On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Simon Royal wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I was looking on eBay and stumbled across solid state laptop hard  
> drives.
>
> How much difference would they make to a laptops speed?

They are faster, but the main difference they make is battery life.  
(and the complete lack of moving parts)

> Can they be fitted
> to any laptop or are they only SATA? I couldn't find any IDE ones.

There are a couple IDE ones on this page...listed as 'Almost Gone'  
though, but clearly Transcend does make 'em.

<http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=414>



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