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Do you happen to know if using an SSD drive is it the same?
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Do you happen to know if using an SSD drive is it the same?

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Be careful if you are considering using an SSD drive - those with JMicron controllers (pretty much everyone except Intel's X-25 and OCZ's Vertex models) have a known problem with write delays, which can make them run very slow when they need to erase old data to make room for new. &nbsp;I have one made by Patriot and it suffers badly from this problem.<br />
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<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/Intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8" rel="ugc">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/Intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-jmicron-jmf602,7057.html" rel="ugc">http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-jmicron-jmf602,7057.html</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMicron" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMicron</a><br />

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Be careful if you are considering using an SSD drive - those with JMicron controllers (pretty much everyone except Intel's X-25 and OCZ's Vertex models) have a known problem with write delays, which can make them run very slow when they need to erase old data to make room for new.  I have one made by Patriot and it suffers badly from this problem.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/Intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8 [http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/Intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=8]
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-jmicron-jmf602,7057.html [http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-jmicron-jmf602,7057.html]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMicron [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMicron]


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They can actually use both, there is an adapter that allows a 1.8&quot; &nbsp;ssd to be used. &nbsp;Thanks.
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They can actually use both, there is an adapter that allows a 1.8"  ssd to be used.  Thanks.

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What size sata drive does the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 use: &nbsp;2.5&quot; or 1.8&quot;?
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What size sata drive does the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 use:  2.5" or 1.8"?

What size sata drive does the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 use:  2.5&quot; or 1.8&quot;?

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What size sata drive does the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 use: 2.5&quot; or 1.8&quot;?

What size sata drive does the Lenovo Thinkpad W700 use: 2.5" or 1.8"?