[HH] Alternatives to SSDs for laptops?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Shankar Viswanathan
<shankar.viswan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had a circa 2002 laptop with a similarly slow PATA drive. I had upgraded to a newer laptop but was still using this old laptop as an email/IM/browser station in the kitchen. One day the disk started showing error messages and it eventually died completely (sometime in 2008). I didn't want to spend a lot to get a new drive, but found an easier solution. I got a CompactFlash -> PATA HDD adapter from Newegg that was specifically designed for internal laptop drives. I don't remember the exact product name, but it was something like this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186050

Unfortunately, that is a CF to 2.5" PATA adapter.   That is much more
common then the 1.8" PATA ZIF form factor.   I think that a CF card is
physically smaller than the 1.8" PATA form factor, so it might be
possible, but I haven't seen one.   If you are sure that it was for a
1.8" ZIF interface any clues would be appreciated.

Bill Bogstad