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.)
SSD drive in IDE laptop?
Dec 21, 2014
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Would it fit? I'd have thought it would be too long for a typical laptop's drive bay.
Yes. I had to pick and choose the adaptor off ebay quite carefully, but it worked.
It was something like this:
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JM20330 chip - that doesn't work for some people, but it did for me.
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
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