Hi all,

I had the idea to check out how much speedup my old but working XSP 1330 can get. I thought in the meantime SSD technology is matured and cheap enough to give it a try.

The first attempt was a recent Sandisk with a SandDisk own controller. A little slower than other device but very very few power consumption. A perfect fit for an notebook I thought.

In fact it was less than perfect, because the drive it wasn't recognized in the BIOS (the drive is o.k., the BIOS is A15)  :(

O.k. I googled for a compatible SSD and found  the Crucial V4 (really V4 and not M4). It was advertized as not as fast as an M4 but was SATA 2 and guaranteed to be compatible.

It was said to be a little slower on small writes (only 4000/sec with 4KB) but so what it was compatible. And yes it worked .... somehow. It was slow, but my fault, I changed the file system from ext3 to ext4 (Linux box) and discard and noatime in the fstab, now it was even a little faster than advertised.  Then I freshly installed the OS (Ubuntu 12/04). What takes a a little over an hour with the hard disk took more than 6 hours (I went to bed so I don't know how long it took exactly). Upgrading from 12/04 to 12/04/01 took more than 4 hours instead of half an our or so. The moral is: lot of small writes (e.g. extracting Linux header files) takes ages, it makes the device unusabl. No reaction so far from Crucial.

Now my question: can anyone recommend an SSD which runs in an M1330 and still can be bought in new condition? Thanks a lot in advance.

ciao
Frank