Modern Solid State Storage for Old IDE Laptops - mSata SSD or SD-Card?

[@c462-]

Hey, great video! I love seeing ssds into old laptops, to see their max potential! I would love to see an old thinkpad running modern (probably 32 bits) linux!

[@classicdome9347]

Thank you! Running 32bit linux on this ThinkPad T23 is indeed possible, but limited by the small amount of RAM and the lack of SSE3 instructions because it has a pentium 3 processor. So using modern software from apt-get often ends with an error :(. I think Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest version which has software in its "Appstore" that runs good without SSE3... But systems that are a little bit newer like the t4x series support sse3 which leads to a much more usable retro machine for modern software :).

[@RetroGamerBB]

Also useful with dreamcast that have been ATA HDD modded

[@classicdome9347]

Thank you for the comment. Yes, this should work with almost every device that uses the IDE connector :)

[@goqwertygo]

That is the most adorable tiny ThinkPad I have ever seen😲😄 I thought this was going to be about putting an mSata drive in an old IDE laptop that has MPCI. but never knew there was IDE to mSata drive I recently got a 512GB DogFish mSata SSD to upgrade my Dell Latitude E6540. I can add 1 more with a slight modification to the internal chassis frame. The motherboard has 3 mpci slots, one for WiFi and 2 available for optional add in WLAN and Celular data cards that I'm not ever going to use.

[@classicdome9347]

Thank you! Putting an mSATA SSD into the mpcie slot of more modern laptops is a perfect way to upgrade the storage. However, in case of old laptops (as the ThinkPads shown in the video) mSATA is not supported of course :).

[@VonSteyr]

Very nice video. I'm waiting for a M2.SATA to IDE adapter to update an older Asus laptop. I was going for mSATA but got a cheap M2.SATA drive + adapter. It also helps that I have an M2.SATA enclosure to clone the old IDE drive. In those newer laptops you also update the OS?

[@classicdome9347]

Thank you! Laptops that are using the PATA interface are usually too old for a major OS upgrade. It would probably not lead to a great experience. I personally use the version of Windows that was originally used or some lightweight Linux distros on older ThinkPads. However, if the laptop has enough power to run a more modern OS -why not :).

[@ted-b]

I have two R50e ThinkPads. Both use those cheap "CY m-sata to IDE" enclosures with m-sata cards inside. Both report U-DMA mode 5. Have you tried a different chipset driver in your T23? Great video!

[@classicdome9347]

Thank you for your comment. Very interesting. I will investigate that, since I think I used the same cheap enclosure :).

[@TheMasterWanker]

Hmm the info about transfer is far from found on all the adaptors sold.