23rd
May
2008
DIY Laptop Solid State Drive
posted in Technology, Hardware, Storage |The hard drive in my Dell laptop started acting poorly so I’m trying to replace it with a solid state drive. Being too cheap to go spend $600 on an “off the shelf” SSD I’m trying to make one using a CF->SATA adapter and a 32GB CF card. Total cost $160.
The only catch is it doesn’t work so far. The Vista install dies part way through “uncompressing files”. Same with XP. At this point I’m wondering if the problem is my CF card (RiDATA 32GB 233X) or the adapter?
Any thoughts? Anyone get this working? There is a really cool looking adapter that lets you use 3 CF cards, but its $180 and its only from geekstuff4u where the shipping to the US is another $45. I can’t find that part from any US place.