Thinkpad T440s: do I want a m.2 msata ssd?

[William Weaver]

I have the same thing with my laptop. When I ran my partitioner it showed
up as just another drive that I wiped and installed Fedora on. Something to
keep in mind with it is that it might not be as fast as other SSDs as it is
for backup purposes. Also I do not believe it's intended to be read and
written to as often as a primary OS drive would be. Works for me but YMMV.

Good luck,

Will


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have just bought a new lenovo thinkpad t440s, and am expecting it in
> a couple of weeks.  I'm feeling a little bored/frustrated with ubuntu
> (I guess mostly irritated over this Mir thing) and I think I will
> install Arch and maybe KDE just to see what they're like (I mostly use
> emacs, web browsers, and thunderbird, so my DE isn't really all that
> important for me, though I do like a decent desktop search).
>
> When configuring this beast i declined to buy the 16G M.2 msata drive
> that lenovo offers a an add-on, thinking I could just install one
> later and likely for a lot less.
>
> That turns out to be true, and e.g. this 42mm device from amazon is
> quite a bit larger than what they offered
> (
> http://www.amazon.com/MyDigitalSSD-Super-Cache-Solid-State/dp/B00EZ2E8NO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386005926&sr=8-1&keywords=m.2+ssd
> )
>
> Here are a couple of questions:
>
> 1.  I was thinking I would put the OS on the mSATA and keep the main
> 256G SATA disk for /home.  Does this sound sensible?
>
> 2.  The original 16G mSATA is used "for caching purposes only"
> according to the tech specs.  What exactly does this mean?  Is this
> something we can use under Linux?  And is there any reason to believe
> one would or would not be able to boot from one of these drives?
>
> thanks as always!
>
> Matt
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