128GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" PATA IDE Solid State Drive SSD Product Description:
- 128GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" PATA SSD
- Read speed up to 80MB/sec
- Write speed up to 66MB/sec
- Includes enternal case and mounting kit
Product Description
128GB RunCore 1.8" PRO IV PATA SSD. Suitable for Lenovo IBM ThinkPad X40 and X41 and other systems. Read speed up to 80MB/sec and write speed up to 66MB/sec. Includes external case and mounting kit.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great upgrade for the stuttering Thinkpad X41
By zhao
Got this for two Thinkpad X41's that a friend and I bought in 2005 for university. I have since moved on to a Thinkpad X201 Tablet as my main laptop but the X41 was too good a machine to just junk. So I looked into how I may upgrade the hard disk -- the main bottleneck for the X41's sluggishness.SSD was obviously the best option, and after reading poor reviews of the Kingspec drives, I decided on this one. I took the 128GB version as more disk space was always welcome.The package came with the drive, a hard disk case, a plastic block to fill up the casing, a PATA IDE to mini-USB board, USB Y-cable, small screw-driver and screws for the casing. I had only expected a drive so the other items seemed like a great bonus. However, it turned out that the circuit board didn't fit perfectly into the casing with a hard disk attached. So even though the casing was nicely built, I couldn't put a drive in there. Quite a waste!The connector board works perfectly though, so I connected the SSD to it and plugged into the X41. Using EaseUS Todo Backup free edition, I cloned my stock 60GB 4200RPM disk installed with Windows 7 Home premium over. It took just about 1 hour for the cloning, as I had done a fresh install of Windows 7 (upgrade version, from XP) on the old disk.After that, I swapped in the Runcore SSD, and it works perfectly! Even on the aged processor and 1GB RAM on my friend's laptop, it takes just about minute to get into Windows 7. Application start-up is blazingly fast as well.If you have used the X41 with the stock 4200RPM you may literally shed tears of joy and relief at how much the SSD speeds it up.This disk has effectively given the old X41 a new lease of life. If you mainly use the X41 for web browsing, watching online videos and doing some word processing, this SSD is all you need to keep it going for at least a couple of years more. There isn't any laptop as compact and light as the X41 on the market now, I think.PS. Obviously the new disk invoked the 2010 error at the bios start-up, as it is not a Lenovo disk. I flashed the bios with a modded version found online and it seems to have sorted out the problem.
Latest Price: See on Amazon.com!
More Info: See on Amazon.com!
See Customers Review: See on Amazon.com!