I'm amenable to this, given the very high price of the SCSI<->SATA adaptor. Two quesitons though:
1) Which Acard adaptor do you mean? The ones I've seen are also $200 plus (http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/).
2) I haven't seen too many IDE SSD drives around - got any specifics of models / availability? Ta!
@james1095. Thanks for the recommendations - I've just purchased a Seagate Savvio 10K.1 73.4 GB,Internal,10000 RPM,6.35 cm (2.5") (ST973401LC) from ebay, and a requisite 80-pin SCA to 50-pin SCSI adaptor and molex. There's a good Savvio review here: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/storage/savvio10k1a.html).
One seller is offering new drives of this kind on ebay, but I figure that with a 1.4 million hour MTBF, and that it's only been 7 years at most that the drive has been used (=61360 hours), there's still plenty of life left on the clock. It's also been manufacturer refurbed, apparently, which is purported to mean more than just a dust off and lo-format (yeah right!).