA can be used as boot drive in the W520, in this laptop the mSATA is located under the keyboard (on the T series is at the bottom of the machine next to the second RAM slot).

  (2) the main Bay on W520 is certainly SATA III and the mSATA on this system is also still certain to be SATA II. I hope this helps.

• Life expectancy of a 'new' refurbished Lenovo W520

  Hi all!

  I recently bought a refurbished Lenovo W520, with a brand new SSD and the new ram as well. The model goes back to 2011 and it looks actually pretty new in this is the general appearance.

  These are purchased by companies whose users, I guess, probably used less intensely and probably with more care than the average user.

  My question is; How long should I wait for this machine to work? He's already got what I assume to be nearly half a decade on his back, and even if some essential (SSD and Ram) parts are brand new, I am always worried about the longevity of the rest of its internal components.

  Thanks in advance!

  -Philip

  I only really worry the cooling problems. It always speaks by making a much traveled W520. According to the number of hours of use, the laptop has had and the conditions, it has been preserved in, thermal paste could be replaced on the GPU/CPU and the fans/vents might need suddenly out with compressed air to remove any buildup. It's all a work of $6 to do yourself (materials: thermal paste and compressed air, remove the keyboard and the keyboard setting, remove the pipes on GPU/CPU.)

  I guess that you have received a new battery (obviously these age and there is no way the original spec is more) and the LCD shows no problem (Panel light darkens over time but always mine high with only a little pink cast near the corners - although to be fair, mine had a life shaken and fallen several times on hard surfaces of some long-distance).

  In the past, on other thinkpads, only other points of failure were the bearings in cooling fan requiring a replacement fan assembly failure and graphics (sometimes of the cable charts overwork through the hinge.) I have one of these problems with the W520 still. The hinge is better designed than many previous thinkpads and the cooling is less active which will span the life of any pads of the fan. It is with the 2000M GPU (1000M models have other issues because both had different designs cooling.)

  Currently I have an SSD mSATA Plextor (Win 7 Pro OS - put to test at SATA2 speeds) in slot mSATA near trackpad and a SSD Pro of Samsung 850 in the hard drive Bay (win 10 Pro OS - tested SATA3 sppeds.) The system works well. For awhile, I thought win 10 was never going to work right and I need to replace the W520 immediately but finally Nvidia fixed their optimus drivers and the laptop is really eye-catching win 10. (Technically the W520 is not listed by Lenovo, a sustained Win 10 portable if Microsoft said that he would retire.)

• SSD in location WWAN

  I opened my computer to clean the fan and noticed that the WWAN slot (correct me if I'm wrong) was empty. Since I did not need support WAN I was wondering if I could install an SSD there. I've heard say that some double slots as mSATA slots WWAN. What is the case for the W520? This card would work?

  http://www.Amazon.com/crucial-256GB-mSATA-internal-CT256M4SSD3/DP/B0085J17UA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&QID=...

  The short and long answer is Yes.

  I have the same machine and have installed a 128 GB Plextor PX-128M5M for use as a very large cache via expresscacche.

  Ted

• W520 ejection (or try) UltraBay III HDD on the wake from Hibernation

  Hello

  I have a w520, with a 128 SSD in the main location with the original HDD 500 into the UltraBay slot. On the wake of hibernation, the system tries to eject the disc.

  I tried a few solutions:

  1 Windows 7 reconstruction from scratch

  2. the format of the HARD drive

  3 disable write cache

  4. install Intel RST

  The reconstruction worked until I did a pilot how up-to-date the redone problem surface.

  Help would be great, thank you all!

  Solution! I found a post by ThorsHammer who raised the same question:

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/W-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-trying-to-eject-UltraBay-when-sleeping/m-...

  1. I've updated the RST drivers with those found here:

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS014898

  2. not updating a complete system

  3. then uninstalled, uninstalled empasize you want the Intel RST driver utility (the one I got from the Intel site) and now it works!

  Just a big head up well that, unless there was an update over the last 2 weeks, I had this problem until I went mucking with the RST drivers; which means an installation of Windows 7 directly with all future updates through the Lenovo Updater still had the problem.

