Hey, great video! I love seeing ssds into old laptops, to see their max potential! I would love to see an old thinkpad running modern (probably 32 bits) linux!
Thank you! Running 32bit linux on this ThinkPad T23 is indeed possible, but limited by the small amount of RAM and the lack of SSE3 instructions because it has a pentium 3 processor. So using modern software from apt-get often ends with an error :(. I think Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest version which has software in its "Appstore" that runs good without SSE3... But systems that are a little bit newer like the t4x series support sse3 which leads to a much more usable retro machine for modern software :).
That is the most adorable tiny ThinkPad I have ever seen😲😄 I thought this was going to be about putting an mSata drive in an old IDE laptop that has MPCI. but never knew there was IDE to mSata drive I recently got a 512GB DogFish mSata SSD to upgrade my Dell Latitude E6540. I can add 1 more with a slight modification to the internal chassis frame. The motherboard has 3 mpci slots, one for WiFi and 2 available for optional add in WLAN and Celular data cards that I'm not ever going to use.
Thank you! Putting an mSATA SSD into the mpcie slot of more modern laptops is a perfect way to upgrade the storage. However, in case of old laptops (as the ThinkPads shown in the video) mSATA is not supported of course :).
Very nice video. I'm waiting for a M2.SATA to IDE adapter to update an older Asus laptop. I was going for mSATA but got a cheap M2.SATA drive + adapter. It also helps that I have an M2.SATA enclosure to clone the old IDE drive. In those newer laptops you also update the OS?
Thank you! Laptops that are using the PATA interface are usually too old for a major OS upgrade. It would probably not lead to a great experience. I personally use the version of Windows that was originally used or some lightweight Linux distros on older ThinkPads. However, if the laptop has enough power to run a more modern OS -why not :).
I have two R50e ThinkPads. Both use those cheap "CY m-sata to IDE" enclosures with m-sata cards inside. Both report U-DMA mode 5. Have you tried a different chipset driver in your T23? Great video!
I decided to fresh install a long dead/super old laptop with a 7200rpm HDD and the results showed minimum: Read Seq: 37.96 MB/s Read Rand: 0.23 MB/s Write Seq: 35.85 Write Rand: 0.70 So seems the real bottleneck is the random read/writes which is the more common thing not sequential.
Thank you for your comment! Yes, you are right, when using a mechanical HDD you'll get slow random write/read performance. SSDs are much better in that regard.
Hey, great video! I love seeing ssds into old laptops, to see their max potential!
I would love to see an old thinkpad running modern (probably 32 bits) linux!
Thank you! Running 32bit linux on this ThinkPad T23 is indeed possible, but limited by the small amount of RAM and the lack of SSE3 instructions because it has a pentium 3 processor. So using modern software from apt-get often ends with an error :(. I think Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest version which has software in its "Appstore" that runs good without SSE3... But systems that are a little bit newer like the t4x series support sse3 which leads to a much more usable retro machine for modern software :).
That is the most adorable tiny ThinkPad I have ever seen😲😄
I thought this was going to be about putting an mSata drive in an old IDE laptop that has MPCI. but never knew there was IDE to mSata drive
I recently got a 512GB DogFish mSata SSD to upgrade my Dell Latitude E6540. I can add 1 more with a slight modification to the internal chassis frame. The motherboard has 3 mpci slots, one for WiFi and 2 available for optional add in WLAN and Celular data cards that I'm not ever going to use.
Thank you! Putting an mSATA SSD into the mpcie slot of more modern laptops is a perfect way to upgrade the storage. However, in case of old laptops (as the ThinkPads shown in the video) mSATA is not supported of course :).
Also useful with dreamcast that have been ATA HDD modded
Thank you for the comment. Yes, this should work with almost every device that uses the IDE connector :)
Very nice video. I'm waiting for a M2.SATA to IDE adapter to update an older Asus laptop. I was going for mSATA but got a cheap M2.SATA drive + adapter. It also helps that I have an M2.SATA enclosure to clone the old IDE drive. In those newer laptops you also update the OS?
Thank you! Laptops that are using the PATA interface are usually too old for a major OS upgrade. It would probably not lead to a great experience. I personally use the version of Windows that was originally used or some lightweight Linux distros on older ThinkPads. However, if the laptop has enough power to run a more modern OS -why not :).
I have two R50e ThinkPads. Both use those cheap "CY m-sata to IDE" enclosures with m-sata cards inside. Both report U-DMA mode 5. Have you tried a different chipset driver in your T23? Great video!
Thank you for your comment. Very interesting. I will investigate that, since I think I used the same cheap enclosure :).
Hmm the info about transfer is far from found on all the adaptors sold.
I decided to fresh install a long dead/super old laptop with a 7200rpm HDD and the results showed minimum:
Read Seq: 37.96 MB/s
Read Rand: 0.23 MB/s
Write Seq: 35.85
Write Rand: 0.70
So seems the real bottleneck is the random read/writes which is the more common thing not sequential.
Thank you for your comment! Yes, you are right, when using a mechanical HDD you'll get slow random write/read performance. SSDs are much better in that regard.