Mel -
Thank you very much. I think I may have done a bone-headed thing. I was completely ignorant of mSATA vs SATA ( did I mention I HATE HARDWARE !!! ) but at least when the drive arrives today I won't be shocked that it doesn't fit.
Since I see adapters are sold ( wont' fit in laptop of course ) I have to assume the connector is different. AAARGH.
Oh well, can probably return ( Amazon ). The mSATA don't seem to be the same great deal but will probably still go through with the upgrade.
Thanks for the heads up.
>Charles, have you checked the spec's on your Lenovo? I have a y470 and it supports a special version of SSD's which is the mSATA which I suspect yours does. Your 570 and my 470 are almosst identical, and share the same manual. Other than that I don't know much about it other than its the best notebook by far I have ever had.
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>CORRECTION: you have a 560 - sorry for the error but still could be the same issue.
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http://www.studentbuyingguide.com/2011/09/lenovo-ideapad-y470-review/>
>What I also found is (unless they changed something) just replacing the regular HD with a normal SDD in this model still uses the older SATA spec, whereass the mSATA is unique to this model and special.
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>>Samsung 250mb SSDs are about $170 now so mine arrives tomorrow.
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>>My laptop is an i7 and runs Win 7 64bit so seems like it will be worth the effort to upgrade the primary drive.
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>>Found an HD caddy to swap into the CD Rom bay, so will move the current primary - 500 mb to that as a second drive..
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>> Running multiple instances of VS2012, with SSMS etc is just getting tedious on my old desktop with 32bit. (and that's in 2012 and c# - vs2010 with a big VB app is painful. )
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>>Laptop has 6gb now but I will soon bump to 8 (which is the official max. y580s are said to handle 16gb nicely but not sure about the y560 yet, though I suspect the processor and 64bit os are more the issue )
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>>Anybody have experience of upgrading a laptop to SSD?
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>>I hear is it a very nice difference. They say it comes with software to mirror current HD to new one but if not I have Paragon suite.
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>>I'll report back tomorrow on results, or at least vent my frustration ( I hate hardware and all its evil works )
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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