Solid State Drive in A31

[luke4010]

After getting my T60, I haven't been using my A31 too much but recently the Travelstar 60GB 7200rpm drive went out on it. I am looking to get a 64GB SSD for it, but don't know too much about them. It is kind of hard to find a 2.5" IDE SSD, and I've only found Kingspec or Transcend branded drives. Does anybody know if these brands are any good, or if there is a better brand out there?

[ajkula66]

Both of these are utter junk.

Just get a decent used PATA HDD and call it a day.

[automobus]

Have you seen this shopping adventure discussion? The search for a perfect mSATA to PATA bridge module. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=112081

Speed in A31 might automatically be limited to UDMA/33.

[schaki]

An Msata to 2.5" IDE adapter could be one solution. These adapters are inexpensive and a used Samsung Msata PM830 or 840 are not that expensive either. Though I'm sure how good they are compared to their 2.5" equivalents. Otoh the better Samsung SSDs since the 2.5" 830 has been top notch so there is hopefully not anything serious to worry about the ssds itself.

CF or SD card to 2.5" IDE is another possible solution. But generally these cards seems slower and could potentially become a bottleneck as the even the Sandisk Extreme Pro 90 or 92/mb/s are slower than the theoretical 133 mb/s which the Pata interface in the A31P are capable of.

[Saucey]

Is the CF or SD card slower than a mechanical pata?
The drive on the A31p I have is dying I believe, I do have other pata HDDs to use but well, reliability.

[Adda]

The A30 supports ATA100, the A31 uses the same SB as the A30, so it must also support ATA100.