SSD in regular laptop? or Accelerometer?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mark J Dulcey <mark-OGhnF3Lt4opAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 2/18/2010 7:47 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
>>
>> b) is a modern large (60GB or 128GB) SSD usable as a straight replacement
>> for a PATA/IDE laptop drive, or do I need to prevent swap/hibernate and
>> remount multiple directories as tempfs , noatime, border, with erase
>> alignment, etc? web pages offer different opinions, debunking each other.
>
> Should work fine as a drop-in replacement. I do recommend using noatime
> on flash file systems to lessen the wear on the SSD (all the filesystems
> on my netbook are mounted that way) but the other changes should be
> unnecessary. I don't use any swap partition on the netbook (and I don't
> have space for it on the thing's tiny 4GB SSD - I could put a swap
> partition on the SD card that is always installed if I really felt the
> need) but it has 2GB of RAM. If you want hibernate support you'll need
> swap space; suspend doesn't require it.

Yup, the Intel X25-M was a drop-in replacement for my ThinkPad T61.
Didn't bother with any special formatting or mount options. Worked
just fine. (Past-tense, because the drive has since been transplanted
to my MacBook Pro).

> The challenge will be to find a reasonably priced PATA SSD in the 2.5"
> form factor; most of them are SATA. They do exist however, or you might
> be able to use one of the 1.8" drives with an adapter.

Hrm, yeah, not a straight drop-in if you're talking PATA. Does the T60
really have PATA? My T61 is SATA II, I would have thought the T60 was
at least SATA1, though perhaps it depends on the age of the T60... A
quick googling suggests there do exist T60 SATA I models...

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