IDE SSD for old Laptop ?

garywork · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:57

Hi

sure this is mad but are there IDE SSDs for laptops and would it
revolutionise my old 1 GIG CPU 1 GIG RAM Dell XP laptop ?

has to be financial madeness but i'm intrigued

any pointers would be appreciated

rpstewart · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:56

You can get them but they're few and far between. Not sure what the performance is like but certainly nothing close to current SATA SSDs (you're limited to 133Mb/s for a start).

Transcend seem to be the only manufacturer from a quick Google.

Mad Professor · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:24

I am also looking for a IDE SSD but for a Fujitsu Stylistic ST5032D Tablet PC, 1400Mhz, 2GB Ram.

I have been looking around the net, but only seem to come across brands I have never heard before.

Mr-White · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:39

You can buy ide to sata converters but tbh unless you're planning on buying a small 2nd hand ssd then financially you'd be better off buying a new laptop

MW

ubersonic · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:49

Just search everyone's favourite on-line auction site for "2.5" ide ssd" the are loads, performance >ide hdd but <sata ssd, A company called kingspec make a lot of them but don't be put off by it being an unknown brand they ave a lot of good reviews on the net

garywork · 5 Feb 2011 at 16:03

Thanks for the info

The Halk · 5 Feb 2011 at 16:13

From memory the problem isn't with the maximum bandwidth - it's plenty.. the problem is with the latency added and incompatibility.

Have you considered a PCIe SSD instead?

zangetsu19 · 5 Feb 2011 at 16:20

i would say dont do, why do you want to do what you going to use the laptop for?