Thinkpad X40 and sd card to ide 44pin?

[rorlover]

Ive been looking at harddrive alternatives for my thinkpad x40. It still has it loud and slow 40gb harddrive. I looked into cf card adapters and cf cards a little expensive and too small for me. So i looked if there was sd to ide 44 and there is. I was just wondering if anyone has success with this and if no one has ill just buy it and let you all know. Heres the link to the one i would get.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SD-SDHC-MMC-to- ... 3cc69fefd8
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-Secure-Dig ... 484bd009d2

[twistero]

I haven't seen reports on those yet, but you have other options:

1.8 inch ZIF hard drives with ZIF-to-44-pin-IDE adapter
1.8 inch SSD with ZIF-to-44-pin-IDE adapter
mSATA SSD with mSATA-to-44-pin-IDE adapter

[rorlover]

Im trying to get the best for the least. I paid 20bucks for my X40 and its mint i just dont want to stick alot of money into my secondary laptop.

[hrmcrm]

Bösendorfer has put a mSATA PCI-E SSD plus adapter board in an X40, and has a set of detailed pictures of the project at http://www.sweclockers.com/galleri/1047 ... -msata-mod

There are new and used mSATA SSDs and new 3.3V adapter boards available on eBay.

The modification is also discussed near the end of the thread at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 17#p702317

I did the installation on my X41, and find it very worthwhile. The 64GB SSD and adapter cost a bit over $60 US delivered.

Regards,
Howard

[dr_st]

Consider Compact Flash to IDE adapters. Provided that they can do UDMA, Compact Flash tends to cost less than Secure Digital as a function of speed and capacity.

[rorlover]

It dont matter much anymore i just bought a r60 so my little x40 is going in my glass case of my favorite computers probally right on top of my IBM5150

[twistero]

probally right on top of my IBM5150

For a second I thought you have a 5100. That would be way beyond awesome.

[rorlover]

That would be awesome. I probably dream of that on my desk tonight now lol. But im so excited for my little bit of a upgrade to the R60. Btw are they any good i got this one cheap and its the dual core one with 2gb ram ill upgrade to 3 of course.