Good news for Latitude X1 owners!

The SDHC issue may be due to a bug in windows, and not specific to the latitude X1. See Microsoft Knowledge base, KB934428

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934428

 

The X1 will DEFINITELY read and write a 4gb SDHC with no problems. I also THINK but cannot confirm that the 8gb SDHC is fine as well, however anything greater (16 or 32gb) do NOT work, and it looks to be a hardware limitation.

Also, I got a Sandisk Extreme III Compact Flash card to test read/write speeds just to see whether I had a slow CF card of the CF reader on the X1 is poor. Unfortunately the latter was true. The CF reader, while being able to read/write 32gb cards with no problem is SLOW, maxing at 2mbps at best, and when you are transferring, it uses all your CPU time so you can barely do anything else such as browse the net. So in short, the CF card on the Latitude X1 should be good only for backup and not for anything else. If you want to stream videos etc, use a 4 or 8gb SDHC card.

 

Jonny's team installed the SSD for me. They were also able to transfer the full contents of the HD to the SSD, so no new installations required!

Results: My best estimates are that disk reading is 10x faster (!) and disk writing is about 20% slower. As I spend much more time reading my disk than writing to it, this was a great upgrade for me. I have sent my second X1 in for the same upgrade. Thanks, Jonny.

 

I think I have gathered that the Samsung 128ssd won't work in the X1 due to the limits of the computer (ie, it's not about room inside or adapter cables but about the motherboard limits), but since the comments to that effect were a while back, can someone who knows for sure tell me if this Samsung SSD is the one that won't work:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....0&Category=167&_trkparms=algo=LVI&its=I&otn=2

If not, has anyone found an SSD larger than 60 GB that does work, and if so, what adapter and cables did you buy, and where? Please include new links to the latter--the old, often referred-to link for the zif to ide adapter on ebay is broken.

Thanks--I'm new to some of the terms here, and want to be sure I understand the compatibility issues!

 

How are you going to connect SATA SSD to X1 which requires IDE hdd/ssd disks. I am not saying it is impossible, but it is the problem I was not able to solve so far.

 

Here you are:
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/zjlee08__W0QQ_armrsZ1


One should be careful with purchasing SDHC cards from China/HK. The first one 32 GB I bought from another seller (not on ebay anymore) was fake and faulty. Those no-name 32GB SDHC cards I bought from the seller above were both OK, up to 8MB/s benchmark read speed via USB adapter (HDTune), 4MB/s real-life write via SD-card reader of X1 (under Linux Mint).

 

Hi there,
Just to say, that recently I upgrade my Dell X1 with MAJOR 2GB SDRAM PC5300 667MHz.
Working perfectly.

Already bought this ZIF CE 1.8" to Micro IDE 1.8" Adapter Converter just for 3 British Pounds
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250437657008

Did anybody try to fit this SSD to X1?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180367257519
it is KingSpec 32GB SSD 1.8" ZIF MLC with 44 pins just for 85 British Pounds.

All the best, Tom

 

I need advice on how to return a driver to its native XP state.

I have two Dell X1's. On one, I installed an 8GB Kingston SDHC. Quickly, the card showed up in the 'My Computer' window with the name Kingston.

On my second X1, I foolishly used a 'driver updating' program to search my computer for drivers that could be updated. It updated my SD card reader driver with one called, "Ricoh SD/MMC Disk Device" (Microsoft, 1991) that now appears when a card or even the plastic protector piece is placed in the SD slot.

I can format the SDHC in the first X1. Formatting will start on the second X1, but rather than finishing it gives an error message.

First things first. Does anyone know how I could permanently remove this Ricoh driver? I've tried the Remove Driver option for the device, but it just comes back again when the computer is rebooted.

 

can you just restore your system to the state before you installed the ricoh driver?
(using windows system restore function)

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I waited too long and those Restore Points are gone.