Replacing a conventional drive with a solid state drive

[KSoD]

Unless you wish to buy a controller to be able to use the SATA interface, you wont get anything you want. Sorry but using IDE interface with a SSD will get you nothing. Everything that you gain by going to SSD will be lost in the transfer to your PC as IDE is the slowest transfer rate around.

So yeah, spend extra to get SATA and then a SSD or jsut get a 7200 RPM IDE Drive.

 

[jbc]

Even if I do put in the controller doesn't the mother board need to be designed for the SATA? Are there different types of controllers or just one type for the sata drives?