$20 for a SSD workaround?

[mooingmooseman]

Hey guys,

I've been explorering SSD for my t43 and the only problem now is price. Then I bumped into this

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... midecf.asp

it says it uses IDE, not sure if t43 support that.

If not, do you guys know of anything similar? I've seen one other one that uses 4 SD cards but it was $200 just for the adapter. Need something that is capable of accepting the high capacity cards though (8gb each, etc)

Also, anyone know the performance of these compared to regular hard drive? vs. a $1000 SSD from samsung?

[Johan]

Sounds very interesting - but the problem might be that T43's are using SATA disks (not PATA), and moreover than only certain SATA HDD's will work in T43's (see the sticky here in the T4x forum: Problems with non-thinkpad option drives on T43 thinkpads).

EDIT: What I wrote above in partly incorrect (see correction by gator, below - thanks gator!). T43's uses PATA drives, and an internal PATA-to-SATA bridge. As mentioned, only certain PATA-drives will work in T43's (the famous 2010-error).

I think you will find this thread of interest: Replacement of hard drive with SSD.

Highly interested if you continue along this route and get something to work! Please report back...

Beat regards,

Johan

[mooingmooseman]

i have indeed seen that thread but that guy's route is a little too nuts for me. I'm looking for something that can run vista with some programs attached (so 16gb at least) but still fairly cheap

any suggestions on drives? i keep seeing reports of a 32 gb sandisk drive for $350 but don't actually see anyone selling it. samsung doesn't even have their legendary drives listed on their website.

[gator]

Sounds very interesting - but the problem might be that T43's are using SATA disks (not PATA), and moreover than only certain SATA HDD's will work in T43's (see the sticky here in the T4x forum ...

Johan, the T43 uses PATA drives. There is a SATA-PATA bridge on the motherboard. The T60 was the first T-series thinkpad to support SATA HDDs. The T43 will take only PATA (aka IDE).

[mooingmooseman]

so something like this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=019

any idea where i can find it for even cheaper maybe?

[Johan]

Johan, the T43 uses PATA drives. There is a SATA-PATA bridge on the motherboard. The T60 was the first T-series thinkpad to support SATA HDDs. The T43 will take only PATA (aka IDE).

My apologies for spreading this incorrect information; I knew this, but too much haste caused my post. I'll edit above, and correct my error.

Sorry, and thank you very much for pointing out this error so soon that hopefully no-one had a chance to do anything wrong because of me. Silly me!

Best regards,

Johan

[SHoTTa35]

so something like this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=019

any idea where i can find it for even cheaper maybe?

you're not gonna find them anywhere cheaper really because a 32GB now goes for like $500 on newegg.com.

Also that probably wont work since it's the 1.8" version and our laptops use 2.5". In the 2.5" size they are even more expensive, try $800.00!!

and this one here, a Samsung IDE 64GB would be super nice in my laptop... solve all my needs!

(oh and FYI - the link above about the SSD Review, well it was coming but stalled because work got in the way but i didn't forget about it)

[tselling]

I don't believe that one will work. I think that one has the IDE ZIF connection not the standard IDE connection that thinkpads use. I think the one below will work:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820609230

so something like this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=019

any idea where i can find it for even cheaper maybe?

[mooingmooseman]

hm thanks.

would i be able to get some kinda of convertor to make a 1.8" into a 2.5"? what does the ultrabay slim 2nd hard drive adapter take?

[PsychoStreak]

It takes 2.5" drives.