SSD strikes again! Impressive performance in the T60!

Intel SSD 330 (180 GB) was received in the mail last week and added to Aishah's 'square' laptop - Lenovo ThinkPad T60.

The laptop has had a lot of upgrades over the years, including:

1. RAM to 3 GB (from 2 GB)
2. HDD to 200 GB 7200 rpm (from 60 GB 5400 rpm)
3. Screen to 1600x1200 (from 1024x768)
4. CPU to T7600 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo (from T2400 1.83 GHz Core Duo)

Now, the HDD will be upgraded to 180 GB SSD.  The laptop is quite old (sporting SATA 1.0 @ 150 MB/s Max) - so the full potential of the SSD (SATA 3.0) will not be seen here.

As you can see, the new hard drive is pretty much hitting the limit of the SATA 1.0 at ~ 120 MB/s.  For everyday usage, Random Seek + RW is what you really want to look at - and this drive is around 40x faster than the old drive!

Hopefully it will give the laptop a couple more years - since Aishah is still very much in love with her 'square' laptop.  :)

Last upgrade link: http://beepboy.blogspot.com/2011/01/ibmlenovo-thinkpad-t60-laptop-upgrade.html