  I hope this helps other people!

• W530 - choose what size SSD upgrade strategy?

  I still hesitate between two strategies of size SSD upgrade for my brand new W530.

  1. an (internal) SSD + a HARD drive (internal)

  • Put the original of the ultrabay DVD burner in an external enclosure (connected to the laptop with a USB cable SATA) and use when necessary
  • Put the original Toshiba HDD 500 GB of the main Bay in a shopping cart, then in housing as a backup drive-ultrabay
  • Buy a Crucial SSD m4 (512GB) for the main Bay and use it to drive to OS/programs and road data

  2. two SSDs (internal) + a HARD drive (external)

  • Put the original of the ultrabay DVD burner in an external enclosure (connected to the laptop with a USB cable SATA) and use when necessary
  • Put the original Toshiba HDD 500 GB in an external case (connected to the laptop with a USB cable SATA) and use it as a backup drive
  • Buy 2 m4 Crucial SSD (128 + 256 GB):

  -one in the main Bay as player of OS/programs (128 GB)

  -one in a basket, then in housing ultrabay as data drive (256 GB)

  I also want to let you know that a 512 GB SSD is a little more expensive than a 128 GB SSD + a 256 GB SSD. Also, I like to choose the best strategy of resistance, reliability and durabilty.

  Could you share with me the benefits & disadvantages for both strategies and tell me which is the best strategy for your point of view?

  Thanks for your help,

  Bertrand

  @p1

  I agree with the approach of @eos. I have configured my W520 on the same track. I have an mSATA SSD 256GB (a - Data), with a 750 GB HARD drive in the Bay of primary and a 500GB HDD in the Ultrabay slot.

  The mSATA SSD is my boot device, even if I sometimes start from one of the other disks when testing new configurations.

  The mSATA slot is SATA 2 don't bother me a bit. It's very fast. Sometimes, I put an mSATA SSD in an mSATA to the 2.5 enclosure and run in the Ultrabay SATA 3-speed housing. I'm hard pressed to notice the difference.

  You're better off using a partition of HARD drive for data for various reasons. On the one hand, at least write cycles committed SSDS, longer it will last. Second, if your system partition is lost, your data is still intact. Third, you can save a small partition of data rather than a larger combo partion.

  I love having the flexibility of two open bays using the mSATA offer slot - i.e. I sometimes swap in my optical drive in the Ultrabay slot, etc.

• mSata SSD on Lenovo W510 on mPCIe using the WWAN slot

  I would like to know if possible my W510 is compatible with mSATA SSD on mPCIe slot.

  I would like to install this mSATA Crucial 256 GB Internal Solid State Drive on my W510 m4 and load Win7 64 bit Pro as main boot drive.

  Please notify. Thanks in advance.

  does the W510 is not compatible with the reader mSATA, mSATA support is W520 go.

• W520 making dual-boot

  Good day (I guess)

  I have the following problem with my image of the current system. If anyone can give me an idea, I kudo you 100 times (at least in my mind):

  If I stop docked, I can not moored to cold start - no problem. If I stop undocked, I can not undocked from cold start - no problem.

  If I stop docked and undocked cold start or the other way around, I have to restart for the upcoming system fully functional. Transient starting, I always get on the Windows 7 Desktop, but then don't be loading not some programs, the wireless card will not connect and other weird symptoms.

  What can I do to find this issue? There is nothing unusual in Windows logs.

  W520, ADATA mSATA SSD - but the symptoms exist also with the help of a HARD drive. However, the symptoms do not exist when I boot from an original image.

  Oh, one last thing: when I try to make a stop of the transition system started, it doesn't. I have to make a hard stop.

  BIOS 1.38

  Now before you say that it is a driver problem, consider how to determine that.

  I tracked down the problem. It must be coming out of my printer Brother HL-2140 (USB 2) plugged into the dock. If I unplug it, the question of dual boot disappears. I have not yet tried updating the driver, but that is next on the list.

  Weird!

  I started unplugging everything, restart, Plug one thing, then another, sheesh!

  I've yet to find a theory as to how this problem starting cold.