ssd for laptop

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I'm thinking about getting a lower cost ssd for my old laptop however it doesn't have ahci support so I'm not sure which ssd would be best in a situation like that.

I know that will hurt performance but it should still be much better than the slow drive already in there.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
So this would be an IDE (aka PATA) notebook? Or something really early SATA that didn't have AHCI maybe?

PATA SSD's are very limited. In fact it might be cheaper to buy a Compact Flash to IDE convertor and put a 32GB or 64GB CF in there. It wont be as fast, but I guess you'll at least get the faster response and no noise benefits.
 
If it doesn't support ahci, then you'll get about 60-80% of the original performance of the SSD.

It's still worth it though as even the fastest HDD is only about 30% as fast as a SSD on average.

Make sure whether it is SATA or IDE, Intel's are good, but almost any SSD will work just fine.
 
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