[HH] Alternatives to SSDs for laptops?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jon Evans <jon at craftyjon.com> wrote:
> Having gone down this path before, my humble opinion is that you should just
> bite the bullet and upgrade to SSD, at least in the machine with SATA.  You
> can put the 640GB drive in an external enclosure and use a much smaller SSD
> -- the performance improvement is definitely worth the hassle to me (I
> actually use a NAS instead of an external hard drive, but either way...)
>
> For the other machine, your options are more limited.  There are 1.8" PATA
> SSDs out there, which may work depending on what electrical interface your
> machine has (what make/model is it?)
> http://www.amazon.com/RunCore-Solid-State-Drive-Macbook/dp/B004A8UNSC/ref=pd_cp_pc_1

It's an HP 2510p and it looks like people are already using RunCore
SSDs in them, so this looks like the easiest option for that machine.

Bill Bogstad