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!

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I have used an Acard AEC-7720U combined with a 2.5" 8GB Transcend SSD IDE drive with 2.5" to 3.5" convertor.

Even though Acard says the AEC-7720U does not support hard drives, I have got zero problems with the setup.

I don't know if it works with other SSD or IDE hard drives.

The Acard adapters I got were reasonably cheap, around 100$, but I bought them many years ago too, now they are rare.