Looking to upgrade the SSD in my system, and I have an mSATA slot on my motherboard that is currently unpopulated. High capacity mSATA SSDs aren't very easy to come by these days, at least ones from a ...

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From time to time people have asked here (or in Mobile Computing) about SSDs for older laptops that use a parallel ATA 2.5 inch hard drive. Such devices exist, but there are only a few of them.

Over the mSATA or a SATA3 interface you may expect read speeds up to 540 MB/s and writes up to 430 MB/s depending on volume size of the SSD. For usage over SATA3 you'll need a converter of course.

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