Hello, I have a 7mm high Samsung 840 PRO installed inside my W510. I used the 9.5mm drive caddy and rails and have not noticed any problems in doing so.
I suppose if you wanted to you could make a spacer out of plastic, card stock or similar material. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 2/22/2013, you wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:46:21 -0500 From: Robert Terzi <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] T530 SSD Upgrade, 7mm rails, 2.5mm spacer, or 9.5mm SSD? To: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I have a T530 that I'd like to upgrade with an SSD. It came with a 9.5mm Western Digital HDD so it has 9.5mm rails. My preference for SSD is the Samsung 840 Pro, which is 7mm tall. The first T530 that I upgraded came with 7mm rails as the HDD it came with was a Seagate "thin" drive. (The capacity of both stock HDDs is 320 GB). So my choices are 1) Find a source for 7mm Thinkpad rails for the T530 2) Find a 2.5mm spacer to use the existing rails 3) Go with a different SSD that is 9.5mm high like the Crucial M4. I'd prefer to go with the Samsung 840 Pro for speed but in practice the difference between the drives might not matter that much. Anyone know a reasonably priced source for 7mm rubber rails? Alternatively, a source for 2.5mm spacers for 2.5 in drives? (The Samsung 840, not pro, is a different drive, that is available in an upgrade kit package that includes a spacer. Unfortunately the pro version isn't available with that kit. The non-pro drive uses a new type of flash, TLC, which is probably fine but is still relatively new. I'd prefer that others do more field testing on that first.) I'd appreciate any advice / sources. Thanks, --Rob
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