2.5 ide to Sata SSD

has any body tried converting the IDE in the Empeg to a Sata? so you can run a SSD hard drive in it?

as this will fix the problem of hard drives going bad because of vibration.

Stephen
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You can still get PATA SSD drives. For example. I recently put one of the Transcend ones in my mk2a.

I am also interested in this question; I am considering something like this:

http://www.addonics.com/products/io/adsaide44.asp

as SATA discs are much cheaper, and PATA is not going to get easier to find in the future. Plus I want to go to SSD, and again, the SATA variants are significantly cheaper.

I'm thinking I can fit this by mounting only a single disc sideways on the HDD tray.

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad44midecf.asp

These have been discussed before. Cheaper than an SSD. Errr no they aren't, lots of ssd's are cheaper than cf+adapter

Hi,

Transcend is manufacturing PATA-SSDs now:
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001NS2SP8

I don't know if the SSDs will work in the empeg...

Alex

They have been for a while -- see (at least) my post from August 2011 in this thread. They work fine in the empeg.

CF-Cards + adapters beat those on price and very likely equal them on performance inside an empeg.

Whoops, my mistake - I thought they were all new, but its only a new model (psd320).

Alex

my 320gb pata drive in my main empeg has been throwing occasional block errors and so i'm at least thinking about this now; assuming i need at least 240gb, what's going to win on a price standpoint these days? probably actually just keep buying 320gb laptop drives at $99/pop
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Cache-Notebook/dp/B001SQH1DY
until either SSD or CF prices drop?