I meant only capable of ATA100, versus ATA133. But ICH6-M is also natively capable of SATA 1 (150MB/s) for those of us who have the chance to have a motherboard featuring it. There is no Dell M70 SATA mod that I know of.

According to Intel's documentation, the ICH6-M, southbridge of the 915PM chipset, is only capable of ATA100 (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/io-controller-hub-6-datasheet.html - page 184, section 5.16.3). Interesting fact, this docs indicates that ATA100 can achieve read transfer rates up ...

Hello, For your information, I have just installed a new Samsung 840 EVO mSATA SSD with an Aleratec mSATA to PATA adapter (Marvell 88SA8052 chip) into my old Dell M70 (Intel 915PM chipset). A fresh install of Windows 8.1 or 7 would not work properly (very low I/O perf, lots of freezes, etc.), but cl...