[PLUG] Thinkpad T60 QXGA

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Fri Dec 11 07:59:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> The only comment I have is probably irrelevant to what Keith is putting
> together.
>
> I have a T61 and I recently discovered that the internal Intel SATA
> controller
> is SATA-2, but Lenovo throttled it to 100 MB/s. The official explanation is
> to
> ensure compatibility with PATA drives in the Ultrabay, in case anyone does
> this. In reality, the controller would handle the issue and throttling the
> SATA-2 controller was unnecessary. Another bad design decision.
> Nevertheless, I
> am stuck with a recently acquired new SATA-2 drive that runs at only 100
> GB/s.
>
> This does not affect later Thinkpads, and I don't know if it affects the
> T60.
>



100GB/s, that's the drive I want!   Seriously, for a single laptop drive of
the type that spins platters, you are not limited by a 100MB/s interface
because the drive itself is only capable of transfer rates of  60MB/s or
less.

Bill



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