does anyone(vendors) have z68 based laptops with ssd caching from the factory?

[Zargon]

seriously.


having trouble locating one for a friend, curious if they even exist

they should, with the little msata drives its a shoe-in on laptops

 

[Meaker10]

There is no mobile z68 chipset, all desktop ones in a notebook are the x58. Expect the x58 ones to be refreshed to x79 at some point.

With the performance difference between the desktop and mobile sandy bridge so small there was no point.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

There is no mobile z68 chipset, all desktop ones in a notebook are the x58. Expect the x58 ones to be refreshed to x79 at some point.

With the performance difference between the desktop and mobile sandy bridge so small there was no point.

There is no such thing as mobile X58 chipset.

The list of available intel chipset is below.

Mobile Intel® UM67 Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® HM67 Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® HM57 Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® QM67 Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® QS67 Express Chipset

 

[Meaker10]

Read what I said again.

All DESKTOP ones in a notebook. With the clevo x7200 you get a DESKTOP X58 in a notebook. They never updated to a desktop z68 because there was no point. You may well see them update with a DESKTOP X79.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Read the Momentus 750 GB laptop review on the AT main page, it has 8 GB of SSD cache built in. It can be used with any chipset and OS, since the caching is done inside the hard drive itself:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5160/seagate-2nd-generation-momentus-xt-750gb-hybrid-hdd-review

 

[Zargon]

cool guys thanks for the info

ssd caching just seems like a no brainer for laptops, but I guess not

 

[Zap]

Doesn't some Ultrabooks use SSD caching? There are also other vendors of SSD caching besides Intel.

 

[IntelUser2000]

seriously.


having trouble locating one for a friend, curious if they even exist

they should, with the little msata drives its a shoe-in on laptops

It says the mobile chipsets are capable of supporting it

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...t-response-technology-ssd-caching,2938-3.html

It’s important to point out that the mobile HM67 and QM67 chipsets are also capable of enabling SSD caching.

Here's one from a Newegg review:
Pros: Fits in a number of Lenovo ThinkPads (T, W series, X-220) and Dell Latitudes (E6420, E6520) while still allowing a mechanical hard drive for storage. Much faster than a mechanical hard drive. Intel reliability is always a plus as well.

If you get the Rapid Storage Technology suite installed, you might get an option for the SSD caching software, provided the hardware supports it. It's too bad that they don't seem to be more widespread.

Doesn't some Ultrabooks use SSD caching? There are also other vendors of SSD caching besides Intel.

The Acer Aspire S3 has the 20GB SSD(Intel SSD 31x?) but only seems to use it for getting out of sleep/hibernation.

 

[Meaker10]

Well you have this X79 laptop the Clevo P270WM, BUUUUT I don't think portability was the number 1 concern on it's design sheet....

 

[DaveSimmons]

BRAAAAAAINS! Necro thread!

For anyone not a zombie:
Just get a bigger SSD, or the Seagate 705 GB platter drive (Momentus XT) with built in flash RAM cache.