Well, apparently the SSD is too new for the older ATA specs in the Duo. However, I promised comparisons and I do have them.
Since it cannot be used in the duo, the benchmarks reflect the FrankenLat. It is a 1.3 Ghz PIII-M, 392mb of RAM, Windows 2000. This is my laptop for when I must work in the windows world or need something that is better done in the FrankenLat's native 1600x1200 than the Duo's 640x480.
Using the stock 4,000 Rpm 4 gb drive, boot time from selecting the partition in PLOP to the time I have a cursor and can login is 1 Minute and 4 Seconds.
Using the New Transcend SSD 4gb drive, boot time from selecting the partition in PLOP to the time I have a cursor and can login is a LIGHTNING FAST 29 SECONDS! It also logs in almost instantaneously. Unofficial since I forgot to time it with the old drive, but it now shuts down in 10 seconds rather than about 30-45 previously. Applications open probably close to twice as fast.
It is FREAKING SWEET GUYS! I highly recommend these to anyone whose laptop can handle ATA-6. You will not regret it. However, a word of caution: The drive response times are too fast for low-end IDE-USB adapters(like the one I ordered from china for 4$ :
). G-Parted continuously had IO errors when it was on the usb adapter. I solved this by putting the SSD in the drive bay and the HDD in the adapter and copying with G-Parted like that.
Oddly enough, this laptop from 2002-03 had a 4,000 rpm drive. The duo from 1995 has a 4,900 Rpm drive. Odd huh? (Apple>Dell)
Lastly, it's plain weird having the laptop be totally silent. Well, at least until this model's industrial CPU fan kicks in...
Since it cannot be used in the duo, the benchmarks reflect the FrankenLat. It is a 1.3 Ghz PIII-M, 392mb of RAM, Windows 2000. This is my laptop for when I must work in the windows world or need something that is better done in the FrankenLat's native 1600x1200 than the Duo's 640x480.
Using the stock 4,000 Rpm 4 gb drive, boot time from selecting the partition in PLOP to the time I have a cursor and can login is 1 Minute and 4 Seconds.
Using the New Transcend SSD 4gb drive, boot time from selecting the partition in PLOP to the time I have a cursor and can login is a LIGHTNING FAST 29 SECONDS! It also logs in almost instantaneously. Unofficial since I forgot to time it with the old drive, but it now shuts down in 10 seconds rather than about 30-45 previously. Applications open probably close to twice as fast.
It is FREAKING SWEET GUYS! I highly recommend these to anyone whose laptop can handle ATA-6. You will not regret it. However, a word of caution: The drive response times are too fast for low-end IDE-USB adapters(like the one I ordered from china for 4$ :
). G-Parted continuously had IO errors when it was on the usb adapter. I solved this by putting the SSD in the drive bay and the HDD in the adapter and copying with G-Parted like that.Oddly enough, this laptop from 2002-03 had a 4,000 rpm drive. The duo from 1995 has a 4,900 Rpm drive. Odd huh? (Apple>Dell)
Lastly, it's plain weird having the laptop be totally silent. Well, at least until this model's industrial CPU fan kicks in...