Dell Latitude E4200 Info

Sure looks that way, as long as the casing is removable (the ones I've seen pictured so far looked easy to take apart with regular phillips screws), but you never know when someone might throw in rivets or torx or something unless the spec calls for the casing to be removable on 1.8" drives, which it may (or it may be an industry standard to make them able to be removed from the case.)

 

I am still not sure as the drive is actually reported in HDTune as 'Thin SATA' by Samsung. That may or may not point to the fact that these drives are meant for 'tight spots' so to speak. We won't know until we try though. I have every intention of getting my hands on a X-18 once it is available, to try this out. If it doesn't work, I can always throw it in a netbook.

 

Hi monakh,
Can you post a CrystalDiskMark for your 128G ssd?
I will post my 64G ultra performance when I get it tomorrow.

I will like to know the writing and small file perfermance for these two SSD.

CrystalDiskMark is here.
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

Thanks.

 

Sure, here you go:

 

Looks very good, especially for small file write. Thanks!

 

I have been trying a little experiment with my tiny E4200 on top of a ginormous Zalman NC2000 cooler. It drop my temps by about 5 degrees instantly and the huge fans in it make less noise than E4200's incessant fan at 6000RPM. However, the moment the temps drop under 42 degrees (or perhaps 40), the fan drops to 5200RPM. If I raise the cooler fan speed, and drop the ambient temps further a couple of degrees (with the DIMM and chipset at 37 and 38 degrees respectively), the E4200 fan drops to 0 (ZERO) RPM and effectively stops. This is with the CPU temp still at 41 degrees. The great thing about the NC2000 is that it is able to cool the entire laptop down which affects ambient temps. What this demonstrates is that the fan is not attached to the higher CPU temps, but higher chassis temps such as the aux sensor on the mainboard and the chipset temp sensor. As far as I can tell, there are at least six temp sensors (3 for the CPU [1 for each core + the CPU itself], 1 for the DIMM, 1 for the chipset and one is auxiliary but I am not sure exactly where it sits). So this can easily be remediated via a BIOS update provided enough of us clamor to get Dell's attention to this matter.

Folks in the Northeast can try it themselves by taking the E4200 outside in the sub-freezing temps. I am willing to bet that you will hear the fan stop

 

Have anyone noticed that the screen of E4200 can be only viewed clearly from a very limited angle? I am comparing it with Inspiron 700m. This is the only disppointment I have on the E4200 so far....

 

I don't have this problem. The angles aren't ideal but they aren't bad at all. In fact, I have a 3M privacy filter for the screen so folks sitting next to me on planes don't pry. The angles are at least that good. The privacy screen is a custom option for the E4200 that allows you to see the screen properly only when you look at it head on. It's an old technology of 3M's.

 

My 64G ultra performance SSD in vista safe mode.

Actually, in normal mode. All six numbers in crystal diskmark are lower than monakh's 128g mobility.

 

Actually your results are definitely better than what I posted. Here are my benchies under Safe Mode (which are unrealistic really since we don't normally run our laptops that way). Anyway, our results are a far cry from what was posted earlier in the thread. Those benchmarks were much higher, at least for average transfers:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=4149319&postcount=121

CrystalMark in SafeMode:
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 100.262 MB/s
Sequential Write : 73.564 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 98.014 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 64.565 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 17.206 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 5.711 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/03/04 22:51:16

And some other attachements (HDTune benchies from Safe Mode and in normal operation). I don't know what's up with HDTune benchmarks. BTW, I got pretty terrible HDTune results with my 73 processes running so I ran it right after I booted in Normal mode.

Anyone want to guess why our numbers are so different from others in this thread? I hope Dell didn't start screwing us with worse hardware due to cost issues. These numbers are more in line with the 1.8" drives that are up on eBay that CW linked to.