Has anyone installed an SSD drive in an IDE laptop,
using a SATA to IDE adaptor?
Is this feasible?

(I have a Thinkpad T43 which still works well,
and a cheap 128GB SSD drive,
and I was wondering if I can put them together.)

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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone installed an SSD drive in an IDE laptop,
using a SATA to IDE adaptor?
Is this feasible?

(I have a Thinkpad T43 which still works well,
and a cheap 128GB SSD drive,
and I was wondering if I can put them together.)


Would it fit? I'd have thought it would be too long for a typical laptop's
drive bay.

Alan Deane wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone installed an SSD drive in an IDE laptop,
using a SATA to IDE adaptor?
Is this feasible?

Yes. I had to pick and choose the adaptor off ebay quite carefully, but it
worked.

It was something like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SATA-Femal...-/390566635817

JM20330 chip - that doesn't work for some people, but it did for me.

Would it fit? I'd have thought it would be too long for a typical laptop's
drive bay.

That's the biggest problem. I had to take the SSD board out of its metal
case to make it fit - my SSD board was only half length so there was enough
space. It was a Kingston 30GB SSD.

Theo