Transcend Has a PATA SSD For Your Aging PC
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There is a way to update an old PC with PATA/IDE SSD that have been announced by Transcend.

The PSD320 series is offered in a 2.5-inch form factor with capacities of 32, 64 and 128 GB.
According to the company, the SSDs are designed to replace traditional 2.5-inch HDDs to lower power consumption and increase read-write data performance. The drives are rated at read and write transfer speeds of 104 MB/s and 93 MB/s, respectively. Transcend said that the PSD320 drives support PATA, Ultra DMA modes 0-6, PIO modes 0-4, and multi-word DMA modes 0-2.
There was no information of pricing, but we were told to expect street prices to begin at about $70 for the 32 GB model.
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I'm guessing it doesn't. Most likely some kind of internal GC (garbage collection).
...Why?
but i can imagine there being a small (yet not insignificant) market for it, and transcend is smart for seeing this.
LOL
It absolutely is, except that this drive is the 2.5" format for laptops, you'll notice in the picture there's no 4pin molex connector. This is the only reason this thing would make sense since....
a regular sata interface can be adapted to pata with a cheap adapter and vice versa. like this:
http://www.meritline.com/ide-to-sata-or-sata-to-ide-adapter---p-36542.aspx
Eliminating the need for a specialized product like this.
This would only be useful for laptops, since it should carry a price premium for being a niche product, and the fact that it would physically fit in the laptop where there are space constraints.
Again bad idea. Since you'll typically be way better off just buying a new laptop, since laptops are cheap and your pata equiped laptop is practically obsolete by now, anyway.
Perhaps people want to breathe new life into their old machines.