Is "2.5 IDE to mSATA" a viable upgrade for an IDE Thinkpad?

[cogitordi]

I thought my X32 was nearing obsolescence but then I saw this item on Famous Auction Site: 181138657851.

It's a 2.5 IDE to mSATA housing. SSDs have become affordable and IDE hard disks are becoming rare.

If anyone is using such an adapter, please share information about your hardware (adapter, mSATA SSD). I am hoping to find a solution that is cool (literally) and favours the battery.

[ganon11000]

I'm using a ide to msata and am getting 80+MB/s on it (thinkpad X41, Crucial M4 64GB msata drive)

DON'T FORGET THESE OLDER COMPUTERS HAVE NO GPU ACCELERATION ON WINDOWS 8 (I still use windows 8 but you can't play YouTube and do something else etc..)

[CometCKO]

It's working for me too on an IBM x40. I got the Chinese eBay mSATA to IDE adapter (making certain to get the 3.3v version not the 5v version). Picked up a used 80GB Intel 320 mSATA drive for $70. Used the original R&R restore disks to re-install all the Thinkpad factory settings. Speeds are terrific, altho the PATA is limited to IDE/ATA100 speeds, so about half what you'd see for a pure SATA connection. But it's far faster than the original 4300rpm Hitachi's.

Highly recommended.

[ganon11000]

JUST DON'T FORGET TO DISABLE TRIM AS IT CAUSES THE CONTROLLER TO CRASH EVERY ~10 SECONDS

[CometCKO]

Actually, I'm running win XP sp3. I've downloaded the Intel SSD toolbox, which supports periodic trimming on my Intel drive. If you are running Win 7, you may have some issues via the PATA connection.

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[ganon11000]

I'm on windows 8 and if trim is enabled its unusable!