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For whatever reason, it seems that not too many SSDs are being built with a notebook IDE form-factors. There are probably a good number of notebooks still being used that have IDE drives in them, that could benefit from an SSD upgrade.
Edit: here is Newegg's selection.
Do any of those support TRIM? What controller do they use, is it a good one or a bad one? I hear so much about controllers for SSDs on here it makes my head spin. As I understand it, Intel = Best, Indilinx Barefoot = Next best, Samsung = Decent, all others = crap.
For example, this is the first product in that list, and for specs, it lists:
Sequential Access - Read 35MB/sec (max)
Sequential Access - Write 15MB/sec (max)
Isn't that horrid performance? It seems not really much better or different than a dual-channel USB flash drive. Where are the 100MB/sec performance numbers? I'm sure that the notebook IDE interfaces go that fast, don't they?
Edit: here is Newegg's selection.
Do any of those support TRIM? What controller do they use, is it a good one or a bad one? I hear so much about controllers for SSDs on here it makes my head spin. As I understand it, Intel = Best, Indilinx Barefoot = Next best, Samsung = Decent, all others = crap.
For example, this is the first product in that list, and for specs, it lists:
Sequential Access - Read 35MB/sec (max)
Sequential Access - Write 15MB/sec (max)
Isn't that horrid performance? It seems not really much better or different than a dual-channel USB flash drive. Where are the 100MB/sec performance numbers? I'm sure that the notebook IDE interfaces go that fast, don't they?