Z210 CMT: The boot drive SSD - considerations?

I am setting up a new (refurb) Z210. I want to replace the boot with an SSD drive. I have all of the HP recovery discs.

In reading some of the posts here, I think the most important factor seems to be not to install an SSD is a more SMALLER than the current hard drive Seagate SATA, which is a unit of 250GB.

It seems that most Z210 SSD install uses an Intel 320 or 520 series-drive.

Are there other things I need to know about installing an SSD as a boot drive for Win7/64-bit on this machine?

Suggestions for specific drive?

I have a pair of 15K cheetahs connected to an LS SAS3041E for storage, so I would only use the SSD for the OS and programs not RAID.

Hi Phil, I also have an Z210 where I installed an SSD of 520 Intel as boot drive which works a treat...

It takes a minimum of 128 GB, if you want to use the HP system recovery discs, see here.

You can always use HP recovery disks and restore a bigger HARD drive, then reduce the volume and make them a backup on an external disk system, then restore your backup to a smaller SSD 120 GB and then finally to increase the volume of the size of the SSD as I here.

Probably the biggest problem for some people is the SSD tool reports on issues related to the AHCI not selected and not to achieve the performance expected, which there are question here and here.

The Intel SSD 520 is a great player, but the 120 GB version is not as fast as the larger versions in this series. The Samsung 840 Pro versions are also designed to be very good, but I liked the longer warranty Intel

A lot of things to read, but these referenced threads should cover most of the bases.

See you soon.

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