Re: How to add an ssd drive?
If you just want to outright replace the existing drive, it super easy, just get a SATA SSD and the drive pops out the left side of the machine with just one screw. If you would like to keep the 500Gig drive and use it for bulk storage as well as a smaller SSD for the system it is only slightly harder. It also requires the removal of 1 screw. Just take out the screw from the plate on the bottom and it will snap out. Then there is a slot next to the RAM that the mSATA drive clicks into. Just make sure that you move the antenna wires out of the way before you put the bottom plate back on and you are done. I recommend using a piece of tape to hold the antenna wires in place. If you find that there is a card in there already, it is probably a mobile Internet card which my guess is that you will probably not be using. Just pull the antenna wires off it and remove it. The T420 can hold a total of 4 hard drive. 1 SATA in the HD slot. 1 mSATA, 1 regular SATA in the DVD drive bay, that requires the purchase of a tray, and 1 SSD in the express card slot. Technically you could count a large SD card as a 5th drive if you really wanted. Pretty good expandability for such a small computer. Brian Cluff On 10/06/2015 05:34 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Brian Cluff last wrote: You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig mSATA SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed of all the apps loading. How difficult is it to add an SSD? I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420 that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15307020 6231552 8307468 43% / udev 10207084 1020704 1% /dev tmpfs 412276 1060411216 1% /run none51200 5120 0% /run/lock none 103068021072 1009608 3% /run/shm /dev/sda6 71559236 26600696 41374540 40% /home Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot. I looked on Amazon and saw these: Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive (TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120 by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers) Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2? I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to install it. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: How to add an ssd drive?
"How difficult is it to add an SSD?" No difference at all to installing to a HDD, in my experience. "Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave the 500-gig unused?" Shouldn't be any issue at all to do that. Do you have a system that can accept two HDDs (or SSDs), and you plan to keep both of them installed/inserted at the same time? Probably the easiest thing to do is remove the HDD and put the SSD into that bay. Get the system installed onto the SSD without the HDD installed. If you need/want to put that HDD back in the system, use the secondary bay and leave your newly installed SSD in the original/primary bay. "Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2?" Burn the ISO to a USB drive; it's the only way to fly. (Many laptops don't even have a CD/DVD drive installed these days.) -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of j...@actionline.com Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 20:35 To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Subject: How to add an ssd drive? Brian Cluff last wrote: > You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself a few > weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. > I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig mSATA > SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that I put /home on, > and that made a huge difference in the speed of all the apps loading. How difficult is it to add an SSD? I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420 that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15307020 6231552 8307468 43% / udev 10207084 1020704 1% /dev tmpfs 412276 1060411216 1% /run none51200 5120 0% /run/lock none 103068021072 1009608 3% /run/shm /dev/sda6 71559236 26600696 41374540 40% /home Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot. I looked on Amazon and saw these: Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive (TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120 by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers) Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2? I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to install it. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: How to add an ssd drive?
Looks like what I want to do for my wife's laptop On Oct 6, 2015 5:41 PM, wrote: > Brian Cluff last wrote: > > You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself > > a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. > > I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig > > mSATA SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that > > I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed > > of all the apps loading. > > How difficult is it to add an SSD? > > I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420 > that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 15307020 6231552 8307468 43% / > udev 10207084 1020704 1% /dev > tmpfs 412276 1060411216 1% /run > none51200 5120 0% /run/lock > none 103068021072 1009608 3% /run/shm > /dev/sda6 71559236 26600696 41374540 40% /home > > Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install > a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave > the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot. > > I looked on Amazon and saw these: > > Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive > (TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime > > MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA > Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120 > by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers) > > Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2? > > I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size > is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to > install it. > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
How to add an ssd drive?
Brian Cluff last wrote: > You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself > a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box. > I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig > mSATA SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that > I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed > of all the apps loading. How difficult is it to add an SSD? I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420 that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15307020 6231552 8307468 43% / udev 10207084 1020704 1% /dev tmpfs 412276 1060411216 1% /run none51200 5120 0% /run/lock none 103068021072 1009608 3% /run/shm /dev/sda6 71559236 26600696 41374540 40% /home Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot. I looked on Amazon and saw these: Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive (TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120 by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers) Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2? I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to install it. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
