Good news for Latitude X1 owners!

channelv,

In fact, my own X1 is of US origin bought from Dell. Another one I had in my hands was from UK and it had the same clock generator.

I remember that someone (from UK) was telling few years ago that he managed to overclock his X1 using other software (which did not work for my X1). I will try to find his post. It may be a chance for you.

By the way, how the PC Wizard 2008 identifies the mainboard of your X1?

 

Can someone confirm which ATA speed the RunCore SSD's has?

 

I'm also thinking about upgrading my X1 with the Mtron 32GB SSD. Would you guys still recommend it or would it maybe be better to wait for the new sandisks [1] which are supposed to arrive in mid 2009? The sandisk sounds tempting because it's supposed to be faster (and offers 60GB) while being even cheaper than the Mtron. What do you think?

[1] http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=4478

 

The Sandisk press release does not mention a 1.8" PATA/IDE drive what I can see?
So the Mtron is one of the only options still as I see it.

 

Thanks for your reply! So it's not possible to use the 1.8" SSD with the SATA-II interface (in combination with some adapter) in the X1?

 

In short, no.

The X1 has a PATA/IDE interface and even if you find "some adapter" it will not fit in the computer. It seems people have problem even with the connector-adapters between ZIF and the different PATA/IDE-connectors available.

 

That's not true. I have an X1 running with a 120 GB ZIF drive with the PATA->ZIF adapter. It's *tricky* to fit it in, but it is possible.

--Jon

 

Just upgraded my X1 to the Mtron 32GB SSD from the Samsung 32GB SSD. It looks like it works fine (still running Dell 32-bit diagnostics).

BTW, I have the SanDisk Extreme III 16GB SD card in my X1 and it works fine. No problem with reading/writing so far.

 

How2do,
would you please run HDtune and post your results about the speed of your new HDD and your SD card.

 

Ok, will do .. (still did not install any OS), but I ran a CT3 utility under MS-DOS and got about 11984 KB/sec for all read speeds (Buffered, Sequential, and Random). The same results I got for the Intel X25-E 32GB SSD (about 17 MB/sec), I used in my Lenovo X200 laptop.

It is interesting that for the old Samsung 32GB SSD in my X1 this CT3 utiltiy shows about 50 MB/sec under MS-DOS (also for all type of speeds), though this SSD worked at Ultra DMA Mode 2 in Windows XP/Vista (because, as you told, the X1 does not support the Ultra66 mode). The Samsung SSD still was very fast and responsive.

BTW, these tests show that the defragmentation is completely useless for the SSDs (as the sequential read speed equals to the random read speed).