Intel X25-M G2 Solid State Drives

DrBombcrater said:
Snap! I'm doing the same with the 40GB Kingston drive I have coming tomorrow, it's destined to be the boot drive on my Studio 17 with a 500GB 5400rpm drive in the second bay.

BTW, I hope you know that you need to buy a special Dell caddy and SATA plug to fit a drive in the Studio 17's second drive bay? Dell don't include the caddy unless you actually order the laptop with two drives installed.
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No I didn't know that :eek: Do you know where I can buy one from? Thanks
 
They're a right pain to get hold of. Dell UK won't even admit the part exists never mind sell you one. I've ordered one from an EBay seller in the US who charges about £25 inc delivery. There are a few listed from UK sellers but they all seem to want about £50. There's no way I'd pay that for a bit of aluminium and a plastic plug that Dell US charges $10 for!
 
glen8 said:
oops, sorry Matthew,

I haven't made myself clear. I've already decided on the 80gb but didn't know which version C0, C1, R5 :confused: I'd need for installing in a dell studio 17 laptop.
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I'd suggest C1 - I'm pretty sure as it will be replacing a 2.5 HDD, that the space will be for a 9.5mm high drive, so you will need the plastic spacer which comes on the C1. If it turns out that the drive is too high, you can then easily remove the spacer (it is screwed on).

If at a later date you decide to move the SDD to a desktop, you can easily find a suitable 2.5 to 3.5 bracket for about £5 (OcUK stock one).

That said, there would be no problem if you got the R5, you'd just have an unused bracket to store.

Matthew
 
My new Intel X-25M arrived today and I've flashed the firmware. Had a slight brown-trouser moment...
After hitting 'y' to proceed with the flash it just hung there for about 5 minutes then eventually said something along the lines of 'Error occurred reading drive A, Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail. At this point I though my drive was stuffed. I hit A for abort then it just hung again so I had to hard reset. However, booting from the firmware dvd again said the update was already installed and I was able to continue with a Windows 7 install.
The firmware reported that version 2CV102G9 was installed originally, and now it is at 2CV102HA - does this sound right?

Another issue is that when windows update tried to install the "AHCI utility" it bluescreened. Other than that everything appears to be running OK and all my apps are back up and running. Very impressed with the difference.
 
JMicron JMB322 Controller and Intel X25M

Hi,

I have a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard and an Intel X25M 160Gb G2. The gigabyte motherboard has 6 ICH10r sata ports, and 4 Jmicron JMB322 sata ports.

I would like to use the ICH10r for 7200rpm raided hard drives for storage.

I would like to install Windows 7 on the Intel X25M in AHCI mode to a Jmicron SATA port and boot from it.

Is that advised or possible, and will the native MS AHCI driver pass the TRIM command to those Jmicron Sata ports?

Many thanks!
 
Anyone with the withdrawn Intel firmware in possesion? I would kill to get it on my 4 new Intel drives.

If so please email in trust. Thanks
 
hey said the update will be here before the end of November, why risk bricking your drives when the fix is so close to release?
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We're at the end of the month and nothing has been uploaded yet. It looks as though it's a tougher job than first guesstimated.

So if anyone has the pulled firmware, please send it via trust. Or to niemion at gmail dot com.

Thank you
 
niemi said:
Anyone with the withdrawn Intel firmware in possesion? I would kill to get it on my 4 new Intel drives.
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It may very well kill your 4 new Intel drives, given other peoples experience.

We're not quite at the end of the month yet - there's still Monday, and unless you are planning to do a very lot of writing and rewriting data on them over the weekend, it is unlikely you'll have used the drives enough for them to have degraded enough to need TRIM before then anyway!

Matthew
 
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