Recommended SSD for X40

[gravesp]

Hello.

Looking to replace the dog 1.8" 40GB drive in my X40. Has anyone successfully installed an SSD in one of these?

Thanks.

[tim S]

I believe the only working X40 HD replacement right now is a CF card with an adapter.
XP, if that's your OS, installs in about 4 gigs of a 16Gig card, of course, depending on your needs the remaining 12Gigs may not be enough space for your other files etc. There are new 32Gig cards now but the fast ones you need are very expensive.
The second answer is odd and very frustrating at first..... Linux!
It may create as many problems as it solves for some users but speed won't be one of them, this OS (Ubuntu) really puts some get up and go back into the original drive.
There's a pretty steep learning curve plus Window's file implementation is pretty bleak but I gave it a try (you can't beat the price of admission!) and it works very well on my X40l.
Tim S

[mattbiernat]

are there going to be SSDs that work in X4X in any foreseeable future?

[pxa270]

Maybe, but probably not. Or at least they'll be rare, and thus expensive. That's because the particular form factor of the X40 drive (1.8" with a 2.5" PATA interface) never got popular, and is now almost completely abandoned. The vast majority of future drives will be SATA, and the handful of PATA drives usually have different shapes and connectors, so that they won't fit (or only with some rare adapters). CF->IDE adapters will probably remain the most straightforward option.

[gravesp]

Thanks for the feedback. So it appears that an HDD/SSD upgrade for an X40 is almost a dead-end unless one turns to a home-grown solution.

Looks like I'll "drive it until the wheels fall off" & look at a modern X series replacement at that time.

[aceo07]

I'm hoping for cheaper/bigger/faster CF cards to come out. I'm only using 8GB CF on mine. It's not too bad since I just access big files from a fileserver.

[weepy]

some eshops in czech republic offered adata perfect-X4x-fit 1.8" SSDs, both SLC and MLC version, similar to CF solution price-wise. Try to google about it or contact adata, since it seems they stopped offering them (X40,X41 hdds- not really big market ).

[tbessie]

I believe the only working X40 HD replacement right now is a CF card with an adapter.
XP, if that's your OS, installs in about 4 gigs of a 16Gig card, of course, depending on your needs the remaining 12Gigs may not be enough space for your other files etc. There are new 32Gig cards now but the fast ones you need are very expensive.
The second answer is odd and very frustrating at first..... Linux!
It may create as many problems as it solves for some users but speed won't be one of them, this OS (Ubuntu) really puts some get up and go back into the original drive.
There's a pretty steep learning curve plus Window's file implementation is pretty bleak but I gave it a try (you can't beat the price of admission!) and it works very well on my X40l.
Tim S

I agree with you there; I'm a software developer, and sometimes use my X40 for that (amazingly enough). Under Windows, it's usable, but very very slow, very long start-up times, etc.

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 (latest version) on it, and have been doing Java development in Eclipse on it... MUCH better response times, faster start up times, a lot less disk accesses necessary to do its work (I've heard Linux is a lot more efficient at keeping things in memory than Windows is).

I just bought a T400, which I'll eventually be using instead, but if you want to keep an X40 in service, Linux is a good option.

- Tim

[Cinzano]

Is there anyone who have tried this

http://www.mtron.net/English/Product/P ... D-PATA1018

there is also a version called 3018 with 3 year warranty

16 or 32 gb

[Boberro]

some eshops in czech republic offered adata perfect-X4x-fit 1.8" SSDs, both SLC and MLC version, similar to CF solution price-wise. Try to google about it or contact adata, since it seems they stopped offering them (X40,X41 hdds- not really big market ).

Do you mean this drive?
http://www.adata.com.cn/en/product_show ... =ASE0PASPL

[Frank]

Is there anyone who have tried this
...
there is also a version called 3018 with 3 year warranty

16 or 32 gb

Yes ... look at this Link: http://www.think4d.de/nbb/x41_ssd.htm

You'll need an ZIF to IDE adapter.

[weepy]

some eshops in czech republic offered adata perfect-X4x-fit 1.8" SSDs, both SLC and MLC version, similar to CF solution price-wise. Try to google about it or contact adata, since it seems they stopped offering them (X40,X41 hdds- not really big market ).

Do you mean this drive?
http://www.adata.com.cn/en/product_show ... =ASE0PASPL

This is probably next iteration, the ones i saw had different pictures and were slower.

The link doesn't work in my Firefox3...