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| Can you recommend me a fairly good PATA (2.5") solid-state drive with at least 120GB of disk space? Help a fella out by throwing em some bargains! >:D |
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| Don't do it, you'll regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life. |
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| If you're in the US then you might want to start looking here: http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/hard_removable_drives/ssd_128gb |
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| I don't think I've ever seen a PATA SSD -- not sure if they even make them, pretty much all of them are SATA these days. If nothing else, you're going to see very little speed difference: depending on the cabling/controller used, PATA can be either 66, 100 or 133MB/sec. Even modern spinning platter harddrives are often faster than 133MB/sec, meaning that there would be very little benefit in using SSD over PATA. (For comparison: I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm spinning platter (SATA) disk, that benchmarks at 175MB/sec. My 240GB SSD boot drive clocks in at 585MB/sec, but you are NEVER going to get more than 100/133 over PATA in even the best case scenarios -- and likely less than that in the real world thanks to the shared bus. |
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| What I need is a 44pin PATA drive (maybe not SSD, idk). I have used the majority of my latitude's hard drive after a clean installation of Ubuntu and only have 9GB left on my disk. LOL! |
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| there's not many of those around anymore, since pretty much all computers in the past 7 years or so have been SATA. Because of that, any PATA drive is going to be fairly small, and relatively expensive. That said, here's a few of them: http://goo.gl/x2EQy |
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| You can get a converter cable or adapter and use a SATA drive. |
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| EDIT: nvm Last edited 2012 |
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| I've recently got a Samsung SSD 830 256GB... best PC upgrade in years!! Last edited 2012 |
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| You can get a converter cable or adapter and use a SATA drive. Most laptops don't have space in the HDD bay for any additional converter dongles. |
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| Hi. I found a solution to my problem. I already have a previously used SATA drive and found a really good deal on a second caddy here. Thank you, everyone for your suggestions and all of that valued information. :) |
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| I'm pretty sure that that caddy will only work if you already have an onboad SATA drive controller on your motherboard, which is unlikely if it came shipped with a PATA hard drive. :-? |
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| Actually, it is working perfectly. Like a charm actually. +290GB to my dino! :P |
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