Recently I made a wooden caddy for a CF/SATA adapter. The disk speed/experience is great. I'm a bit "distracted" with the current parts of 60 series hardware work on my list to buy older ones, so it's good that you do.
If I'm not mistaken, the original drives perform in the 20-25 MBs range. So even a USB 2.0 drive (30 MBs) should perform at least as well, but should be faster due to the higher access time.
I bought a ATA to mSATA adapter from eBay. It was difficult to find this particular adapter as the ATA connector is non-standard for this model. I am now using a Samsung PM871 128GB mSATA SSD with this laptop. Max RAM I have installed is 2.5GB. 1.99 usable as Intel GMA takes some.
I recommend not using SD cards as you can experience corruption with some OSs due to them not being true ATA drives. Compact Flash is the way to go, they work just like ATA/IDE drives.
I bought the same thing like you did. Ended up I can't install every single os because the OS does not detect the Hard Disk or SD to IDE. Help me, god.... sigh*
@@UltimateDIY nono, will it work?? Please please Please! I have tons of issues just to get it installing an os. I saw a video about almost the same thing like sd card but its weird and not an SD card. I couldn't afford that. The title called "IBM X40 SSD Upgrade". And I couldn't afford a 1.8 inch PATA IDE from Ebay which costs 300 usd only for shipping.
IBM Thinkpad x41 has 512Mb onboard memory, and single slot for DDR2 sodimm, but bios addesses up to 2Gb only. I tried to install 2Gb single module, that hide onboard memory and only 2Gb availiable. I tried to install single 1Gb module, that result 1.5Gb fully availiable. I tried to replace HDD and get error 2010 , needs to flashing patched BIOS for eliminating this error.
@@UltimateDIY Haha nice. When I saw the Profi lighter on your table, I immediately thought you must be somewhere in that area. Nice to see that there are still people all around the world who appreciate these old but good machines.
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Recently I made a wooden caddy for a CF/SATA adapter. The disk speed/experience is great. I'm a bit "distracted" with the current parts of 60 series hardware work on my list to buy older ones, so it's good that you do.
Hmm, wood, never thought of that, but it makes sense. Easy to carve, non conductive, light.
If I'm not mistaken, the original drives perform in the 20-25 MBs range. So even a USB 2.0 drive (30 MBs) should perform at least as well, but should be faster due to the higher access time.
It did work decently in the end.
I bought a ATA to mSATA adapter from eBay. It was difficult to find this particular adapter as the ATA connector is non-standard for this model.
I am now using a Samsung PM871 128GB mSATA SSD with this laptop.
Max RAM I have installed is 2.5GB. 1.99 usable as Intel GMA takes some.
Nice 👍🏻
how did you create the windows usb, I am having hard time with multiple isos and easy2boot. it always gets stuck on stage2
I recommend not using SD cards as you can experience corruption with some OSs due to them not being true ATA drives. Compact Flash is the way to go, they work just like ATA/IDE drives.
Thank you for the suggestion 👍🏻
I bought the same thing like you did. Ended up I can't install every single os because the OS does not detect the Hard Disk or SD to IDE. Help me, god.... sigh*
After about 1 year I bought a hdd 😄
@@UltimateDIY nono, will it work?? Please please Please! I have tons of issues just to get it installing an os. I saw a video about almost the same thing like sd card but its weird and not an SD card. I couldn't afford that. The title called "IBM X40 SSD Upgrade". And I couldn't afford a 1.8 inch PATA IDE from Ebay which costs 300 usd only for shipping.
IBM Thinkpad x41 has 512Mb onboard memory, and single slot for DDR2 sodimm, but bios addesses up to 2Gb only. I tried to install 2Gb single module, that hide onboard memory and only 2Gb availiable. I tried to install single 1Gb module, that result 1.5Gb fully availiable. I tried to replace HDD and get error 2010 , needs to flashing patched BIOS for eliminating this error.
Thank you for this info! ✌🏼
PROFI 🔥🔥
:)
Are you from Hungary?
Romania.
@@UltimateDIY Haha nice. When I saw the Profi lighter on your table, I immediately thought you must be somewhere in that area. Nice to see that there are still people all around the world who appreciate these old but good machines.
@@kosztaz87 for sure. Old tech is great :)
You can't upgrade the memory, accodting to it's specs 1.5 gig is the max.
You can't oficially, but unoficially with some headache, you can: forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41061&sid=36c1fb5e5b8370162af42845850d8469
hey, have you tried the custom bios for it?
www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_non-ThinkPad_hard_disks#Use_unofficial_modified_BIOS
Hi. No, I have not tried it.