Important Update 5/13/2011: .../nasty-problem-with-ocz-vertex-3-ssd-on-lenovo-w520-solved/
Let me get the fireworks out of the way first so you don’t need to wait for the numbers
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OCZ Technology 240 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-240G: Electronics
For those that don’t know what these numbers represent, let me tell you, this is a screamer! The W520 actually supports the SATA III interface spec which goes up 600MB. I was wondering if it would actually work and I have to say, if it’s showing Sequential reads of 472.2 MB/second, it must be working. The drive holds 240Gig and currently costs about $600.
In contrast, the drive I had before in my Lenovo W520 was no slouch. It was a 256Gig Patriot Torqx M28. The numbers are below run from the same Lenovo W520 computer.
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Patriot Memory 256 GB 2.5-Inch Torqx Solid-State Drive PTX256GS25SSDR: Electronics
Just by way of comparison to a rotating disk, my configuration in the Lenovo W520 is I put my boot drive (the SSD) in the slot normally used by the DVD and I put my data disk (mydoc’s, etc.) where the normal built in disk goes. I’ve got a 750GB Hitachi drive that simply rotates platters around (but costs less than $100). The numbers are not quite as impressive.
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Seagate Momentus 7200 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal NB Hard Drive ST9500420AS-Bare Drive: Electronics
And for those of you that like graphs, here is the Sequential Read Speed by Drive
And a computer very similar to mine:
Thinkpad W520 15.6 Fhd, Led: Computer & Accessories
I’m hooked, hope are also now. Hard to go back to read and write speeds of .5 MB/second.