E6520 Owner's Thread

Thank you very much Scott, your advice is much appreciated.
I will need to find the right glue and give it a try, if not will get an new lid although the wiring looks a bit messy.

 

New Bios out, let's hope they included the option to stop battery charging to 100%

 

question for you erblemoof - i've read all of your posts about trying to get the corestore drive to work etc. what i'm wondering is if you ever tried to get it (or any other msata drives) setup as an accelerator through the intel rst software, as opposed to just being a boot drive. i've been doing a lot of reading in the last couple of days to try and figure out how to speed up my e6520 without spending a ton of $ and without also losing the 500GB drive i have in it now (i have 400 gigs of family pics and videos on there; yes, they are backed up, but i also need to keep them on there too). everything i've read is that intel's rst works way better than getting something like a seagate momentus xt (hybrid drive), but i'm trying to figure out if an msata ssd would be detected by the e6520 as a supplemental drive (as opposed to a boot drive) to be able to set it up in this way. see Chipset Software — Intel® Smart Response Technology User Guide to see how the rst works...

thanks for your insight!

wally

 

You're telling me, it's very strange. My VBIOS is currently 75.19.17.... I wonder how that compares to 72.19.6A ??? Since when is it hexadecimal?

Also, a few days ago there was a new GT520M driver released, quiet an update for me....not that I had a chance to test it. I am interested in giving LOTRO a shot though. Any advice ranran? Standard or high def pack?

EDIT: At time of downloading I'm on A17....

 

Hi guys! I tried to search through the most recent pages of this thread, but haven't found an answer to my question (hopefully I didn't miss it). I recently bought a secondary HDD caddy hoping to install my old SSD into it. Got this one here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290856127623

First one I got didn't fit into my laptop, so I thought that I just got a bad one. Didn't think much else. However, I just received my replacement today and that one doesn't fit either! Did I order the wrong one? When I look at the SATA and power connectors on the caddy, it's slightly higher up than the SATA and power connector of my CD/DVD drive (not sure if this is relevant).

What do you guys think?

EDIT: Just to clarify, the caddy itself doesn't fit into my laptop. The SSD itself does fit into the caddy, however.

EDIT 2: Not sure why, but the link doesn't work when you click on it. It works if you copy paste the url though

 

This is same caddy which i had got for my laptop.
It fit in properly and never had issue.
Maybe they changed the design.
Contact them with findings.

They should send correct one.


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hey dr.pratik, thanks for your reply! I've already done 2 exchanges with them (for a total of 3 different caddys altogether), and none of these 3 fit. I'm wondering if something's wrong with my laptop... my CD/DVD drive fits fine though?

 

Oops, lost email notification, so you've probably already taken care of this, but I regularly run LOTRo (single client) with high res on the NVS4200M in the e6520 without problems, on high graphics. Works without a glitch, although loading times are a bit longer with this 5400rpm drive, vs. my SSD in my desktop (fast!) and I do two clients at once on there.

GT520M? Do you have that in the e6520 instead of the Quadro? I am running the 311 drivers now, have worked flawlessly for me, so I am reticent to "upgrade" to the 320 drivers...

 

Wally, it's been a long time since you posted this. I obviously don't frequent the boards anywhere near as much as I used to.

I still have the 32GB mSATA drive and the CoreStore. I'll play with the RST drivers this weekend and see what happens, but my gut tells me they won't do a thing because the mSATA circuitry isn't in the hardware in the first place. That's the #1 requirement for mSATA to work. Sadly, the mSATA circuitry isn't in the E6530 or the E6540, either.

I would recommend finding a Crucial M500 960GB SSD drive. They're $600 retail (if you can find one, they sell out so quickly whenever they come back in stock I have yet to pick one up myself), which sounds like a lot but is actually a really good deal considering the speed and massive amount of space.

I'll try out the RST setup and let you know.

erblemoof

 

I just can't understand why - Lenovo had this years ago.... It would be a small addition, but such a boon for the longevity of the laptop..

That's quite expensive and 2/3 of the way to a brand new laptop...hard to swallow for most, I think. I've got a 750GB 5400rpm drive in there now - slow as molasses upon startup and login, but once everything is loaded and done, it works well. and like wally I need the storage too. I've considered those hybrid SSD's, but don't think I want to fork out the money for those - especially losing storage in the process (e.g. for a 500GB).

I too gave up on my convoluted ideas of trying to wire up a small internal flash drive to the eSATA port or something complex - it just isn't worth the time...