Since my 5 year old Sony Vaio Laptop is in the process of disintegrating I bought a Lenovo S205 netbook. Additionally I ordered another gig of RAM (the S205 came with 1 GB) and a 60GB OCZ Vertex Plus SSD.
It’s always good to know what you’re up to before taking up the screwdriver so I took a look at the S205s Hardware Maintenance Manual (direct link to the PDF) and off I went with disassembling the netbook:
After careful removal of the old harddrive, replacement with the SSD and adding the additional gigabyte of RAM it was ready to be closed up again.
After some trouble with installing Windows XP (I had to slipstream Service Pack 3 into the installation CD to make it work) all the work was definitely worth it:
If you’re going to install an SSD, be sure to read about partition alignment first, especially if you’re installing Windows previous to Vista!
Wy don’t you used the mSATA to solder a support ( buy on eb** at a good chinaise poeple) and mount a mSATA device, and use your hard drive only for mass storage ?
PS: the mSATA is under the wifi board, near the center.
Good to know it got an mSATA port! However, I didn’t need two drives (not even being sure if a second drive, even mSATA might fit in there) and I could make good use of the replaced 250GB HDD in a Home Theater PC.
Thanks for the information however!
Can you explain in detail what to buy and solder for that would set msata ssd?
Have you done this?
I saw in the mainboard a place to solder an extra msata port, but have you tried this? Is the BIOS going to find the SSD installed in this extra slot?
Please make a comment, since I do not want to give money for nothing if it is not going to work?
I shall appreciate your time answering this!
Kind regards,
Georgi
is it possible to put msata ssd + hdd in lenovo s205?