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Solid State Drive in A31

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Solid State Drive in A31

#1 Post by luke4010 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:45 pm

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?
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31

#2 Post by ajkula66 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:49 pm

Both of these are utter junk.

Just get a decent used PATA HDD and call it a day.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31

#4 Post by schaki » Sun May 11, 2014 3:10 pm

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.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31

#5 Post by Saucey » Sun May 11, 2014 4:49 pm

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.
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Re: Solid State Drive in A31

#6 Post by Adda » Wed May 14, 2014 10:21 am

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

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