SSD Partitioning OP/Trim recommendations

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Wed Dec 18 20:44:30 UTC 2013


On Dec 18, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> 
> My Lenovo x120e supposedly has the sata3 chipset, but only sata2 enabled.  According to a few forums that I found when looking for what type of drive to buy for this laptop.  Some think the sata2 option is to upsell the x220.

For SSD you'll almost certainly want SATA rev 3.0 enabled. The bandwidth is 300MBs vs 600MB/s. By running SATA rev. 2 you're bandwidth limiting your hardware.


Chris Murphy


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